I think that the price of silver keys is just too much, it's not that 750 CE is not worth for an accessory, but what are the odds to get a good one? i mean, i've NEVER seen someone with a mohawk, halo, wings, wolver tail, scarf,bomb bandolier etc (they say there are more undiscovered accessories)
i've opened a few lockboxes and i always get barrel bellies ,googles, maid headbands, game faces, helm mounted displays, canteen, and the like... and when i go to AH to sell them away i find there's a lot of them being sold (cuz they're too common) at really low prices, and that's pissing me off a little, how much CE do i have to spend to get one that i want?
people that get(i've only seen ghostly aura as the rarest accessory ever in AH) rare accessories sell them at extremely high cost(i've seen ghostly auras at 500k or even more) cuz almost NO ONE gets them, and the other common accessories just get stacked over and over... and worse if you get dusky, drab, fancy or regal colurs.
my suggestions on the matter:
silver keys: lower silver key's price for god's sake! ( 300 ce is ok for me)
Rare lockboxes, this is not my idea, i saw it somewhere in the forum: a lockbox that contains a rare accessory!,with same chances in the wheel as common lockboxes obviously.
equal chances: supress the accessories "rarity", so when you open a lockbox you have the chance to get any accessory (this'll lower the quantity of energy spent to get some cool stuff, and hopefully balance the prices in the auction house for all items) <---- highly recomended
player's choice: adding the option to choose wich accesory you want from the lockbox... or maybe not exactly choosing wich one you want, but choosing the accessory type would do.(helm top, aura, armor back, etc)
or maybe you can help, add any ideas if you like!
I posted this in another topic but it seems more relevant here:
the cost of a key needs to be low enough that the accessory can be sold for enough to make up for the cost of getting the key, with the chance to make a profit if your selling a rarer accessory, unfortunately there a few issues with lowering key prices:
1. SK is already flooded with unopened lock boxes because no one is opening them now, they have ceased to be a rarity
2. Lower key prices = more accessories = lower accessory value = same problem as now
3. People who paid 750 CE already may feel cheated if the price is suddenly lowered so soon after accessories been released
IMO if they want to make accessories a valuable item again, they would:
1. lower the key price to a CE price where the accessory can be placed on AH and actually expect to make a sale at least in parity of CE value (right now not many people are willing to fork over +50k for an aesthetic item, something like 15-20k for a common accessory may be more marketable)
2. make lock boxes even rarer then they already are on the prize wheel
... and my more controversial opinion:
3. remove all currently existing lock boxes and start over again (let those who already have accessories keep them), maybe compensate players with 2000 cr (can't be too high or the whole economy will crash) for each lockbox they currently have, it will cheese a lot of people off but if they only just lower the price of keys the flood of accessories may just bring us back to where we are now