Originally Posted by Unregistered

Think about this logically. Do you really think that $10 for a little piece of digital information is a "good deal"? It isn't even that much of data, and certainly isn't giving you access to more game. I would consider $10 quite an expensive item in ANY game's cash shop.

Yet by deals like these ones, when a "cheap" one comes up, you guys start snatching them up desperately, because of how "good" the deal is.

Again, these kinds of transactions have been the norm for a while now, no matter where you look. It's been in MMOs for ages, it's creeping into mainstream games like COD and Overwatch, and it's what keeps mobage afloat. Some people value virtual waifus that come with cute attack animations with HCGs, some would prefer to marry their shipgirls, some want the hottest/most broken unit in the game, etc. Extend that to people who buy figures, dakis, and whatever else on your shelf and in your room that looks pretty but doesn't actually do anything, and it's not hard to see a connection.

Or like Rupturez says, take-out and beers only provide a few hours of satisfaction at best, but people do it all the time anyway.

And this is going to very quickly approach the slippery slope of "how is any hobby *worth* anything", so we'll leave it at that and go back to how bad of a deal this is, even if you like some good-old Wazakita art.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Right guys, that's what I meant. What I said might've sounded a bit rude, but my point was that if they always had the $10 6*, then you wouldn't think that's cheap anymore. You might even think about passing on some of them. $10 for JUST an ugly christmas rose with no guaranteed 5*? That's robbery! But a $3 6* would sound like a great deal.


It's all relative. Unless you're a real whale (probably in the tens of millions in networth), you'll be psychologically affected by this. To them, there is 0 marginal cost of giving you a 6*. But they want to make as much profit as possible, so the sacrifice some days to make bank on other days.


That said, I'm not sure if this was a smart move right before christmas, the time when they'll probably get the most sales

That makes more sense. I mentioned before how a few people were complaining about the $15/$30 skill/dressblooms in the shop being too expensive, and considering that golds were recently priced at $30 in a step-up, and rainbows are typically $50/$60, paying half that or a little over half that for essentially half a dupe isn't a bad deal at all.

But some people got used to the Black Friday sales and were somehow hoping for $5/$10 blooms instead, which if that happened would just fuck with our perception of a gold/rainbow's given value and hurt sales in the long run.