ign: Jwake
spiral knights economic market rating: 66
spiral knights merchants in general rating: 79
auction house rating: 71
spiral knights bazzar community rating: 85
spiralknights/steam market rating: 62
comments: While even in the greatest of marking systems in games there will always be general complaints for self serving reasons (not saying that's a bad thing, I just mean to point out it does exist) I think the main point few points we have to remember is this is a "kids/teens game" and while it has turned into I think where maybe even 40% of the community is in their 20's or older, it caused gaps in how people deal with "real" like market problems and thoughts on how to compensate. Also while in all (mmorpg games) the game masters might like to cause a stir to keep us on our toes and to not have it become dull. I think overall that has been shattered in SK because it is just done too much at the extreme now. So while the big merchants got slammed, it also means that there is no stable way to tell how an item let alone the market is on groups of things to let new/mild merchants not get ripped off very easily. Of course these are just my own thoughts and opinions and you can weight them to your own however much/little you like.
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Rate the Spiral knight Economic Market: 50
Rate Spiral Knight Merchants in General: 50
Rate the Auction House: 60
Rate the Spiral Knight Bazaar community: 20
Rate the Spiral Knight/Steam Market: 20

Comment: The steam market is bad because it is small. The auction house is lacking in that its mildly disfunctional with the whole "medium"/"long" thing that ends with every single item being sniped. I don't like merchants in general. They are not here to be my friend, they are here to waste my time selling me goofy things. That said, the merchants are a thing and they do make up a part of the community and keep the game going, even if they're a bit ridiculous. The Bazaar community is alright sometimes, but there are many many sharks in that pool, and most of the decent items are way over priced.

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In-Game Name: Thegamerguy
Rate the Spiral knight Economic Market: 80
Rate Spiral Knight Merchants in General: 85
Rate the Auction House: 95
Rate the Spiral Knight Bazaar community: 20
Rate the Spiral Knight/Steam Market: 30
Comment: The only problem I have is with the Spiral Knight Bazaar community. In game I find many merchants to be rather cold and heartless; if your named price isn't higher than what they wanted, they immediately shoot you down. Many are mindless robots, rubbing spam throughout all three chats and even creeping into LD occasionally. Their only goal is to sell an item for twice of what it's worth, rather than to have fun and make friends in a game that deserves a little love. Merchants tend to form cliques, excluding others from their conversations until proven "worthy." This is one of the main reasons I don't delve into the merchant community- I'd rather help and befriend people than rob and exclude people.
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IGN: What do you think it is?
Rate the Spiral Knights Economic Market: 80.
Rate Spiral Knights Merchants in general: 90.
Rate the Auction House: 50.
Rate the Spiral Knights Bazaar Community: 45.
Rate the Spiral Knights Market: 60.
Rate the Spiral Knights Steam Market: 10.
Comment: I do a lot of selling and merchandise on my alts, and I get lot's of money off of it. I would call myself a decent SK merchant. If you see low price merchandise on the AH (Sprite food, Mod calibrators, Enamorocks) it very well could be mine. The good thing about the SK merchants in general, is the fact that they know what they are doing, and very little to none don't know what they are doing. And I agree with Arch on the accessory thing. Accessories much like LD are the only thing keeping the game running and keeps players like Mawa dumping money into Accessories. More of my profit from SK is from selling than I'd like to admit. (About 40%.) To do well in SK, you have to adapt to the economy. And it isn't too hard. The economy in SK, is one of the better things in this game. The auction house is pretty crappy I'll say. I have never won a bid. I avoid all thhing in the AH with only bid. Steam market in most games are crappy. Steam is generally crappy actually.

In-Game Name: Vanillateddy
Rate the Spiral knight Economic Market: 65%
Rate Spiral Knight Merchants in General: 70-75%
Rate the Auction House: 50%
Rate the Spiral Knight Bazaar community: 95%
Rate the Spiral Knight/Steam market: 10%

Comments:

My comments will have to do with my ratings and overall impresions with anything to do with trading. the thing is as i see it the Economy fluctuated a lot before the mist removal, why is this, honestly idk, i have only noticed it has moved around less now then it had then, then again im comparing a couple months to a couple years.. the other thing is that the Energy trade kind of heavily relies on either of two things, promotions or vanaduke/tier 3 earnings. lets not beat around the bush when someone wants money n they dont wanna pay for it, they will more then likely play vana (I dont need no hipsters saying otherwise, your the 10%). almost all money is earned there, people tailor sets so they can have a nice "Date" with Vanaduke.

Merchants, your either apart of that club or your not, thats how i see it. Merchants are people who understand others needs and wants, they know how to read a book basically. Sure someone may pick up a book and learn something but unless your an elephant you wont remember it. merchants to me control the market, well not honestly but they can sway it this way or that. if something changes in our market they have bells and whistles that tell them so, they keep an eye on everything. these people are more then likely not kids.

