Flight Rising Discussion

Aww...maybe Roundsey? Some users still think that if/when Roundsey starts to give these things away, it will make the items drop in value. The same thing happened with KS fams, but those prices are balancing out now that we know for sure that the retired stuff Roundsey gives away won’t affect the market of retired items.

At least...that’s my guess. It’s most likely wrong.

Yeah they started dropping in price a long time ago, I remember 2 years ago I got mine for 6k and I checked at the beginning of this year and they were around 3
T was happening before Roundsey so I wouldn't say that!

cries[/s] still not enough for forgetools

One day maybe? One day.

First year stuff has always fluxed rather severely.

Here’s a spreadsheet of retired items from back in 2015, (gem ratio was 550-650:1, ah how nice that’d be again).

Most notable to me was the armband prices, where they were almost all around 1kg each they’ve now dropped hard. So much so that i just picked up a half dozen or so at ~300g each.

A bit painful to remember buying something at a ‘steal’ of 1200g and now be buying one for a quarter of the price.

The thing is, stuff like the armbands don’t have a lot of value as apparel: if you want to show off Flight pride there’s a lot more noticeable ways of doing so. So they’re mostly just tokens for the collectors’ market. And the demand (which has always been somewhat low) took a significant hit when they announced that retired items are no longer hard limited.

So if you’re a collector with a dozen of these sitting in your vault accruing value and the market starts to dive, it makes sense to want to liquidate and get an assured value out while you can.

But a market flood preceding a perceived value loss due to Roundsey injecting more items on the market suppressed prices far more than what happens from Roundsey alone.

Economics is driven by supply and demand, and while the changes aren’t influencing either much, the emotions tied to it can have a far bigger impact.