Missed the mark

Right? I fully appreciate that our game is their buisness. They have to make profits... but, this is the week to drop something of value. I have no issue spending, but I'm not spending $100 on omega mats.

If they aren't a value to you, then don't buy them. CG will, as @Bruminor said, notice how many people are buying. If they're hitting their revenue targets, the price probably will not change. If they miss their targets, they might try a sale. But every time they have a sale, it makes people think twice before their next non-sale purchase. No one wants to be the person who bought something right before a discount kicked in.

So they're going to be careful, and it's not likely the prices will come down soon, But it's also true that the only thing that will affect their prices is whether or not people actually purchase. So if the price matters to you, make your decisions appropriately and hope the rest of the player base is with you.

"Fluxie;c-2450421" wrote:
just call it what it is, this is not an anniversary its a greediversary... disgusting

They give you a bunch of stuff for free, then they have things you can buy, and you don't like them, and they don't make you spend a dime. Not even a pretend, in-game currency. Nope. Nothing stops you from taking your free stuff and giving nothing back. It's all your choice.

How and in what world is that a "greediversary"?

If they don't give you relic 5 toons, they're greedy now.

I understand that some might be bummed because they were hoping for lightspeed bundles but all in all, there ist still lots of nice stuff for free, so imho some people seem to get too emotional just because their expectations were not met. All those years before we never had them and the world kept turning.

So I simply would like to say "Thank you CG for the nice presents!"

CG would still put them out if no one bought them - because by comparison it makes lots of other packs look good. It's a marketing ploy. Let's not demonize the big spenders because we don't like the prices they're willing to pay. Just ignore the absurdly priced packs. For 99% of us they're not worth it so we save our money. For the other 1% they end up paying a big chunk of CG salaries. Everyone wins - even the F2P folks.

CG will get the message when no one buys the packs lol

Weren't the trove packs less on previous runs? I thought I remember playing the gamble cause it was kinda cheap.

"scuba;c-2450407" wrote:
Weren't the trove packs less on previous runs? I thought I remember playing the gamble cause it was kinda cheap.

Thought they were 5000 shard shop currency previously not crystals, either way I usually spend on aniversary but I’m not buying any of the packs this year so far

The trove packs may have well been 50k crystals. Anyone who buys them is a gigawhale or a newb who doesn't know the value of 5k crystals over shard shop. If I could pick the character for 5k crystals then maybe I'd do it.

The free mail gift was over the top with 25 zetas and much more. I'd be more likely to buy that than credits and omegas. I did buy the 25% bonus crystals though.

Some day when I have spent enough, I'll have finally beat the game ?