This actually happened on Haven 76 when 2 guys were discussing how they piled up lots of CE when the price was 7k to resell and now they were losing money.
Laughed so hard I think they reported me.

No offense, but if you're P2P you don't need to make a profit. Just buy it all.

I still don't get why anyone would sell CE when I can honestly just make more money in a clockworks run. Why haggle with the players, unless you're a bad player and can't really make more than you buy on CE lol. And you my friend are a troll among trolls. Majority of SK are F2P, I am both in a way but I mostly support F2P over P2P. What we need OOO to do is for them to be in control of the god daRn economy. We are running the game basically. When will they get that DEMOCRACY IS BAD. IN REAL LIFE, COUNTRIES ARE SUPPOSE TO BE BY THE REPUBLIC, MEANING THREE RINGS IS THE GOVERNMENT AND THEY NEED TO BE IN CHARGE OF THE ECONOMY OTHERWISE THE GAME WILL GO IN CHAOS AND THEY'LL LOOSE THEIR PLAYER BASE. I'm waiting to see who's going to rise and become our spiral dictator once this game becomes a communistic game. *laughs maniacally*

I still don't get why anyone would sell CE when I can honestly just make more money in a clockworks run.

Many people who have money to buy CE do not have as much time to play. So, when they sell their CE for crowns on the exchange, what is really happening is that they are paying other people to play the game for pennies[*] per hour. In theory, both sides get what they want, F2P get CE, P2P get a boost to the game that lets them get around a bunch of grinding.

More important, OOO gets what they want. I suspect that the vast majority of people who have paid real money to OOO have done so only after playing the game for free for several days, if not weeks. The more F2P players there are, the more P2P they will get. F2P players also give free word-of-mouth advertising, make the game look more interesting because there are more people, make the PvP games more fun, make the AH prices more stable, etc.

[*] depending on which which typical CE package is bought, what the cr<->CE exchange rate is, how quickly the typical player can run floors, how many crowns the typical player earns, etc., it appears that F2P are paid somewhere between $0.10/hr to $0.50/hr for their crowns. Cleaver has said that the typical Puzzle Pirate F2P earns around $0.25/hr, but that was a few years back, I don't know how much that has varied.

I will never understand management and marketing. Companies complicate me. I am so glad I am not doing accounting and instead becoming a teacher someday/sometime soon. But that's a bit sad. Neither both sides can ever truly be satisfied. One has to suffer in order for the other to be happy. And this cycle shall continue.

& @ Nicoya-Kitty
First of all, us F2P players are giving YOU our crowns to buy YOUR CE that YOU are SELLING. Just because we stopped buying CE doesn't mean you have to go and throw a fiss. We all got energy passes too now so we don't need to buy your crummy CE prices to do runs anymore.

This topic was just made as like a counter for the ce whining threads. Like the Grievos-Soveirg thing.

Try not to take it personally.

Did I get it right :D?

The ones complaining about CE prices of them being too high and how it's not F2P anymore are just a bunch of niblits wanting everything to be free to them and that everything in SK is unfair. F2P is what it means = FREE TO PLAY. Tyvm now eat my throwing chairing skills! *throws you a chair and does the little dive while screaming "Boswickkk!!"

Kudos for that, good guy.

As if anyone can tell sarcasm through the internet. Pssh I'll show you what a true parody thread is.

Hope you guys realize this is a Satire...

*manically giggles*

I approve.

~Newg

Prices are at 7k and rising... thank you for making more mad F2Pers. How are we to fight the complainers!?!?!? (Im F2P)