Originally Posted by game2534

To be fair, that 4000 NG for gold of choice is nothing but dirty attempts to get into your pocket. I don't complain about groceries or merchants want my money, I complained when price and goods and services just don't go together.

I think I see the problem here: a clash of expectations where Nutaku really can't win either way.

If they offered the 5* tickets at, say, 2000 NG, then there would be some who would point at this (in light of the fairly recent controversy over the global power ranking) as further proof that there will be a need to whale in order to be competitive in the possible future by making the pricing attractive. Personally I would buy a few of those myself; $20 for my choice of a 5* is a pretty good deal.

But if they offer it at 4000 NG, then it's "they're just out for money" since most people (I hope) recognize that $40 for a 5* ticket is pretty overpriced.

The way I look at it is Nutaku is saying "We think there's a demand for this so we'll try them out, but make it expensive so that the average power of the playerbase doesn't get out of control". If a lot of people are swimming in 5* then content has to be adjusted appropriately. Hell look at the event that just started today; there are people in the thread saying that the event is too easy and have already cleared thousands of event currency. Granted, the event may -be- a bit easier than was planned...but I'm willing to bet that most people who frequent this forum are above average players; we may even have gained some new ones from PPS.

In a nutshell, I'm saying that Nutaku is a business and of course wants our money, but I'm not sold on the idea that they're out to maliciously cheat it out of us.