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Yeah some of the feminine items are pretty expensive. Fortunately for me, a lot of pastel-y items have become a major turn off. I can't stomach items like workshop flora. Good for the wallet.

On the other hand I squeed internally at Beat em up being only 10k, that vest is awesome.

Also I broke my general rule of not purchasing items above sellback on rig day. I always wait for deflation 2-3 weeks after rig release. I had to get the General Wenqian item, the colors were just too good, my fingers moved all on their own!! Imo it was a steal at 100k!

I don't know video game references, but alot of items were darker colors, non-frilly and not to pricey, which made me very happy on the whole.

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I think they're cheap 'cause nobody can find them easily on the MP unless they use the CI list, which in itself is not widely known to people especially the portion of users who don't use the forums.

I posted a flag counter on the first page of Winter's list and during the first day of CI opening, less than 5,000 people visited the page (that's counting pageviews...not unique visitors too) yet there were around 19,000 people online when the CI opened. Which means only 1/4th of people on Gaia knew the GCD list existed to see all the items.

As of now the counter says "This counter has been viewed 7,960 times by 4,120 visitors!" even though there are 11,000 people online right now...which probably means that less than half those people know the CI lists exists.

So you can figure that if it's harder for people to find the CI items, they're not going to buy them. Thus decreased demand in the MP, thus lower prices.

IMO the faster falling prices are a side effect of what happens when Gaia makes difficult CI tags that you can't really use well to track new CI items.

Some people have no idea what's new and what's old, so when they follow the "game on" tags it makes it difficult to monitor or even tell what the new stuff is from this CI, if there are already 200+ listings with "game" tagged to them.

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Oddly cheap? More like oddly affordable. I can actually buy most of the ones I like.

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Yeah some of the feminine items are pretty expensive. Fortunately for me, a lot of pastel-y items have become a major turn off. I can't stomach items like workshop flora. Good for the wallet.

On the other hand I squeed internally at Beat em up being only 10k, that vest is awesome.

Also I broke my general rule of not purchasing items above sellback on rig day. I always wait for deflation 2-3 weeks after rig release. I had to get the General Wenqian item, the colors were just too good, my fingers moved all on their own!! Imo it was a steal at 100k!

I don't know video game references, but alot of items were darker colors, non-frilly and not to pricey, which made me very happy on the whole.


A lot of them were also rarer colored like neon green and orange which a lot of desu peeps avoid.

Special Snowflake

I think there is a few which are lower than I'd thought they'd be, but.... mostly more attainable prices rather than cheap. Unfortunately, not cheap enough for me xd Shows me for going on hiatus rofl

Does the Gaia population of activity decrease during the summer months may be? Or perhaps the lack of more "feminine" items mean that the demand is less for the items perhaps? ... Maybe the drop rates for better items are better than in previous RIGs?

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Kinda funny how I'm not actually interested in the expensive items. The cheap ones are so nice.

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I think there is a few which are lower than I'd thought they'd be, but.... mostly more attainable prices rather than cheap. Unfortunately, not cheap enough for me xd Shows me for going on hiatus rofl

Does the Gaia population of activity decrease during the summer months may be? Or perhaps the lack of more "feminine" items mean that the demand is less for the items perhaps? ... Maybe the drop rates for better items are better than in previous RIGs?


I think less ''feminine'' items are a factor here. This I think is one of the more 'neutral' and male-oriented RIGs out there. I think it's a plus factor that we move a bit away from froufrou.

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well i like how some of the items i'm really interested in have gone down in price XD. i don't have the gold for the super expensive awesome items. sweatdrop

Ruthless Shapeshifter

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Kinda funny how I'm not actually interested in the expensive items. The cheap ones are so nice.

I agree with you on this.
Normally I'm hopping on the super expensive 3m male leg mod train. XD
But for this RIG it's the lower range items I turned out liking.

Ruthless Shapeshifter

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Sand Dancer Shaka
I think there is a few which are lower than I'd thought they'd be, but.... mostly more attainable prices rather than cheap. Unfortunately, not cheap enough for me xd Shows me for going on hiatus rofl

Does the Gaia population of activity decrease during the summer months may be? Or perhaps the lack of more "feminine" items mean that the demand is less for the items perhaps? ... Maybe the drop rates for better items are better than in previous RIGs?


I think less ''feminine'' items are a factor here. This I think is one of the more 'neutral' and male-oriented RIGs out there. I think it's a plus factor that we move a bit away from froufrou.


Could also be the bag MP tagging for Game On. XD

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Kinda funny how I'm not actually interested in the expensive items. The cheap ones are so nice.

I agree with you on this.
Normally I'm hopping on the super expensive 3m male leg mod train. XD
But for this RIG it's the lower range items I turned out liking.

Yeah! I just bought the psychonauts item. It's so nice.

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Ladykiller

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Everyone is holding onto their gold for the end of summer sale. Sellers that usually make their gold off of new rig items are getting desperate.

There are also more people online because of summer vacation. More people = more people opening rigs = more items = deflated prices.

Someone was nice enough to sell me a new rig item 20k under the sellback price.

Devoted Loiterer

haven't noticed, since all of the items aren't up my alley, Too generic.

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I actually want them cheaper. I don't have a lot of gold right now.
This is my thoughts.

Maybe the Gaia economy is stabilizing?

xMill's Partner

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About a third of the items I want are above 1mil. > ^ >
So I wish for the gods of deflation to descend upon the land.

*stares at Workshop Flora and Butterfly Kick* Why WHY?!
Why can't I catch either of you at a missprice?
It is the only way I am going to be able to afford either of you.
There were quite a few 1.8-1.9m BK listings during the initial release. cry

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