There are new hats that are much cheaper to buy, if you want an old hat, stake your way up, or farm npcs. its that simple. those people who have the old hats now are the people who put it on the line in each stake they won, or grinded there ass off.

I personally was broke as fuck before the cracker event. i put everything i got from the event on the line. stake after stake to get what i have now. why should what i worked my ass off for be devalued just because you're lazy? party hat prices constantly raised on rscrevolution classic, rscrevolution never introduced more hats so they would stay lower. what makes you think thats the solution here? nothing other then your own dumb ass grind. you hoping to snap a few free hats up so you don't have to work for them,

You also like to blame hoarders, but in reality, its because this game is a free market. you gotta pay whatever people are willing to sell for. if you dont want to pay for it, you dont have to, you can go without. hoarders keep there hats and only sell for high gp, because there's fuck all to blow gp on once you have things like 99mage 93pray, as the majority of stakers dont skill much. there is solutions, but of course you'll turn them down because you're still stuck in 2005.

isn't that how rare's become desirable?

Phats in real RS were shit the first 2 years, now they are everything anyone wished for...
Thats just what makes them wanted.

isn't that how rare's become desirable?

Phats in real RS were shit the first 2 years, now they are everything anyone wished for...
Thats just what makes them wanted.

This is very true but one thing almost everyone overlooks is that they were originally called " Holiday Items " and meant to be a fun thing.  They never in there wildest dreams expected the game would be as popular as it was. They later proved this by making new " Holiday items "  something you could not trade and proved this more so on 07 by releasing 10's of thousands too combat this problem.

and yet they stopped doing that all the time and release items that are now worth ridiculous gold like party hats.

google the black santa hat on rs2. it was released only 2 years ago adn its worth almost 1bill gp. clearly rscrevolution had a change of thought.

isn't that how rare's become desirable?

Phats in real RS were shit the first 2 years, now they are everything anyone wished for...
Thats just what makes them wanted.

This is very true but one thing almost everyone overlooks is that they were originally called " Holiday Items " and meant to be a fun thing.  They never in there wildest dreams expected the game would be as popular as it was. They later proved this by making new " Holiday items "  something you could not trade and proved this more so on 07 by releasing 10's of thousands too combat this problem.

and yet they stopped doing that all the time and release items that are now worth ridiculous gold like party hats.

google the black santa hat on rs2. it was released only 2 years ago adn its worth almost 1bill gp. clearly rscrevolution had a change of thought.

rscrevolution indeed made a change some years ago, almost every holiday event there is a new tradeable rare.

Black santa hat
Christmas Scythe
Holly wreath
Fish Mask
Rubber Turkey
Crab Hat
Cloak of seasons
Crown of seasons
Christmas Tree hat

Okay yes I know a few were added " few "   but not enough to make any real difference.

looking at the Auction House all the old colors people are now asking almost double what they were before the new year's event.  This is only going to negatively affect the game.

No new player is going to grind long hours just so they can buy one and those who do are being robbed. You should not reward players for hoarding items just so they can make an easy profit.  40-50m Today 100m in a Month.  This will only get worse now that they know they can control the market and prices on them for one more whole year.

My big issue with this is majority of them only trade hands in the stake scene, I have seen players refuse to sell and basically say I will only stake for it.  " So go all in on a coin flip of sorts against players who have 10+ ".

Problem with this is if by chance these hoarders lose it does not affect them they have mass amount to fall back on.     Most other player's do not.

Yes this does happen I have seen it countless times and it makes sense why sell it if they do not need the GP unless the other person will overpay by a large amount. 

Some will give into temptation and do the Stake bad news for the server that player who only wanted a pixel hat to wear on his or her head now lost all their GP and has now quit the server.

Basically what I am saying is stop raising prices on items and robbing hard working players it only hurts the server long term

You're suggesting that adding more hats will raise the price of hats. An interesting theory indeed. But the reality is that it doesn't matter what people are asking for hats. All that matters is what people are willing to pay for hats, which when time-averaged, will always be a decreasing function of the number of hats in circulation. And releasing more hats --> more hats in circulation.

Okay when the hoarders own 90% of all hats in circulation and are saying " I will only stake for it unless you are willing to pay 100m+ i will not sell it "  you will all see I am right, never underestimate player greed on RS.   Also I notice the new hats are pretty low right now but that is so the rich players can buy more of them and do the same thing with prices on those also.