CE Prices are too high!

Ha-Ha Psyche! :D
This thread is actually about a couple of questions that I have after getting back on Spiral Knights after my hiatus.
1. Since when did heart pendants become to cheap?
2. Why are Iron Lock Boxes suddenly more expensive?
3. Did the price of accessories change? (raised/lowered)
And thats pretty much it.

Why would you bother BUYING heart pendants when it's far cheaper to craft them?

1. They're craftable using Krogmo Coins. They're probably the cheapest trinket now, as a matter of fact.
2. People went on accessory sprees? The drop rates got changed? Frankly, I don't know. The prices often fluctuate, tbh.
3. The prices of accessories haven't really changed that much.
Also... I think the eternal cry of SK forums is always 'CE price is too damn high'.
Unless it's 'CE price is too damn low'.

@Aureate
Thanks for answering those questions. I didnt know you could craft em.
And I made the thread title like that as a joke. lol
EDIT:
@Batabii
Well I think I got a fair deal since I bought a 2* heart pendant for 500cr :D
EDIT EDIT:
I meant to say that I bought a 1* heart pendant for 500cr, typo :S

Lockboxes now drop in missions, which they didn't before, which made them VERY rare.
So now they're about as common as they used to be.

Wait, lockboxes drop in missions now?

I don't pay attention to those anymore XD Good to see they're in missions, I guess.

@pyrosaber wow I feel bad for the idiot that sold that. It's probably worth 500 CE. (given the unbind cost too)

A two star heart pendant does not bind on craft. There was most likely no unbind fee.
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