The auction house, boy o' boy, this is probly something merchants have hated and or loved in the past couple of months, along with the supply depot, lets face it, its kind of a part of the auction house. one, after having introduced the featured auction house merchants rose up in anger over how some of thier greatest collections and money making items were basically thrown out every week to lions who eagerly awaited feeding time. now we can say we mostly have gotten used to this, feeding. but some will still despise it for giving out precious items such as gen 1 rose sets n the like, as they see it as there show of seniority or support in the game for a long time, as for me, i know who those people are, i frankly dont care. on the other hand the biggest blow was flash sales. ohohoho god did people panic, ive never seen so many people try to get rid of priceless items like i did then, of course i did buy some items off these flash sales and also soon after for the things i missed. but in all honesty i didnt see something like it coming. sure people enjoy all thier new shinies but others wish they had sold thiers sooner or even waited to buy. i mean if i think about it prismatic valk wings were very prestigious things going for 60-70 even 80+ CE at least i believe that was them. n now you can get them for what? less then 20k? it was a big strike to merchants but even worse to buyers.

Auction House Part 2
yes i needed another part, this mostly has to do with the auction house however, things like time, very long long short very short, this is the main reason I WILL NOT BUY FROM THE AH. i dont know how long something is actually going to take. i might not be on for a couple nights after the last time ive seen something. actual times would be much better not just so i know but because it would make people more patient untill the end where war will break out for an item, but thats how it should be, you dont go to a car auction not expecting someone else to bid. so sure you may have a battle at the last minute but at that time you have to be willing to throw an extra grand or to down to deter the opposing force.
As for other things ide honestly like a watch button, something that will allow me to watch the price of something or even just keep tabs on something so i can get the mony i need be it a quick energy trade or me going out to grind it all up in time. sure i said i wont buy from the AH well its a lie, I'll buy, when theres a reasonable buyout. either way I'de like to keep tabs on thing or even see the final sell price of something on the AH so i can keep it for records.
Preview, i know we got previews but the thing is i can change my costume while looking at the thing i want to preview, i first have to
eave the Ah then come back with the correct costume... why? bachemel dont care if i strip in front of 'im, why does the AH care? gimmie a better changing room...

bazar: besides not having an instant reply like ingame when on trade chat its probly the best merchant and buyers expieriance i've had.and shortest comment...

steam market: Super flawed, thats all i see when i look at the sk market on steam, recently when i went on there because i heard of steam only costumes i was like ouuuuhhh, i was very disapoint. metal wolver, god not just the fact that we need another overused pile of reskin crap, but its the most overused pile of armor too. dragon = Sexy to a point. not only is it another reskin, but its also soooooooooo cheap... .05$ really five of my pennies? i could have bought these for 5pennies. n they were selling for 30k cr and more when they were first seen. im actually really glad i dont care for marketing, my friend did though, he bought a lot of them maybe 50+ sets n guess what he sold them all, his profit well its sad honeslty he made probly 2-5 bucks each set in the beggining till he had 20 sets left then he was still making an awsome 50k cr each set and he's out of them now, in my opinion thats really flawed, but hey good for him. ohh and uhh Steam well they didnt make alot off it but they sure made OoO some money. them iron wolf tail man.

thats it? hmm i was having fun talking about things i barly know anything about... sorry bout grammer n stuff i rely to much on auto correct so when i dont have it, well my grammer sucks.

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Rate the Spiral knight Economic Market: (Score of 1 - 100. 1 = Market is Absolutely Awful/Slow; whereas, 100 = Market is Superb) 50-70, depends on who's online

Rate Spiral Knight Merchants in General: (Score of 1 - 100. 1 = Very Bad for the game. 100 = Very Good for the game.) 60-90, varies a lot depending on how old the knight is (not the person behind the knight but SK knowledge)

Rate the Auction House: (Score of 1 - 100. 1 = Not Worth Using. 100 = Very Useful) 90 if not 100. Know how to use it!! I became rich thanks to AH

Rate the Spiral Knight Bazaar community: (Score of 1 - 100. 1 = Just plain bad. 100 = Welcoming and nice.) I haven't been there much... but it looks nice... I heard Raptor-zy makes Thread there so it can't be bad...

Rate the Spiral Knight/Steam Market: (Score of 1 - 100. 1 = Terrible. 100 = Fantastic.) 1. What Steam market? the one with 5 items in it? Or are you talking about Steam trades? (regardless of the answer, it's still 1)

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I don't play much SK. I left it but I have been merchanting for the past... IDK last year? I met a lot of wonderful people (like Raptor) and the core of the market is gold... once you get to know them and don't hate on them just because they have more money than you do. I think the average players won't get to go beyond the "I want this. Thanks, bye" to know who are behind those sellers and that's a shame. A lot of merchant left the game because of the choices OOO made on their own regarding SK economy. We had no power over it (Mist update changed a lot in the UV section where I don't belong and SD flash sales killed me and the accessory, usables and costume part of the SK economy). To take over a 50% loss ratio and having bought items 30k ce and 3m cr to see them at 7k ce is sickening. The biggest slap a dev has ever done to me (and probly ever will. Diablo III was a joke but it was made by a RTS guy, which explains a lot of thing).

A lot of older player still hang around Haven 1 and 4 but I see a lot of them on other games... Since I have them on my Steam friend list ^ ^ But we all come once in a while to check on SK and hope that someday we will enjoy ourself again... Someday... Somehow... we hope the game won't die because we love it. But... I have come to the fact that SK won't change and that there is nothing we can do about it. Maybe they will fix it? But for me I put SK on hold and are having fun with Loadout.

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