No

If we're gonna have rage threads again with people pointing out AGAIN that this happens EVERY TIME and then it will NATURALLY LOWER but you people WONT LISTEN.

Then for all I care let it break 8k.
Now.

The 'problem' with SK is the world is not a perpetial motion machine of game play, the potential for the environment to seize up always exists if no one wants to inject CE into the system. It's like an arcade game, someone has to insert a coin somewhere otherwise all you get is the demo (no progress pass 2*). Is this common with other MMO's?

The elevator pass demo event was an intresting experiment, now that everyone had a taste it might lead to more passes being sold. It is possible, but presumably improbable that this could imply a change of the revenue method.

There is a game mechanic that exists right now that could be repurposed to full the CE hole if that were indeed true - Crystal crunching. Suppose instead of redeeming minerals for 2 or3 cr each, we get energy from those crystals.. Right now they feel like an artifact from an earlier phase in game design and the Treasure Vaults even more so. Perhaps that was an idea that was passed on when the game introduced its revenue stream?

All I know is I find the elevator pass a more rewarding buy than CE - a month of It-Just-Works dungeon crawling Vs. Hoping to have something to show for it when it's all gone

Threads like these make me mad >:( Never have i once bought CE with real money, i mean seriously you can be full 5* like me without buying but do we need people to? Yes. Will the prices go down? Yes. It's a circle; A special offer such as dragon wings and mirrored lock boxes when you buy CE lowers it value. Once the offer goes away, after a week or so prices go up, and end up higher than they may have been before. Advice: If you dont want to buy CE with real money, then WAIT. I promise you there will be another special offer sometime pretty soon and the prices will go down. I would also suggest selling whatever CE that you have before the next offer.

"If we can get enough supporters the prices in the market might lower."

How is that so? Its like those magic Facebook likes? If you click enough the magic of internet will make food and water appear in third world countries?

We get enough supporters and CE price magically drop?

"If we can get enough supporters the prices in the market might lower."

Might I ask you to go to that search bar, type in "CE petition", hit enter, then realize how much you have failed.

There has been (someone please give the link to him) a petition on this, that went on for about 5 pages pleading to lower the price.

AND ONLY 3 PEOPLE SIGNED IT.

Honestly, these CE threads accomplish not much more than a few laughs from those that know how the market works.

EDIT:

@Trae
you forgot

3) Wait for the next CE promo / big update.

I hope you are correct.

~The Mighty Cheese Knight; WeeGee

It is funny how people say to wait for the next CE promo, looks like OOO has to cater to the energy buyers instead of dealing with the current CE real money purchase prices. Why should OOO make CE promos? Just support the game like you do usually now, or else you won't have any purchasers later on, or at least way less people.

Don't avoid the fact that the people that are rising the Crowns > CE price are slowly locking the market to people who already are set up in the game. Those people should also think that they are scaring away all those newbies that just entered from the last patch.

To whoever thinks this needs to go on, please reconsider. And no, I am ok actually with the prices, I could actually afford them, but I know many, many people who don't. And I actually stopped buying energy more than a week ago... along with, all the guild I am into.

@Swaggdamax

http://xkcd.com/605/

I can only assume they'll go back down now that the free elevator event is over...

@Aumir

Oh that's what you mean.

I'm pretty sure they tried that at one point. They had it so you got 40% more energy with every purchase. I recall the CE price barely moving though, going from like 7.1k to 6.9k for a few days.

You disgust me. Please think of economics before you post a comment that is entirely unfounded. Currently many players are leaving the game because of D3 or other reasons. These players want ce so they can buy steam games so they sell their gear. People who want to buy their gear need to buy CE which raises the prices. Once these players leave and all their items are sold CE will go down. Next time don't mindlessly post inflammatory comments.

Also to the OP: I don't think that the players who mainly complain about it (f2ps) can make such a huge difference. Some p2ps actually prefer CE to be higher.