Onmyoji's In-Game Skin Trading Market Crashes Across the Board — Players Panic-Sell at a Loss, Netizens Call It 'A-Share Market for Young People'

Onmyoji's skin trading market just crashed — not a single skin, but the entire lineup tanked. Think Black Monday, but for gacha cosmetics.

Onmyoji has a built-in skin trading house (交易屋) where prices are fully player-driven — essentially a secondary marketplace for cosmetics. However, as the original poster revealed, a string of recent scandals and controversies has obliterated player confidence, and skin prices nosedived as a result.

The original post included screenshots of ten skins' trading prices. While the top five skins are barely holding on, the bottom five are actually selling at a loss after transaction fees. The only skin that didn't crash was a box skin (匣子皮) — not because it's resilient, but because it was already worthless. It had already bottomed out ages ago, so there was nowhere left to fall.

OP summed it up perfectly: 'What an A-share stock market for young people.' That one line captures the entire situation — players spent real money on these skins, and now they're bagholders. Sell and lose money to fees; hold and watch the price drop further. One commenter clarified that the trading system uses in-game premium currency (勾玉/gourds), but this currency can be cashed out through second-hand platforms like Xianyu (闲鱼, China's eBay equivalent), so the losses are very real — people are literally losing actual money.

The comment section was almost unanimously cheering the crash. One player delivered a scathing market analysis: 'Nobody sees a future for this game. Tons of people are rushing to liquidate and bail. The scarier part? They're right to do it. Right now you only lose the transaction fee; wait longer and you won't recover a single cent.' Reads less like a game critique and more like a Wall Street bear thesis.

As for the game itself, even veteran players who quit long ago admitted that 'Onmyoji's art team still absolutely slaps — every single skin in this lineup looks gorgeous.' Others pushed back, saying 'skins are getting increasingly over-designed, worse than the default models.' The gap between Onmyoji's top-tier art quality and its dumpster-fire management is precisely what makes the situation so painful for longtime fans.

As for Zen Studio (the developer), the community showed zero mercy: 'Zen deserves every bit of this. Still playing dead, probably gonna serve up the same garbage on the 21st without changing a word.' One player sarcastically suggested they should 'learn from Shanghai (miHoYo) and lock the minimum resale price to the official price — can only go up, never down.' The sarcasm was thick, but the underlying point about the trading system's lack of price protection was valid.

One commenter declared: 'This game is 8 years old. An old game that refuses to die is nothing but a thief — hurry up and make room for new games.' Other players quickly corrected them — the game only just celebrated its 7th anniversary this year — but the desperate desire to see the game shut down was palpable. When someone checked the commenter's account history, they remarked 'the vibes are off the charts,' implying this wasn't a heartbroken veteran but likely someone with ulterior motives.

Right now, Onmyoji's skin market has entered full panic-selling mode. Once player confidence collapses, liquidating and bailing becomes the rational move — which in turn drives prices even lower, forming a classic 'death spiral.' Whether the devs will respond or attempt any kind of market rescue remains to be seen. But given Zen's track record, they'll probably just pretend the problem doesn't exist as long as they stay silent.