Game & Event Hosts

To answer your question we do not have an exchange rate for vouchers.

An $8 going for 16 vouchers means 65% of members could buy this 18 times and still have enough vouchers to buy everything in the prize mart.

Adding to that a response sent to FB post this morning:

As we have an oversupply of vouchers putting a designated gold item into the prize market and then offering for a low value of vouchers compared to the average members holding balance then devalues to the AW item to the point it can never be sold for gold which means less funds go back into the pot for new art which leads to less new art come in, less work from the artist and a slow decline of new art. You have to consider a typical VIP member who never plays a game is creating 120V per year. If you are in the USA go to https://www.chuckecheese.com and you’ll see that you can play games for a day, win a few which will then let you get a small item on the same day from the prize stand. Similar to the 5 – 10 items we have available, but if you want something bigger then you need to save up the vouchers through the month. We got to a point where 50-65% of members have enough vouchers to purchase EVERY SINGLE item for the next 12 months without ever playing a game.

So to answer your question on why some of the items have increased and how that effects new art, it’s simply to not devalue an AW item to the point where it becomes worthless to stop the funding pot and as with limited new art supply then we need to protect the flow from artists to get more new art. I am aware less new art is an issue and something I will focus more on in the coming months.