tiomono said: Painmonger said: A normal 4* offer is 1 cover, 10K iso, 3CP & 8 elite tokens for 3600 HP (roughly $25).This is 1 7/8 cover, 1 CP, 7K iso & 1000 HP (worth about $8) for $10.It's almost worth it for the HP alone & still less than 1/2 the cost of a normal 4* deal with almost double the covers. You've got to be trying pretty hard to call that price gouging or predatory...Still not buying it. Maybe not price gouging but it's definitely predatory. We get 450 shards through playing the two 12 day events to completion. That got us 1 spiderham cover plus 50 leftover shards. Then a $10 dollar deal to let you use those 50 leftover shards to get 2 more covers. Why not let the deal be 800 shards? Because they are "preying" on the customer that doesnt want 50 "wasted" shards sitting on a limited character.
Painmonger said: A normal 4* offer is 1 cover, 10K iso, 3CP & 8 elite tokens for 3600 HP (roughly $25).This is 1 7/8 cover, 1 CP, 7K iso & 1000 HP (worth about $8) for $10.It's almost worth it for the HP alone & still less than 1/2 the cost of a normal 4* deal with almost double the covers. You've got to be trying pretty hard to call that price gouging or predatory...Still not buying it.
Omegased said: HoundofShadow said: If it's not OCD, then it has to be the need for instant gratification. In this case, it's the need for a full cover now, instead of in the future. Extra 50 shards are useless now, but over time, they add up. Except it's not. we can't earn shards for him.Do you honestly not see this as somewhat shady? "here's your login gift! Merry Christmas!! oh, you want to use that gift? well... pay me $10."for the third time, I feel like they should have made this 800 shards, and never given a login gift that is useless.
HoundofShadow said: If it's not OCD, then it has to be the need for instant gratification. In this case, it's the need for a full cover now, instead of in the future. Extra 50 shards are useless now, but over time, they add up.
broll said: tiomono said: Painmonger said: A normal 4* offer is 1 cover, 10K iso, 3CP & 8 elite tokens for 3600 HP (roughly $25).This is 1 7/8 cover, 1 CP, 7K iso & 1000 HP (worth about $8) for $10.It's almost worth it for the HP alone & still less than 1/2 the cost of a normal 4* deal with almost double the covers. You've got to be trying pretty hard to call that price gouging or predatory...Still not buying it. Maybe not price gouging but it's definitely predatory. We get 450 shards through playing the two 12 day events to completion. That got us 1 spiderham cover plus 50 leftover shards. Then a $10 dollar deal to let you use those 50 leftover shards to get 2 more covers. Why not let the deal be 800 shards? Because they are "preying" on the customer that doesnt want 50 "wasted" shards sitting on a limited character. Predatory? You're being ridiculous. It's a smart exploit of human psychology that every company that sells things does. It's as predatory as everything ending with 99 to seem less expensive...
HoundofShadow said: It's time to stop saying there's no way to earn Spider-Ham shards because there will be a way in the future, just that the future is not right now.
Daredevil217 said: You all are thinking too small. In 2027 you will have earned that bonus Spider-Ham cover assuming you played for 8 years and didn’t miss a node. How sweet it will be!!
Godzillafan67 said: @Tony_Foot, was D3 more generous with his covers before? I've been in and out of the MPQ life, and this is the first chance I've had at getting Spider-Ham. Mine's now 1/1/0, and I truly am tempted to fork over $10 to add two covers.
RickOShay said: This offer is not Predatory, let's be careful about calling things by that name. If Spider-Ham would have been produced with 12 maximum covers EVER earnable, then they offered a purchase deal for a 1-time-ever 13th cover... That would be predatory. As others have stated, planning for the 'extra shards' to sit on a character is a business tactic. Maybe some players will be annoyed by these shards, maybe some will be incentivized to spend, while others couldn't care less. It's hardly different than getting a coupon on a store receipt "50 Shards off your next purchase", or gas costing $2.65.9
Bryan Lambert said: Man, folks have some Stockholm Syndrome for late-stage capitalism.This offer isn’t a coupon or a “shave a penny off to make it seem a dollar cheaper”. Shards to money analogies don’t work because you can only get shards from the devs and you can only use them for one thing It’s actually a really weird offer because it’s only appealing to people in a certain set of circumstances the devs specifically put people in.It’s an offer for which the value effectively doubles if you did one of two things - get the free gift, or get the free gift and get all 40 shards from the two events. To anyone outside those two groups, the offer makes zero sense. It’s not even really in the dev’s benefit because by withholding almost nothing from the offer (750 shards vs. 800) they exclude potential customers AND erode customer goodwill by making it clear that their gift wasn’t genuine. It’s not really predatory per se, but it’s unseemly, off-putting, weird, and if it’s the model for shard distribution and purchase options going forward, is just going to create more of a sense that they’re messing with us instead of offering a fair exchange of money for goods and/or services.