Hm... I'm tempted to join...

I have 1000 CE right now that I payed 2852 a piece for. If it goes up to 6000, like you said...

*uses computer calculator*

Holy crap, DO THIS.

::Converts all his crowns to CE::

[Edit: the thread below shows many signs of momentary silliness. -.-']

Njthug, let me see if i got it: are you doing this just because everyone is complaining about how much expensive the CE got? I don't like threads of players crying to make in game market "fair" to non-paying players either, because they completely forget that OOO is trying to profit. This way, I think that paying two bucks a month would be a thank to them, if not a moral obligation (at least to me).

However, I think trying to raise up CE prices in market makes you as crying baby like them, in an opposite direction though. I respect you too much for buying garbage from us (and i didn't know you actually sell CE at lower prices), and I really really really thank you for your kindness (I'm not being sarcastic, believe me). But you're not making things fair too, neither being freindly to beginners, but somewhat elitist. I don't think t2 or t3 players would break a sweat cashing up 6k, but the t1 will do and do a lot.

Until now, I'm a free player. I had some financial disagreements recently, but I don't think the real life prices of CE are that expensive. everyone who can pay for internet services can throw away $5 or $10 monthly, I think, so myself being a payer in some near future isn't a difficult task.
But you forget that not everyone can pay as much as you, and everyone who can throw a big amount of real cash on CE doesn't even need to sell them for crowns. Big time payers control the market structure, indeed. But doing this is not controling: is dominating! It's to dictate the price and to force the players to pay (which I think it should not be forced, but done by free will to invest and thank the developers for a really good game, or - in other words - to pay because we want, not beacuse we need). You're doing all this without a real need, otherwise the complaint of some silly players whose best approach to take against is to "/ignore" their posts. The righteous will pay for the sinners. Do yout think it's fair? Or do you at least care about it?

Sorry if I offended someone, because I wasn't meant to it, especially towards you Njthug. And forgive me if I'm not as fluent on English as I should be. If I said something that seemed messy, tell me and I'll try to correct such sentence(s).

Thanks for the patience. Fell free to correct my feelings or thoughts anytime. =)
(No, I'm not being sarcastic here too.)

[Edit: I've already apologized to Njthug]

ILHedgehogs, see post #3, where he says this is a joke.

This is hilarious.

Edit:

I'm still laughing.

Well, it makes all I've said pointless then... I just can't express how I'm really sorry about this. I didn't get the joke (maybe my bad English, or I simply wasn't in a good mood to get it), I tought Njthug was serious. And to make things worse, yesterday I crafted a cutter for a brute core, only for not making it for free. Actually, I liked to help with this weapon (later, I traded this core for 50CE with the same guy). I do some business with Njthug occasionally, and also yesterday we have discussed - believe - about fairness of pricing things. I replied this post because it just wasn't like he seemed to be. I thought he has become revolted or something with these threads (and they're revolting, indeed) and he hasn't seen the consequences of this act.
In short, I tried to say "it's nice to be nice, even if some people discourage us with their complaints, so don't give up, keep it up." That's not the case, thankly. So Njthug, again, excuse me for that. As I said, I was not meant to offend you, nor anyone. In fact, nice guys like you helped me in beta, and they inspire me to be nice with others. =)

And that will get me about 2 full dungeon runs. In subscription based MMO's, I can get as many runs as I like for about $0.50 a day.

LOL Njthug your hularious! Im so glad to see this post over all newbs whinning about CE costs and its barly even broken 3k yet. Haha. Your very right tho, prices WILL raise and we are totally bound to see it hit around 6k or more very soon.

@Matoro Not quite, he's just stating a fact of supply and demand. With high demand for CE and only so much on the market the prices will rise. Also, this isn't like RS because this is much harder to bot for money. With limited energy (Hopefully) bots won't be able to be as efficient, which now that I think about it is irrelevant, because CE comes from real money, not crowns (it doesn't just appear, people have to buy it first).

If you seriously think a dollar here and there is expensive, you need to get off that chair of yours and actually do some work.

And sorry, free means exactly what it is, you get to play with limitations since this is a PRODUCT to sell. You're delusional if you think the developers of this game made it just for us to enjoy freely. You can accept that notion and play, or you can quit and attempt to find another "Free" game to play.

Just makes me wish I had bought more of it when it was under 2k per 100. Would be living off of that still, maybe even selling some for big profit in the near future!

Unfortunately, this is a purely competitive market. Trying to fix the prices just isn't going to work.

O I c wat u did thar.

This is the most stupid thread. You see, if the price of CE goes up to one point ppl will stop buying it because it doesn't worth it anymore

and then u fail badly

...the answer to #1 is that it won't work since there's always someone willing to sell for less than you are for virtual goods.

It's likely (and I say likely because as with any economy, it's impossible to accurately predict, since it involves the wildly varied personal motivations of large groups of people) that the inflation is a result of the influx of (a) new players since the game is new (and the resulting crowns and materials produced as loot for said players) and (b) initial cash purchases by the aforementioned new players. Forces A and B are countered by (among other things) (c) money sinks: vendor-bought items, particularly of the time-delimited kind, like trinket and weapon slots, and (d) the undercut principle: players selling virtual items at no real cost to themselves (aside from time spend playing a game they enjoy or real money that is already spent) are more likely to undercut the going rate for said item.

As the game ages, the rate of increase of A and B are guaranteed to slow (but hopefully not stop), while the rates of increase of C and D will either remain steady or increase. There's other factors at work, of course, but the point is without some form of actual control, individuals are mostly unable to affect these variables, and it's virtually impossible to amass the number of individuals necessary to affect them for more than a temporary bump, during which you'll have to continually fuel the effort with real dollars.

what? There was a discussion thread active about CE prices. Not much whining there though.

Nothing in life is free. Nothing. Today you have learned a valuable lesson.

Nice necro, moonsoon. Fortunately for me, I just managed to hit the point where weekly sways in the market won't influence how I play.

I'm glad, too.

I spent about 2x's that today on some clothes its life. Spending the amount I did in this game does not affect me at all it amuses me that people care about my spending habits more than my parents or myself.

Nice job, bragging about spending a large amount of what is apparently your parents' money. Nothing impresses me more than when people blow away on useless stuff money that they haven't earned themselves.

So since $400 isn't a lot of money to you...

Do you wanna be my sugar daddy? I'll take 1k CE a day.

Not high enough!

Oh, so you're the idiot who made this game inaccessible for new players and is soon to make running the clockworks at all result in a net loss of crowns.

Kudos for breaking the system :P