This cash box is intendet to grab our money sure but we are not talking about thoose boxes itselfe we are talking about the gem powder and the cost to transmute it if you dont wanna use F10 for it. So we have to keep in mind gem powders comes from F10 now but do people really buy all the powders with Ncoin ? of course not if it would be like this Gem powder wouldnt be at 12G right now it would still be atleast 20G.
PVP Players (mostly the ones from a specific region i am not allowed to name) earn like 100k or even more HM coins by wintrading, cheating, abusing of rank system, sometimes with good gameplay aswell......... thoose HM coins are used to buy Gem powders and since they buy so much of them its hard for them to get rid of them and the price decreases.
My point here is not the demand changed i would even say it increased but the avaibility exploded. Just look at the soul stones it was the same. Pet pod event came and demand was to high so the price increased but now there is low demand which means they sell for only 1.3G.
This is not really true. Demand is still pretty high cause there are alot of people including me who want the ap from the gems. I have pentas aswell cause i just wanted it.
The point is there was a cost reduction but not in a way most players would have wanted to see one.