Hello all,

Many people have asked me this question over the past two days, and I'm not embarrassed to admit that I don't have a clear answer. Indeed, this year's Halloween heads eclipsed in price all but the most exclusive 1/5 heads from drop parties past, with prices on party night hitting a previously unheard-of 2DC straight from the get-go.

I'd like to pick your brains on what exactly led to this unbelievable pricing escalation. Was it the fact that it was held in a new /events server? Was it the disappointing payout of the Easter 2020 heads? Were the heads just THAT beautiful so as to urge people to empty their entire grass reserves just to hold them? Please let me know what you think, as I'd like to figure out what exactly caused this and what future DP head prices might look like in light of this.

Note: I know that there is a rumor going around that certain head prices rose to 3DC due to one or two individuals hoarding a ton of them. While it is tempting to blame it on a handful of people and call it a day, I'd like to hear all informed opinions surrounding this in order to get a clearer picture.

Thanks, GAMER

 

i'm extremely confused too, I have absolutely no clue.

 

ok so this is pretty easy to explain in my mind

its a combination of several factors the boils down to lower supply and increased demand

reason one old players returned
Triggered ialex and ward returned and wanted heads driving up market
this raised demand

reason 2
Shep stockpiling clowns and others stockpiling
this lowers supply

reason 3
new players joining market
Mainly gruee and I buying heads
along with others joining the market further straining the limited supply

in Conclusion much less effective supply and greater demand
My sunpoisis head prices on survival wont fall people will be unwilling to take a loss to sell
this will forever be more expensive then the 2019s because of this

 

That's actually a pretty good explanation, coming from a guy who doesn't really collect heads. (Because I'm poor lmao)

 

relatable, lmfao.

 

Probably people raising their prices to buy heads rather than their competitors. Like for example Laini was buying them for less than a DC then I think @triggered (not sure who exactly) started buying them for 1 DC and slowly the prices rose up and reached from around 1.5 DC to a whopping 3 DC in rare cases

and cuz them heads r bootiful well at least the ghost and clown ones r : )

 

So I accidentally said as a joke "I'll buy one for 40 stacks" and then it just kept going up and up and up and i was like ????

 

Lesson Learnt: never joke about Rare items prices or that will happen.
and another lesson learnt: never have laini as ur name and joke

 

These heads did sell for a lot, I wonder how much the Christmas ones will be selling for.

 

I hope less than these haha, the economy is going to struggle if prices like these keep happening.

 

they wont sell for this unless people get alot more grass

 

Thanks for your insight. However, the theory in your second paragraph doesn't explain why Easter's DP heads were so cheap. If I recall correctly, none of them really went for more than a DC, and most of them sold for between 1728 and 2600. Might this be because they all looked the same, barring the color?

 

There are a number of factors, but for this I'll just speak on the behalf of what I observed on economy.

Piggy-backing on what Bert said, it was really a sort of 'monkey see monkey do' situation between collectors. Which quite frankly started to spill to the regular players. It could be some factors such as collectors desperately wanting to keep that 'complete collection' title, or it could also be fairly wealthy players who might've missed the Easter drop party wanting to accommodate for it with Halloween. An additional factor for the exponential increase in price was the lack of care amongst the wealthier players. It got to a point (myself included) where if there was a head that someone publicly announced was for sale, it would be bought, whatever the cost. Why? I couldn't tell you.

Those are just a few of the MANY reasons why the head market exploded. I am interested to know some other perspectives on this.

 

I think it can be summarized by the fact that there was an increased demand in getting drop party heads this year, similar to what Ursus said.

There are definitely several reasons for the high prices, but they all derive from the idea that there are more players collecting this year than any other year. Whether people are trying to achieve a complete collection, hoard as much as possible, trying to obtain all five heads as Adrian said, or start collecting, they all stem back to the idea there is an increasing demand while the amount dropped each year remains the same.

 

I've been found out, here's my take on the situation for those who want more reasons to the economy-sb price similarity.

Be sure to keep this thread going! its super interesting to read all the points of views to the community (and lets work together to FIX DROP PARTY PRICES!)

 

In my opinion, this new awful DP system is the reason for this chaos. Since heads weren't tradeable instantly, people (including me) panic bought every head for sale, this very high demand and slightly low supply (since inevitably not all 100 people will ever play on the skyblock server, let alone sell / give / trade it) caused mass chaos.
Some people, like shep, managed to scoop up a LOT of heads before the chaos started.

I spent in total, about 12 dcs on getting one of each of these heads, including 3 dcs for a Frank, and 4 dcs for a clown (traded a 1/5 santa).

If the DP system is the same as it is now at christmas, the same will happen again.

 

interesting but not sure i agree i got several trades brfire the transfer
Baybe a solution to his is head get transfered based of whose inv they are in to they are tradeable in /events

 

Sticking eco and /skyblock players into one server was beyond stupid. They need to do it on the main servers again, but instead, make a warp to one place, and change the plugin to only give out to heads to people within a 200 block radius, meaning only people at the warp on the server gets the chance to get a head. Reason behind this being that this would reduce lag as people aren't loading in their islands, they're at this warp.