This post is ragebait isn't it ?

Any player who played Sea of Thieves for an extended period of time unlocked all cosmetics, hundreds of them, with hundreds of millions of gold.
I don't think they are expensive, if anything, the newer cosmetics are nicely priced (around 900k for Reapers guns for instance).

Most cosmetics you can buy in gold are dirt cheap (less than 50k) while you can make 200k in about 1h solo slooping and doing a random emergent World Event.

There is more expansive one, and it is, in my opinion, a good thing.

@burnbacon Do you think you proved something slightly? Remember not everyone has all the time in the world. First off, It’s obvious you wouldn’t have even did half of that in the shoes of a newer player/RV. From what you told me, you probably only made around 100k/150k (with grade 5) doing those events, nowhere close to a “couple millions”. After all that effort you still can’t even afford a Captain Ship, we just have to do that all over again right? My point still stands clearly, the voyage’s still hardly pay for the amount of time and money they want you to spend. Nothing has changed, I don’t know who put that in your head, the game maybe be a little different from your beta build you players cling to so desperately, but few has changed we all know Rare leaves old things broken. Don’t even brother trying to spin that narrative “If I can do they can too” because if that was the case newer players wouldn’t have issues.

@littlelungzz591

Making money is incredibly easy in this game. My first three months or so as a total newbie I spammed Athena shipwrecks in the roar after someone introduced it to me. I almost wish I needed money so that I could be motivated to grind gold again. I had a great time doing that and made a killing. Grinding for gold/doubloons is something that gives the game more meaning, but for most people, gold is meaningless.

There are many easy, fairly safe ways to get gold fast. Anyone can do it at any skill level.

@burnbacon said in Decreasing Ship Cosmetic Prices.:

and did those two Gallarions, again another simple and easy thing to do with little downtime.

What is a Gallarion?

It all comes down to the players managment of time, which is a skill you learn in life. :P

Imagine someone says cosmetics are overpriced, and your response is to lecture them about managing their real-life time better.

It’s not about how hard it is to “find Gold” it’s about the large time consumption it takes to get even a well amount of gold in the first place

Made a couple million within a few hours (would been less but other ships) just making a circle around the map, doing Shrines/Camps/Fortress. That also not sailing with an emissary. You can run in and out of those locations without much troubles it shocking players want to make gold faster and easier when already is.
Add in the random loot picked up from beaches as I pass by.

A few hours, I say, because I circled the whole map and visited multiple locations. Now I just picked one section of the map, say DR? and did those two Gallarions, again another simple and easy thing to do with little downtime. It all comes down to the players managment of time, which is a skill you learn in life. :P

@elmo6842 said in Decreasing Ship Cosmetic Prices.:

@europa4033 exactly the vaults give you so much gold from just one of them. It's not hard to do an eternal guard. The new players can make so much money in just one session from doing just those. The roar has become dead again so not many people will even bother you over there.

^^^This.

@europa4033 exactly the vaults give you so much gold from just one of them. It's not hard to do an eternal guard. The new players can make so much money in just one session from doing just those. The roar has become dead again so not many people will even bother you over there.

@littlelungzz591 said in Decreasing Ship Cosmetic Prices.:

@callmebackdraft [mod removed] It’s not about how hard it is to “find Gold” it’s about the large time consumption it takes to get even a well amount of gold in the first place, then having to spend huge amounts on half decent cosmetics that are poorly priced, which makes it more difficult for newer players/RV to hold onto gold in early game. The prove is in the project honestly, with the recent complaints on the forums with early game content along with Safer Seas, I guess all I said wasn’t just fairytales.

With the addition of newer content giving you items that give a ton more gold now than ever-before (a few minutes of time to be precise), with all due respect, I don't think you're informed as much as you think you are. Earning gold used to be incredibly more difficult than it is now.

@rocksinclair I haven't done anything with the express purpose of getting gold and have over 20 mil rn, just hg wins and the occasional sinking a pve reaper

@littlelungzz591 gold is worthless once you get to a certain point, I wish there was stuff to still buy other than finishing out the DA set

@littlelungzz591 thats what i have been saving, nowadays the time investment to get 1m gold is in the neighbourhood of a few hours without breaking a sweat. Thats what i mean by “gold is easy to get”.

