Free does sound lovely in it's way, BUT I feel that it would eventually have a negative impact on the community. As an older member that has worked hard throughout the years to collect everything possible (except those incredibly rare V-day items), I feel that if everything was free activity would eventually cease. Why? Because if users have a goal, they are more active. Back when monthly CIs were released, users would be posting more and exchanging more so they could earn enough gold for the new item. That made the site much more active than it is now. If everything was free and easy to get there would be no goals. No posting to earn gold and no feel of accomplishing anything.Not trying to sound greedy or anything, but when I was able to save up enough to get the Pudao(for example), it felt amazing! I was so excited. Everything being free would kind of demolish those feelings. Ya know?