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I agree with most of what you said, however I think people need to realize virtual economies can crash at any time. Its not a smart investment to put all your time/money into virtual hats, especially if your objective is to hoard the items until you can make massive amounts of money later. OOO should make the accessories bought from the supply depot bound, it would still effect the prices of the items, but people could still have the unbound versions as collectibles like the unbound bombhead masks. This would solve the prismatic auction issue as well.

deal with it

Hey if you wanted to make money on the items you've been hoarding you should have sold them. The trade chat has been filled with players looking for these items and you greedy bastards wont sell them. So thankfully OOO gave the players what they wanted...items you're not selling. Now we all can hoard them forever until OOO again puts them on sell for far cheaper than you greedy bastards will. Just goes to show what I've always been saying....an item is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it so all you hoarders just lost out big for one reason....you're too greedy!

I, as a player, am happy this happened (although it's going to take a lot of work to build up the 3.5-4kCE...), but from a larger view it does come over as a desperation attempt by OOO to get CE prices back up and keep the money flowing in. I was worried about this when they made elevators free, I hope it doesn't mean anything along the lines of "help guys we're not making money anymore".

lol Looks like f2pers get the large advantage with ye recent updates, all of ye get what you need, them super p2p players cant push ye around, now they be ragin their barnacles!!!!

Anyway, people who spent over 30kE for accessories, enjoy the butt-hurt, and the troll-burns, the rest of you, just keep on rolling, and feed those sprites, after all, it's not like having accessories is essential, you want em, but cant afford them? Then grind, the resulting look you compile will probably be worth it, especially since any endgame player couldn't care less about this, they don't want gear, they just want looks after gearing up. Don't like it? Quit and delete your knight, things don't stay the same forever, just like mist and heat.

I bought a proto bomb before rescue camp missions started to gift them for free.
And this one is even better. It comes with an UV! What am I gonna do now?

I want my 150cr back >:c

Divine valkyrie wings: 30k ce (got em cheap)... 4-5 months ago (thanks kyoshiro)

Volcanic Dragon wings: 22k ce (OPaid for em...)... 2-3 months ago

Seriously... OOO... WTF... why... I just don't get it...

I saw a squire with Infernal Guardian set with Volcanic dragon wings and it felt WRONG... because it is -_-

I just...

/keeps whining in the distance

First, I sympathize with the losses that many upper-end players probably went through.

I watched a few of my friends quit while the rest jumped for joy... o.o

Basically this promo is Very controversial. It's in favor for the newer players and is a major contradiction for the long-term merchants/vet players.
Regardless, Mixed feedback is still mixed feedback. In the end, it's all about how it affects the intended aspects behind the release of the promo.

Course, those were just my opinions; I intend no offense what-so-ever.

Face the facts, if OOO isn't making lots of money, then we won't be getting any REAL content any time soon. There are a lot of stubborn folks out there who behave really selfish. They are always thinking about themselves and what's best for them, which is totally fine, expected, and understandable. Would you prefer that the company goes bankrupt, and that the game then has to shut down because of our stubbornness? If that were to happen, then everything that everyone has worked hard for would be a major letdown for you, me, and just about everyone who has been playing the game for quite a while.

You need to see the real picture; don't focus on what is happening to you, but focus on what is happening to the game. If the game isn't getting money, then we will never have content for endgame players. Let OOO profit from this; it'll be great for the community and OOO. You got the stuff first, just think of it that way? okay? It's nice that you popped a lot of money on the game, but what good will it do to you if the game doesn't progress, or even worst, it has to be shutdown? what would you do then? complain on these forums that wouldn't exist anymore?

Things change over time; waddling in the past will get us nowhere. Changes are what brings us a future.

Yes your right, all those hard workers of the first players gone to waste!! But you also have to look at it in another view.!

If I was a new player I would love to own those things but seriously prismatic halo when would a new player be able to buy one of those !! New players should be given the chance to own them as we'll, spiral knights isn't about holding rare items and reselling yes people do it but still wasn't the main idea for the game, plus when people start equipping them, the less there will be around so the more the price will go up again!!

