Is there a better solution to make them available, and yet, not screw over people who bought them in the past?

I see these things as long-term goals. Things that in the long run, are going to be motivation to play the site long-term, and this is seriously a thing this site was lacking.

No hard feelings, I mean, we can go and disagree on things. I personally am ok with how this was done. Yes, it's expensive, but finding people with pirate/islander points six years after the event was near impossible, so I think we're better off that way

I'll arm wrestle you to the death. ❤

Thats the thing though. The people who bought them in the past bought them because they thought it was worth the price tag that was attached to it then. Just like anything that comes into a regular market, the price would decrease over time as the market progresses on and it becomes saturated with newer items.

I'm not saying "Go willy nilly and make everything 1sp" but surely a 3b+ item is a bit much even? I'm saying make it a bit more accessible to the other users.

You're preaching to the choir about long term goals though.

When The Ether was released, there weren't 5 people on Subeta with 400 million to their name. How many do you think they sold in the first day ? In the first few weeks ? Well : very few. Now there's hundreds out there.

The thing with items as expensive as this isn't to make people who have the sP RIGHT NOW to spend it, nor to make a huge sP sink, but yes to make these almost extinct items available again. It will take saving up, weeks and months. And maybe you, reading this, are not up for the journey. Ok, Subeta did something, a one thing, that isn't aimed towards you. Why are you mad ? There's 50K items on Subeta but you just want the one that wasn't made for you.

There's plenty of people that are extremelly excited to finally have a chance to buy these items, because they've already bought everything else, or because that's just how much they want them. This is high end collecting. But fret not, as there are thousands of plushies, beanbags, food items, wearables and weapons for you to collect first that will fit your budget.

You just have to accept some things are going to stay out of your grasp. You can't have everything, and you should be thankful for that as having everything sounds very, very boring. I read the news comments, I read the forums, and all I can picture in my head is a crowd of lowlife whiners going to Ferrari's headquarters complaining that they can't buy their cars, and that the brand should just "adapt to us, the customers". Well : lol.

3.5B is easier to make than the 50 000 points in that event. :) I wish I was kidding, but I'm not : I stopped at about 10K points because I knew I wasn't able to make it to 20K, let alone 50K.

There is a reason why it's that expensive : it's because it was near impossible to originally attain.

Holy shit. I take my hat off to those who put the dedication into getting it during the event. As someone whose sole goals are sp related, if 3.5b is easier to make, then kudos.

As I said before, I'm not really here to pick one side or another. Just more so trying to look at it from an economics perspective (and say that I won't shell out my sp on them myself). Subeta is sort of good for that even if its a very hyper inflationary economy.

also: OH MY GOD TINY DANCING GROOT.

The people tracking how much sP is on the site right now and how much has been spent aren't getting the actual numbers for the shop. sP is constantly being generated as well. I wouldn't mind seeing numbers for the actual shop posted by staff.

But like said, it's not really an sP sink as it's causing people to hoard items/sP, and it'd take a near eternity to buy some of these items. You need new items to make it an sP sink. Old items that cost vast millions just makes things in regards to sP worse. And someone else is bang on, too. Spending millions upon millions on one single item that could gain you multiple items just feels out of sorts o.o

The shop wasn't made with the intention of being a pure sP sink like the TC slots or the event cruise hair style.

The sP being removed is a side benefit.

Doable does not mean desirable. There's ONE single item I want out of both shops, and it's more than 100mil. It's half of the full sP I own. Sure, could I eventually work up to buy it? Yeah. But by then, why would I WANT to spend all that sP for one single item? I just spent weeks building it up, just dropping it for one minion just isn't worth it.

The reward has to be worth the effort, and I don't think it is.

The shops were advertised as releasing old items, AND an sP sink. Right now, it's only one of those.

I'm quite grateful that Subeta made previously unavailable items available again. And I don't mind the prices at all. I actually think it's quite fair. Can I afford anything right now? No. I only have like 40mil (unless I sell my hoards). However, I am definitely going to save up for things. 3.75bil per godly is quite a deal. Before, the only place I could obtain one was in my dreams... not that I dream about Subeta shifty eyes

I'm probably echoing what others users touched on, but I don't think the prices are there to convince people to want them. It's for people who wanted them but couldn't get them because they were unavailable and priceless. Now they have a fixed price and aren't limited, so the chances of me obtaining one is much easier.

3.75mil per godly would be quite a deal indeed. Sign me up for a dozen dozens.

Haha, oops. Edited. *bil :P

And man...have you ever been to a real antique shop? It's pricey for a reason.

I mean, some of the prices could stand to be lowered a bit, but...come on. They didn't have to give us anything at all. They could just be like Neopets where if you missed a plot event, then you're shit out of luck.

A huge thank you to and for doing so much hard work for us so that it would be fair. ♥

To get all of the books for Elfric to read, it'd require me to save 349,875,000 sPs. Not unrealistic...just time-consuming, and I'd rather spend that amount on better weapons and stat-boosting.

No wait, multiply that by 5 actually, cause I have 5 battle pets (cause intel matters): 1,749,375,000 sPs

That is not a realistic goal. That's just fucking stupid. I am not saving up to nearly 2 trillion sPs to be able to afford virtual one-use shit.

No one in their right fucking mind should or would do that.

Assuming I did my math right, then it'd be a total of 874,687,500 sPs.

I keep forgetting that discount thing. Probably cause it's unfamiliar still as a concept. xD

That's more achievable. It'd be like saving up for a Natasha and some 150mil weapon/scroll. Probably after i get the weapons I need, that's a goal I can work towards.