theymos has long argued that the reason for the forum's vast wealth is because of capital gains that resulted from the forum holding onto donated coin instead of quickly converting them into dollars.

Donators and VIPs gave money to the forum when the forum really needed money. If not for these donations, the forum would not have been able to become what it is today. The forum also does not need money currently. For these reasons, I don't see the price ever being reduced.

Users can currently buy a copper membership that enables them to have the majority of the permissions of a member account, and many senior forum members have purchased copper memberships. It might be fun to create "chip" memberships (due to the shortage of chips) that give users permissions of a full member or a senior member, and possibly an exclusive sub that disallows signatures that only chips, donators, VIPs, and staff can post in.