There are ways to cater to newbies without harming the economy. If an item costs 5k TC on release then everyone's happy and no damage is done. If you're heavily discounting a previously expensive item or releasing a limited item to torishop, all of a sudden you're ruining the "investment" to anyone who owned it prior. This can cause damage in many ways.

By releasing limited items toribash staff created an economic bubble of sorts, and now it is being violently crashed. This inconsistent economy prompts people to panic and sell off everything they have, and in this scenario it means there is too much supply in relation to demand. This in turn stagnates the flow of the market, meaning it will only stay the same or keep plummeting until something is done to recover it.

I'm sure a business or marketing major could explain it in way less confusing and more accurate way, but I hope you can understand why that's a bad thing.

I would still like to hear an official oppinion about this. A plan, or its just gonna be random like it is.Or should we just expect that items will be priced without worning or reason.


Also to all the people reding this, i dare you to post your oppinion about this, and your input on how this ia fair or not.

I had to work for my 128 head, these kids don't know how easy they got it. In all seriousness, probably not a good idea to be retroactively lowering prices. Though that example in particular wasn't too bad.

I totally agree.
Back in the days when I was a marketer I lost around 1kk in value.

Items should have fixed shop prices and have their actual value to be influenced by the market. However I agree to the idea of restocks, although we should know if an item has a fixed stock or not.

Bumping this, Insanity truly has a point regarding supply-side economics in the market. Saturating it with rare items ruins the point of limited edition stuff in tournaments and seasons.

http://forum.toribash.com/tori_shop_item.php?id=2931


What is supposed to be limited edition? I seeit;savailable on shop for tc and shiai tokens...is it no longer a limited edition?

The market is now dead. What used to be a 50/50 ratio of selling and buying threads is now more like 90/10. Whoever is in charge of the market really outdid themselves here. Not only did they ruin the market, they also failed to address one of the biggest ongoing community concerns. We can only speculate why, but I assume admitting that you're doing something wrong would mean you would have to get off your high horse for a moment.

It's been almost 4 months and there's been zero response to this from any people in the know. Even if you disagree, voice your disagreement (along with reasons why). Don't just stay silent.

Not good enough. Engage with your community.
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In addition to that, use of dev tags (Elevated/Implemented/Will not be implemented) have been entirely discontinued since June. We implemented the tag system for a reason (transparency) - Use it. Show us we're being listened to.

Still nothing? Most recently I just noticed Sharko the Shark, an old rare item is now available for 50k tc, so it reminded me of this thread. Still very relevant issue so I'm just gonna bump

I agree. I feel like atleast there should be a committee of well established marketeers to vote on a price that would be good for the item