Want it even faster ?!? Really now we are talking participation trophy style of rewards… come one now.

@littlelungzz591 said in Decreasing Ship Cosmetic Prices.:

then having to spend huge amounts on half decent cosmetics that are poorly priced, which makes it more difficult for newer players/RV to hold onto gold in early game.

If half decent as you claim to be, why waste gold on them? You shouldn't be bothered with their price then really. 😂 And please, no need to whiteknight for "poor new players". There's no shame admitting this is purely what you wish for yourself.

Speaking of new players, all of us in this comment section were new at some point before, and it was much tougher for us in terms of gathering gold then, than it is now.

So your entire point is falling flat since the beginning.

"Poor new players" should grow the hell up, and stop expecting every piece of food should be chewed for them and put in their mouth lol.

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@callmebackdraft [mod removed] It’s not about how hard it is to “find Gold” it’s about the large time consumption it takes to get even a well amount of gold in the first place, then having to spend huge amounts on half decent cosmetics that are poorly priced, which makes it more difficult for newer players/RV to hold onto gold in early game. The prove is in the project honestly, with the recent complaints on the forums with early game content along with Safer Seas, I guess all I said wasn’t just fairytales.

@littlelungzz591 said in Decreasing Ship Cosmetic Prices.:

@callmebackdraft Why do older seasons of the game keep getting brought up along with the struggles?

There weren’t even seasons then lol, anyways not the point

You HAVE to let that go honestly, if something has changed, it should change for the better. few has changed if you deeply think about it. The voyage’s still hardly pay,

And yet a ton was added outside of voyages with WAY more lucrative loot, i mean as an example a skull fort used to, in total, be worth the same as a chest of fortune is now. And that is not even taking emmisary bonuses in regard

along with double gold coming around only once a blue moon not to mention the still low payout. early game voyages.

Double gold coming around once in a blue moon ?!?

Almost monthly double gold, 2.5x multipliers with seasonally community weekends, and even the twice per 24 hour gold rush that gives you another 50% bonus to all gold earned… yeah these gold boosts are truly once within a blue moon.

Not to mention the soon to be coming bilge rat weekender adding even more stuff

I’m assuming you’re thinking newer players/Rv are even lucky to get money boost right? This mentality is “I used to go through it, they should to” is complete nonsense.

Nowhere did i say that, have at it, you know why, because the gold economy is broken and it has been for a long time. This is also why we are saying that the cosmetic pricing dont need to be lowered.

Because in simple terms the only thing as abundant as gold in this game is the water we sail on.

Yea you can keep complaining about (early game) voyages, and i think thats where you keep getting stuck for gold, doing voyages nothing is preventing a new player from doing anything else. Like simply sailing around and finding random spawn skelly captains with a high chance of getting a reapers bounty worth 10k f.i.

All the washed up loot, random spawn pve giving out high rewarss, sailing to a sea fort for a high payout, or even easier a skelly camp, go down get the orb easy money in less then 5 minutes

Meanwhile talking down on the little updates already accommodated to newer players, is a perfect example of what I mean by saying Sea Of Thieves needing to stop listening to current veterans. They made something that used to be to difficult easier, now since it’s easier it’s considered to easy. Those kind player’s couldn’t think of a concept, even if it sat on them.

Most of all the additions to this game have made it easier to get gold and reputation.

It used to take weeks/months to obtain pirate legend, this can now legitimately be done within a few hours.

Do i care about that, no i dont care at all.

However you state; “make cosmetics cheaper because gold is hard to earn”

We are simply saying, no gold is easy to earn if you know where to look, you ignoring that and trying to strawman in other assumptions about what i and others are “really” trying to say.

Here ill make it easy, no double meaning left right or center.

Gold is VERY easy to earn in large amounts and thus cosmetics prices do not need to be lowered.

