Cron stone price increase (via outfit price increase) brought me to the forums. I am upset that inflation is everwhere in the world, including my gaming. I am upset that while crystals CAN be bought with silver and replaced when they break, oftentimes, they are unavailable and you must wait on a preorder to fill, or spend TIME rebuildling them from scratch.

This is the penalty for not playing perfectly at an end-game spot, catching a lagspike that one shots you, or having someone grief you by feeding you to mobs. Thier answer to this penalty is a pearl shop item, that is convienient to restore the lost crystal for a cost. I disagree with the money-grab tactic. 

I don't like that they are increasing the pearl outfit cost on the market to entice whales to buy and sell them for silver. If they want to MAKE money, they need to increase the amount of pearls offered in thier pearl boxes, reduce the cost of real world money spent, making this an actual micro transaction game, so the masses of broke gamers are more willing to spend a couple bucks. People like me are deterred when looking at the "efficient" pearl boxes. I am not going to spend $80 over and over on a game. The price of pearls is absolutely insane.

The Risk/Reward idea is great, but all you gain from "risking" your crystals to a harder spot is the chance at a debo drop or slightly more silver/hour. If they are trying to stop players from grinding at spots below thier gear level for the sake of safety, then they need to reduce the risk or increase the reward at other spot without a pearl shop purchase solution.

Yeah, I really wish they'd stop jacking up the prices on everything (costumes on Central Market). Really ridiculous.

I would rather outfits NOT be meltable for efficent crons so that people would actually be able to wear outfits.  

Actually I would rather they not do anything with pearl items on the CM and instead allows the pearl boxes to be straight listable.  They should just allow people to post 10k pearl boxes straight to the CM Tax Free.  Any pearl item would then be taxed removing the need for the T and P flags on pearl items.