Also OOO needs to make money!! like myself I brought 20kce to buy these accessories.!

Bad luck if some one kept them to sell later and bad luck if you just paid over price for them, get over it! It's a game things happen!! Day and night still come! Earth keeps spinning around.

I personally don't really care. Granted, what I've spent the most on have yet to turn up in such a relatively cheap sum as this yet, but even if they were to I wouldn't really complain about it. The way I look at it, the money I spent way-back-when to acquire whatever-I-desired was a pay-to-have-early purchase. Some sort of privelege to have something most wouldn't. I won't claim that I anticipated something quite like this, but saying that it was completely unexpected would be an outright lie. You take a risk when you decide to invest, and you take a risk when you hold on to it for an extended period of time.

You can argue back and forth as much as you like about what you think of the entire situation but at the end of the day you took a risk and if you took the hit of it; tough luck. It happens to the best of us. But claiming that they should go as far as to "refund the potential losses" of those who stockpiled is bollocks. Why? Because they already got what they paid for. If they invested with the intention of reselling for great profit later down the road that's a risk that the purchasers made and is entirely their own responsibility - not Three Rings'.

Pretty much all of the complaints that I've seen about this update were all from endgame players. Everyone's so picky...(by update, i meant the whole big change with energy plus this promo)

It seems like no matter what OOO does, they are met with whining, criticism, and dire proclamations that the recent update has "killed the game". Just get over it man! The game is still fun! So many people take the economy too seriously. SK is a game you play for fun!!!

@Shidara Exactly!

[muffled prelude in c minor playing in distance]

I agree with OP. Reintroducing rare and expensive accessories and pricing them at 4k ce a piece made many merchants lose a lot of money. I feel really sorry for the person that got stuck with the prismatic halo for 1.3mil cr in the featured auctions. But Rating and Shidara are right, investing in expensive accessories and keeping them for extended periods of time with intent to make profit off of them in the future is a risk that you take. Economies can crash all the time, and once an investment goes bad, you take responsibility for it.

In my opinion, it seems as though the sale was just a desperate attempt to get energy prices up again, since energy lost virtually all of its value due to the recent battle sprites update. Regardless, as seen in some of the replies above, many of the lower-end or newer players are happy about it and are buying CE like mad.

dun be surprised if we can roll for random max uv at maybe 4k ce.

Still overpriced as hell. Won't be buying anytime soon.

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4k ce for a halo was too low imo considering market price for them.

4,000 Energy x 8,000 crowns = 32mil

So you mean to tell me that (roughly) 32mil is too cheap?

@misty-wellington It is currently 80 Crowns per 1 CE, not 8000 per 1 CE. That amounts to 320,000 Crowns. if it was 3.2m cr, this thread wouldn't exist.

My mistake.

But still, complaining about cheap prices?

+1 to shidara, he said it well:

'You take a risk when you decide to invest, and you take a risk when you hold on to it for an extended period of time.

You can argue back and forth as much as you like about what you think of the entire situation but at the end of the day you took a risk and if you took the hit of it; tough luck. It happens to the best of us. But claiming that they should go as far as to "refund the potential losses" of those who stockpiled is bollocks. Why? Because they already got what they paid for. If they invested with the intention of reselling for great profit later down the road that's a risk that the purchasers made and is entirely their own responsibility - not Three Rings'.'

Well, this was an interesting and sort of unpredictable (or well, yea) move by Three Rings I guess.

I see how merchants can feel cheated by it. However, when you've been sitting on an item for over a year and you get offers up to 50K CE for an item 'cause of its rarity and you decide that you'll just sit on it for even longer, you should know the risk you're taking. Three Rings has re-introduced items before, they'll most likely do it again. And they shouldn't be blamed just because you thought you could sit on an item and keep it away from everyone for all eternity.

After all. It's their game. They made the item.
Why shouldn't they be able to earn a profit off of the things they produced through actual work?

... Hope this funds some more fancy updates.