I'm with you 750 ce for a key lmfao wow con-men in action 000 you got to be joking right? no one will pay that i mean no one!

did they not learn from TF2 past mistake just wow!

Ha! As if threads like this ever influenced people.

I've spent more on armor that I use mostly for costumes, I'm sure others have too. The market will decide if this is a reasonable price or not. I've never bought a heat amp, I'm only slightly more likely to buy a silver key, but that is me.

Edit: the lockboxes are showing up on the AH quickly, they must drop a lot. I predict they will be close to worthless.

This thread is hilarious.

no one will buy this 750 ce put it as much of a ripoff as heat amp is and no one buys those so, They have to lower the price or this will just become more unused content

I'm buying five when I log in next.

I think the reason people are angry is because the price of even the least rare accessory is so innately expensive. It's very unreasonable and I feel 0 desire to obtain accessories with such a price. With armor costumes one can much easier obtain lower tier armor and bomb masks. Even the 5 star items are functional, compared to the accessories which add nothing.

750 is just too high for my tastes. I do have the money to pay for it, but, again, I feel no need to because they're so expensive in comparison to other things in the game as well as the comparison of the price to their pure aesthetics which add no use.

I'll agree with Culture. I've spent time leveling and energy to get gear just for costumes. Promos like Rose regalia and PAX prime codes sell for the price of 10-30 keys (7.5k-40k CE). While those were limited, and accessories technically aren't, the price for a key seems fair. And you can be glad it uses CE, not real money.

Since I've spent nothing more than 75 cents to have an alt on the same computer (back when there was a 75 cent option), I've never really bought CE. Now I sit on piles of it, and a key is still less than a silly heat amp. Seems fair to me, and I wouldn't be surprised if the price for keys went up due to the large volume of purchases.

You won't be buying a key? OOO probably doesn't care. You're part of the game that moves the market instead. Are you crying about accessories you don't care about?

I don't see the big problem if you want to look pretty and sxy irl its expensive its like that in Videogames as well.

I agree this greed has gotten out of hand

It takes a load of patience to play this game without spending a single cent on it. I respect those people.
The way things are going, the value of the crown will keep going down, there will be a plethora of people buying CE for the sake of getting these accessories that don't do anything but act as a Team Fortress 2 hat simulator, and then what?

Also, to everyone saying that it's only CE and we should stop complaining: Where do you think CE comes from? Real money. $$$. CASH. Dough. Sponduli. Green stuff.

Upon rereading, I noticed that items don't come out of the box bound to you, whoopsie. In that case, I am fine with this system.

Let's not get back into the old CE = cash argument. A giant thread didn't come to an agreement, so we won't here either.

Not that everyone loves keys in TF2, but the point is Valve is making so much money from key sales they don't care, and they don't need to. Neither does OOO. A key in TF2 costs $2.49, less than $2 in trade. A SK key costs about $2 based on the 7500 CE package. Everyone is free to whine, but you should definitely know that a large enough number of people will buy the keys (no, not because they are stupid, or sheep, as is always an argument that comes up in TF2). If you think posting your complaints so OOO will have a change of heart, they won't.

One thing we can agree on: [X] allow full inspect

And I will agree to one thing lestat just said: boxes will likely drop in value, once the initial rarity disappears. Sell them now! It took a while for TF2 crates to become nearly worthless (months), so don't expect it to happen overnight. For now, they are rare and mysterious! As for the TF2 equivalent of unusual hats, those will never come down in value, as I predicted at launch. No one believed me, people said unusuals would sell for the price of a regular hat within months. Nope, price went up instead. Minimum for an unusual now is 2 buds. Used to be 1.

Accessories will always be in high demand. One funny thing though is what OOO calls the "rare" accessories. The stuff that only works on specific armor. While rare, I don't think those will be as wanted as the "common" stuff that works on all armor. The reason being, they are like all-class hats in TF2 (i.e. unusual all-class hats). Those are worth more than most hats due to being so universally applicable, even if they are not made for a specific type of armor. Common items will have higher prices than rare items eventually.

Meaning if you dont like it guess what you have to destroy it waist 750ce nice!

What? You don't have to destroy it. You can trade it. Just hope it's something someone wants.

@Gell you cant trade it when it equipped to your Armour and how else do you know if you want it or not?

...you guys are complaining about the not-really-that-steep price of a little optional cosmetic feature? Really?

Njthug brought up a good point. I'd like to bring up one of my own: Many other MMOs have cosmetic items available, but only for a duration of 30 days, and with no way for a F2P player to get them. The accessories in SK give you a little more freedom than that.

Im siting next to m.Accessory on haven 1 and i tell you it impossible to move for all the people eager to spend there hard earned Crystal energy and get there highly sort after Accessories, i mean its like trying to get on a Tokyo train at rush hour i just cant move for people................

i was using sarcasm if it was not detected in my post!

So I kinda doubt it.

Look, I only started "playing" TF2 when I realized there's a market for this stuff in SK. :D
Not even making it F2P did anything for me.

Boycott: I WANT SOMETHING BECAUSE I FEEL ENTITLED TO HAVE IT BUT I WANT IT FOR CHEAPER.

I don't really "play" TF2. I can't because I have vertigo that prevents me from meaningful play of any fast-paced FPS (read: all of it). TF2 can be played as a "spectator sport" if you know what I mean. And after that, any items gotten can be sold out.

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By the way, I also noticed that this is also a stealth CE thread. :D

Anyway, boycott the keys, but don't ignore the boxes, even CE whiners and trolls like the original poster can't possibly say no to free crowns.

Even if boxes eventually sell for as low as 100 cr it's still free credits.

I'm with you 750 ce for a key lmfao wow con-men in action 000 you got to be joking right? no one will pay that i mean no one!

I'm probably reiterating previous posts, but oh well. You clearly don't play Team Fortress 2. Everyone said the same things when Mann Co. came about. Yet the sales of keys and other virtual products have made Valve so much money (probably more money than sales of the actual TF2 game) that it greatly influenced their decision to make TF2 free to play. Yes, people will pay that. In fact, people ARE paying that. I witnessed about eight box openings in just half an hour, in one haven. And even though Mann Co happened about a year ago, I still see many crate openings while I'm in-game. The mania will lessen, but won't end, and that's what OOO is banking on.

Edit: why the hell don't these forums have a quote feature?

250CE and perhaps I'll think about a silver key.

Or 10k crowns or something realistic for everyone. Noobs have no hopes of getting a silver key...

Or, you should be able to get a silver key in the clockworks.

people talk like they need to buy Skeys straight from OOO to use on the lockboxes when in fact all you need to do is pool the CE from normal dungeon runs into it just like you do for equipment over 2*

if you don't want, it don't get it, but for those that have all their desired sets of armor now can decorate them weeeee

the only issue i have is when removing them they get destroyed, that's not cool OOO

It's going to mess up the market.

750 wont be alot of energy when the prices go down because of this update.

Yeah u guys probably havent looked at it this way did ya ?:)

Accesories are more attractive to a large croud then u think. I was talking about them being bought from the auction houses instead(as you can actually pick ure accesory there) for great amount of crowns.