buy a pair of valk wings before this promo.

I'm not at all offended though. OOO never said that these items would never be reintroduced. The players assumed that they wouldnt.

I am very sorry for the players that paid a lot for them in order to stockpile and sell at a massive profit later, but to be completely frank, charging 20k CE for a -single- virtual shiny, which is about sixty dollars US, feels just as wrong to me as this rerelease feels to other players.

At the end of the day though, Three rings decides what and when they will rerelease items. I'm sure that at some point the inaccessibility of accessories to newer players must have gotten to them, because pricing at 20kCE per item was working for some sellers. That CE has to come from somewhere.

I looked at the pris valk wing price, bit my lip a little, then bought a pris halo. My feels are not caught. carry on.

Hello, Ezduzitt and Hellohippo - 2 of my favorite forumers.

Three Rings never has announced things like this ahead of time. They probably have some reason for that, but I have no idea what it is. I'm not much of a merchanter, but buying and selling is a fun and nearly unavoidable part of the game if you're trying to acquire some wealth in game as opposed to buying it with cash. Consequently most long time players have probably been burned like this before.

As stated above, the real pain is felt by those who have recently purchased these accessories from anywhere at much, much higher prices. I'm betting many of these players were not hoarding or investing, but simply wanted a really cool accessory. They got burned badly for making a good faith purchase, and my heart goes out to them even if they felt it was worth the money at the time.

[Edit] I forgot to mention that i was super-thrilled to get prismatic valkyrie and dragon wings as well as a prismatic halo so cheaply. And, yes, I had to buy some CE to do it.

Oh, I was also able to pick up a Sprinkle Aura for 400k while I was in a buying mood. Isn't that cheap for one of those? Where are they coming from?

Last I checked, there was no guarantee that these items would never go on sale ever again (barring the first Rose Sets), though it was very surprising to see the method of their return.

I suspect OOO is testing the waters to see if they get more money from Random Prize Boxes or from allowing players to cherry-pick what they want at (potentially) quadruple the cost.

Also I'm one of those people who have 10+ dragon and valk wings stocked before this update, though I'm not exactly using them as profit, more as leverage for other trades. I think I'm okay with this update.

Your merchant tears are delicious.

Just dropping by to play my miniscule gold-plated violin for everyone

This is all a matter of who gets to profit obviously. The buyers' plight was just thrown in to draw sympathy.
Maybe this should be a lesson for these 'rare item' merchants to set reasonable prices in the future? Those prices are atrocious.
And this 'Ruby' gets thrown in so casually like I'm expected to know of him. Was he someone who bit off more than he could chew?

People should also view this as a sign of things to come. THIS is how a FTP game SHOULD function, by offering shiny accessories to people who are willing to spend money on the game. I would bet OOO was taking notes on other FTP successes over the past year, because other games that offer awesome accessories for ~$10-$20 each make a killing off it, and people end up happy. This is good for the game's long term health. I would like to see NEW items in there soon, but I am also not opposed to seeing the best old accessories.

You forgot that these will go away by August the 13th. Lots of players will miss out on this exclusive promo.

Next year, many people will miss out.

What a travesty.

What what whaaaat? A marketing ploy to get people to want to BUY THINGS? WELL THIS JUST RUSTLES MY JIMMIES.

Your unwarranted sense of self importance amuses me The term 'travesty' wasn't even referring to you in particular. It was about this 'HORRIBLE' marketing strategy OOO deployed.

I can definitely understand where you're all coming from. I'm not rich enough for this to effect me personally though.

I'd just like to point out (again, because let's be honest, none of us are reading all these posts) that the majority of players simply don't have enough crowns/energy to waste it on such expensive cosmetic items; These items aren't going to become something everyone is wearing. Not only that, but once they're bound, they're bound. So there will always be room in the market for more.

And, unlike the Regilia sets where we were told about them being a one time thing, no one ever said these items wouldn't suddenly appear for cheaper. You took a risk, and you lost. That's part of the game. If you were rich enough to buy and hold onto a bunch of these, chances are your rich enough not to whine quite so much.

So, now that that's settled:
Get the @#$% back down there and open the core. You have a job to do, knight.

trav·es·ty - /ˈtravistē/
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What you said is still unclear to what or whom it was destined... The update is absurd? or what people think of it is absurd?

And I don't get what's the point of whining and being a travesty is... can you enlighten me?

Still don't know btw

Edit: All I said was that you're probably rich enough to not have to!

And you are right! lol I just whine a lot... like most people does, I'm just not ashamed of it... it's in our gene :D

Like I said I'm not mad anymore, I like the update actually. It was just hard to swallow at first -_- (oh god that sounded even weirder than what I originally thought) then I saw it was unbound so it makes up for it ^ ^

people should learn to read, instead of jumping the bandwagon and shout "stop whining" -_-

i bought volcanic valkyrie wings for a good amount of CE, it won't bother me because i have them since they came out...

but people who bought them last week do have a reason to complain (or people who wanted to sell them) OOO killed the econemy simple as that...
done things are done, but still it was a bad move on OOO's part (lot of players are going to be angry for it)

It's a promotion. It happens everywhere.

Didn't any of you buy something on a random store, only to see it on sale a week later?

