The prices are reflecting the economy though. It's how life works.<br /> <br /> You can always get the items from the main stores. That's where I get most of mine. :)

Not everyone trials though. I make very little money from trials. I only have one dog I trial right now, and she's probably going to die soon. My other dogs don't have amazing TPs, considering how many monster TP dogs are out there. Plus, I don't have anything to help with training other than a SC, so it takes me forever when I do get decent TP dogs to train them. And I have to wait a while for said one dog to gain energy back to trial again. I think today is the day I've made the most from trialing, and that was 2k. I make most of my money from games, which can get me 10k daily, usually. That's no where near enough with the price increases. Occasionally I get lucky and get a lot of money in my shop till, but that's not often. And beauty shows obviously don't give out a lot.<br /> <br /> And its clear I'm not a new person having trouble with money. I've been around for over a year now. And I know there are a lot of users like me who won't be able to get anything from the monthly shop now.

I think this change is necessary. With the new trail pricing means players can earn money more easily. I don't want to see the economy crash

Guys, we should all remember that Rob is constantly adding and changing things for us all the time. This is one of the few times Rob is asking us to deal with a change that will help out our economy. We should accept it and move it. It's really your money, some will spend it, some won't. What you do with it is up to you. This is a change to help us. :)<br /> <br /> To be completely honest, I do wish this wouldn't happen however I completely understand why you are doing this. I would appreciate if you were to do 25k rather than 30k. I am looking foward to the change and the new prices.

Im actually surprised its taken this long to assess the prices!<br /> <br /> Every game goes through growing phases, the more people play the more money circulates. Ala has been open over a year now and like any normal economy there needs to be a fine balance between currency. <br /> <br /> TBH, there are not many actual money sinks within Ala. When I say money sinks, I mean where the currency is taken out of the game. There are lots of ways to earn and trade money (Trials, Shows, User Shops etc) but not many ways for the economy to balance itself naturally<br /> <br /> I FULLY support the raising of prices to reflect the current economy BUT also believe it should be revised on a more regular basis to follow the economy<br /> <br /> You dont NEED to buy every item in monthly shops and in all honestly, Ala is prob one of a handful of games that allow monthly 'premium' items to be brought for site cash and not just pure Site Credits (Bones)<br /> <br /> I buy items with both currencies in the Monthly Shop because I earn my site $$ through trials (which is a great money maker - I earn approx. 50k a day via trials) so Im totally un-bias as to prices and such

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I'm with Gamzee and Ly on this.. I'm the kind of person that sees crazy high prices and refuses to spend my money on whatever it is just because I feel like they're trying to exploit me. I'm not saying you're trying to exploit us - I can see the sense behind raising the prices to help stabilize the economy. I do think 30k/bone is a little steep, though, especially considering the current monetary output of the games, which are often relied upon for supplemental income (the highest I've ever gotten is around $1800, which is next to nothing with this new system).

I have to agree with Gamzee here. I would just end up hoarding my money more and only buy necessary things, like food. I probably wouldn't even venture into the monthly shop, when normally I go in as soon as it updates and see if there's anything I want, cause I'm usually willing to buy at least the huge bag, but with the price it'll be at? I won't even bother even if there's something I like, probably. I'll just hoard all my money.

I think 15k is alright, but 30 + 5k per bone? Isn't that a bit overpriced for the lower users? Not that I'm flaming or anything, but it's just too much for some of us who don't have PayPal and things like that. o.o<br /> <br /> And Gamzee's right; some people are just overpricing just to make a buck.

That all depends on what the buyer sees the item worth. Timestops are okay how they are now.. but 155K? Nah, I wouldn't buy that.<br>Then, there is another thread in Suggest Something that states that users have <b>too much</b> money.. but... if there were a price increase on everything, users would have to save up more money to afford them and everybody would be rich.

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I think it's going to end up with people who say have an item they saved up for with 5 bones, say it goes up to 7 or 8 and they sell it for 6 or 7, that gives them a nice profit.