@europa4033

Keep in mind, skeleton ships used to also spawn on you while on islands, making you rush faster or fight. And Galleon ships would spawn on sloops :P
But that was too difficult and troublesome; removed and decreased both. (The good days.)

But yeah. You can literally now Fish/Cook and sell all at a single dock while raising an emissary flag to boost. We have daily challenges, some of which are simply "Eat fruit" and 3000 gold instantly.

@littlelungzz591 said in Decreasing Ship Cosmetic Prices.:

This mentality is “I used to go through it, they should to” is complete nonsense.

If you please go back and re-read, no one is saying that. We're saying it was much more difficult back in the day to earn gold, than it is now.

• Safer Seas didn't exist, which gives you 100% value despite not having anyone else there.
• We had to purchase voyages ourselves from the NPC at the outposts. You're now given infinite voyages to do, for free.
• We had to sell treasure by-hand WITH the risks of other ships coming over.
• As time as gone by, there are more ways to get higher-valued items that didn't exist yet.

With all of these benefits you get to enjoy now, I can't believe you're here making a post about lowering prices since gold is "so hard to get."

@callmebackdraft Why do older seasons of the game keep getting brought up along with the struggles? You HAVE to let that go honestly, if something has changed, it should change for the better. few has changed if you deeply think about it. The voyage’s still hardly pay, along with double gold coming around only once a blue moon not to mention the still low payout early game voyages. I’m assuming you’re thinking newer players/Rv are even lucky to get money boost right? This mentality is “I used to go through it, they should to” is complete nonsense. Meanwhile talking down on the little updates already accommodated to newer players, is a perfect example of what I mean by saying Sea Of Thieves needing to stop listening to current veterans. They made something that used to be to difficult easier, now since it’s easier it’s considered to easy. Those kind player’s couldn’t think of a concept, even if it sat on them.

@littlelungzz591 if you think cosmetics are expensive now, with the current gold economy you would have cried at the mere sight of howit was year 1 and 2.

Voyages have never, ever been the best/fastest way to get gold. Yes nowadays there are some lucrative voyages but still.

Back in the day my good old galleon crew thrived on our efficiency and where able to make about 250k in a 4 hour or so session.

Now, with my current sloop crew we make 250k in half an hour easily and multiple millions in the same 4 hours, why, because once you know where to look gold is literally everywhere.

I mean a single treasury grants 25k, a sea fort about the same, an ashen garrison is easy 50k

Skelly fleet about 50~100k without it being the special red fleet of fortune.

It is insane to me when i see players taking multiple hours to level up their emmisary to level 5, this can be done in 30 minutes to an hour max.

The boost from emissary alone (2.5x apart from guild) is what broke the economy in the first place not too mention the amount of gold and glory/community weekend like events throwing another 2/2.5x multiplier on top of that

Possibly returning veteran that remembers the scarcity of gold in Y1.

8m-ish in gold. 😆 Friend has 20m-ish, we were both pretty casual and stayed away from the high risk & openly pvp stuff.

My kid sits around 100m, I haven't asked what their current gold count is in a couple of years...

There is plenty of gold to be had.
One ritual completed is 30k (unless that's been changed, been a while) takes about 15-20 minutes if you're bad at pve.

Prices of "expensive" items is fine.
Now when they start dropping 10m gold items...maybe...

@littlelungzz591 This may be True but there is also players with millions that have really nothing to buy, its ment to be a grind and not done in a day, if you think about some of the commendations they take about 50 hours, I can make a million gold in a few hours, it's about balance if this change is made players who enjoy the grind and earning lots will complain things are too cheap and they own everything. With that happening they have no reason to play and the game loses a player.

Check out the Outpost stores at the upcoming Bilge Rat Weekender's and you may find your money stretches a bit further.

The high restrictions already on Safer Seas are hardly helping for newer players/RV to learn,

What High restrictions...

Current Sea Of Thieves veterans already have everything they could think of

I still dont have that darn Shrouded ghost title...

Everything that is unlocked by gold is like picking up sand in this game, its everywhere and in my boots. So easy to find you trip or fish and earn gold.