This should have been said already but I'll say it regardless.

Did the investors REALLY think these things would not return? Did they think OOO would announce when these things would be available? Thinking that would be rather stupid. Promos are bound to return and probably in this form. Live with it, please.

EDIT: in any case, think for a while. How many players could participate in the high end accessory before? The answer is probably 1/10 000. Now? Maybe 1 in 200, maybe.

All the grind done in the past 756 hours of gameplay, nullifield by 20€ energy purchase. I am completely done with this bull[waste]. Before you move on to insulting me at least hear me out

Nerfing the enemies even in tier3 and elite mode, elite mode being just bullet sponge simulation trivializing any skillful gameplay. Adding dash was great, with a new tool like that you should have INCREASED the difficulty later on but no, slags can't grab, slags can be dodged with a simple sidestep completely trivializing any challenge with them, same goes for alpha wolvers and retrodes. Completely nerfed to a point where you can avoid all damage by walking around. The daily missions are hard, yes, but they are just a gear check aside from LoA. With 100% status resistance to the hazard of the day you can just walk through the mission and there's no challenge. Compare that to FSC and even with fire immunity you can get your ass handed to you.

This dumbing down of gameplay really killed it for me gameplay-wise but at least there were the accessory market and exclusive content that kept me playing. With the most recent update that goes out of the window as well. Now new paying users are indistinguishable from old users who have spent hundreds of hours into the game in order to unlock everything and grind themselves enough cash to get the rarest accessories. Not anymore. Pay 20 bucks and play the missions once and you are indistinguishable from a person who's seen all the content, played through all the runs and defeated every boss multiple times. Even the shadow lairs, most interesting content in the game, is locked behind a huge paywall. It was super expensive back then and now even more so, locking away the only runs where the the combat actually got me excited anymore. I thought I had enough when they made all the gear purchasable via CE, that killed the market of 5* weapons and armor in the auction house but at least there were the accessories but that's gone as well.

I understand that the business model was not sustainable without energy costs and player rates were probably slowly dripping away before that but I hoped you would find some other way...

I think this is it, I see no reason to come back to this game anymore. It was a fun run we had, had some great times with my guildmates and friends over the years.
Here are some random screenshots from the past. Thanks to everyone who made my SK experience just a little bit more interesting
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I'm so sad to hear another entitled merchant is leaving.

It has not all been cash grabs. They added mission system which was supposed to get new players to stick with the game and not quit instantly when their starting mist ran out. They tried making the arcade less of an issue because it used to take a lot more mist to get to vanaduke before the mission system. They streamlined and dumbed down the gameplay in order to keep people interested long enough to make a purchase. Apparently it didn't work as intended so they had to remove the mist completely to keep people playing. At this point we have a streamlined, dumbed-down version of the original product that has very few ways of monetizing. They hoped that shadow lairs would have kept people buying ce, it failed, it was way overpriced for even the lategame players. A non-profitable run that costs a fortune to manage and organize. It was a nice concept but the price was just too high for it to be sustainable

I spent a lot of money into this game over the years. It didn't make me rich but it got me started, I made myself a fortune by playing the game and trading up my stuff for profit. It took a lot of time and connections to have access to the rare stuff, now all you need is a couple thousand CE which is nowhere near the prices this stuff cost as new back in the days. All the exclusive and rare stuff is behind a small paywall. I do understand how this was a financially good move at least in short-term. All the stuff less dedicated users had looked up to over the past years is now available for just a few dollars, of course they will buy it right away if they have the chance. Too bad this causes absolutely unfathomable amounts of inflation. What's the point of having a ton of money if you can buy nothing with it? Well, I had no money, I had valuables, the have no value anymore. I felt that it was the safest way of keeping my money, crown and CE prices fluctuated from time to time, rarities were on a fairly steady rise of value

A dick move from their part, all I can say

I'm interested to see a gms response to the whole sale backlash.

I agree. The people who got royally screwed over were the tiny amount of people who stored their fortune in accessories and now lost pretty much everything. For majority of people this is only a positive upgrade. I don't even mind seeing rare accessories in the shop that much, I guess I just feel really frustrated about losing my fortune on a whim like that in a way that's completely out of my influence. One day just log in and see all your money gone

@Uuni
It is bad luck. But keep in mind that your money is not actually gone. You still have all your rare accesories, and people will still buy them when this sale is over. Not for quite as much perhaps, but it's not like you're going to end up broke.

@Ezduzitt
I'm fairly certain that one of the reasons OOO doesn't feel rushed to put out new content is because so many people are willing to drop large amounts of cash on cosmetics. If people didn't, and demanded more content instead of shinies, then OOO would probably put some out. But why do more work for less money? I'd love to see some new DLC. I would pay good money for some proper DLC. But from a buisness perspective, these kind of sales tend to be much more profitable. And profits are need to pay the people working on the content.

All this does is change the market from hoarders to focus on otger rarer stuff. All the people who speent tons of ce....sucks i gotta say. But it enciurages people with a life to play the gane and make it easier toclook decent, instead of seeing that one geek in haven with full hubter/surge/prismatic stuff.

I'm a veteran since 2011, and honestly, I love this sale.