Well, it is really hard for me to come up with new rants about the update, this patch is infuriating, let's all to be honest, now you can't even buy some energy along with the boxes, just a boxes full of crap. Why bother even making suggestions about fixing RNG? I have said time and time again that OOO cares little about what the forumers have to think, we are the least of his concern and this poem reflects that. You can either scroll through 3 paragraph worth of my tumblr emo grade ranting or read a simple poem, I am sure you will prefer the latter.

If the promo items were added to the supply depot as well for set amounts of CE that would just raise the crown to CE market since the rich players would just buy CE with their crowns to get what they wanted instead of giving OOO money for a chance to get what they wanted.

I think it's less "OOO doesn't care about the forumers" and more "OOO is trying something new."

They did free boxes with every $10 purchase for a while, people complained. They tried boxes being sold for energy on the supply depot, people complained. Now they're trying boxes $4 a piece or 5 for $15, and once againnn people are complaining. There's literally no way to please everybody, but maybe this might be doing the economy some good in ways that isn't immediately obvious? I like new things.

OOO is still getting money in ways other than energy purchases, and yet energy prices dropped nearly 500 crowns in a matter of hours. (And people complain about energy prices whether or not they're going up or down or holding steady, so there's no pleasing the forums there, either.)

From: http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/99479#comment-902446

The issue that sticks out to me is that the energy system is largely unnecessary at this point. Our best bet for selling things fairly and cleanly and well are the costume boxes that regularly come out; all else might as well be sold for crowns due to the likely discrepancy between money being spent purely on costumes and money being spent on every other facet of the game.

Called it.

@DJ

Or you could perhaps talk intelligently about the box promotion, i.e. defend your position; there have been many arguments against "OOO is greedy+evil and is milking us."

For starters: The program team is down on members, and hiring new programmers means that they have to read up on stuff and that a good one must be found. The art team almost always works far faster than the rest of the group, so making promotions in the mean time-- especially those that primarily reuse existing bits of costume and such-- are effectively free in terms of time.

I could, before, pay 30 dollars and get 3 tries at items I wanted. Now I can pay 30 dollars and get 10 tries. Granted I'm not gaining anything really all that special, but it's a factor that made me want to spend money on the boxes.

That plus this is the theme I've wanted forever, so I'm super happy right now!

The promotion to sell boxes exclusively should be added on top of buying energy and getting boxes for it. Please everyone.

OMG YES!
Now all we need is Lunatic Eyes...

Kagome, kagome.

This could quite possibly the most important promo ever, ever.

Someone people wanted boxes but not energy, so now they get to put their money where their mouth is. If enough people end up voting with their wallets with this one, there is a chance that traditional game taxes could be retired in favor of purely non-game cosmetic taxes.

We have seen steps in this direction with the removal of play tax (elevator fee AKA the poor noob tax); reduced crafting tax with orb drops (not so much at the lower end but massively for the 5*); and the introduction of rare accessory don't-destroy tax (something that could have been possible from lockbox day 1, the surprise box helped reseed the pool after 2+ years of destruction and natural player loss). That being said, it seems like the new Vanguard tax (Radiants) was implemented as a way to fill the gap between the traditional game tax era and the hypothetical non-game cosmetic tax era.

While I don't expect this to actually happen, if the numbers that come out of this box sale were extraordinarily good then the option would have to be considered. I will say this though, the game 'plays' better when you don't have to manage taxes all the time.

The experiment might be a success, a failure or not much of anything at all, but I suppose I gotta give credit where credit is due:
Thanks OOO for giving it a go.