I don't think there is anything wrong with the price drops at all, okay I understand that its inconvenient for players that have invested a large sum of TC in to 3D items and such.
But you need to be able to widen your perspective a little bit here.
First of all, the prices weren't just high, the USD/TC ratio was completely skewed across all items, and the prices weren't set as a whole, just item to item pricings.
Also think about just the sheer amount of games you have to play to be able to afford anything. If you start out as a white belt it will take you a very long time to get any sort of 3D items if you have no game experience.
I remember when I started out, I got to 2nd dan black belt just by playing public games, and all I were able to afford after 2k games was marine/aqua force/relax and a head texture 128x128.
If you take other games like rocket league, or counterstrike, items gets shoved down your throat basically compared to what it does in toribash,
Buying your first 3D item, if that item costs 10-20k thats basically hundreds of games you have to play before you are able to afford one single item
thats just insanity, and its bad for business as well, seeing as cosmetics is a huge part of toribash, and if getting nice items is only for the elite this is a problem in the quest of getting a bigger playerbase.
And yes, you can sell textures, enter events, marketeer and so on to get tc quicker I know, but that stuff is secondary to the game,
playing the game itself should be enough to be able to afford customizing your character to something you are satisfied with, not every player wants to soak hundreds of hours in to this game, but still wants the ability to access a basic game function which is customization.
Remember that you guys hanging on the forums and marketeering only represent a really small fraction of the playerbase, and you also represent the fraction that have spent the most time and energy in to the game as well.
As far as the developers go, how long after a game release do you expect the developers to be active and around? forever? I'm very satisfied with what Hampa have done for toribash, and the fact that this forum is so active and alive 10 years after toribash is released is just fantastic.
Hampa is still around, hes not updating the game that often anymore, but cmon give him some credit here, he has been around for a looong time and he still pops by now and then.
And yes I think Toribashes most active days are behind us, but still, enjoy the game, enjoy the forum and have fun.
Last edited by Ezeth; Feb 19, 2017 at 01:57 PM.