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May Madness buildings are over $200 each?

KeithOfTheForge

KeithOfTheForge

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Maybe I never did the math behind their other special offers when buildings cost diamonds but the May Madness buildings are over $200 each?!? Unless I’m missing something, the only way to get May Madness coins is to buy them at pretty much $1 each and many of the buildings cost over 200 coins, topping out at 255 coins.

Naming this “May Madness” definitely sounds appropriate.
 
Five or ten dollars even, I might have bitten; but they must have been on drugs for these prices. On that note, anyone for shares in a nice bridge in Brooklyn, New York?
 
Inno has absolutely lost their minds. Let's say I decided to blow $225 on the Crystal Cascade. I'd have to buy the 2x50 and 1x25 today AND then 2x50 again tomorrow morning to get 225 of the tokens to then get it. If I bought everything on the board today it would only give me 165 tokens.

They are so goofy they even prevent us from going mad and buying these things by putting up a buy wall. Sheer lunacy!
 
McBluefire said:
Inno has absolutely lost their minds. Let's say I decided to blow $225 on the Crystal Cascade. I'd have to buy the 2x50 and 1x25 today AND then 2x50 again tomorrow morning to get 225 of the tokens to then get it. If I bought everything on the board today it would only give me 165 tokens.

They are so goofy they even prevent us from going mad and buying these things by putting up a buy wall. Sheer lunacy!
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They have since added unlimited $99.99 and $149.99 bundles. lol
 
Just An Observer said:
$10 a building or 12 for $100 would have made some real $$$ for INNO. Odds are they do not even get back what they paid their programming team for making this sale. The Price Is (Not) Right...LOL!
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Never underestimate some people's willingness to impulse buy at terrible prices :p If the $300 crystal cascade was $10 instead they'd have to sell over 30 times more of them. I'm sure they'd sell more, but that much more? Quite probably not.

They're going whale hunting with buildings like that - not midrange-spender hunting (that's what passes are for).
 
xivarmy said:
Never underestimate some people's willingness to impulse buy at terrible prices :p If the $300 crystal cascade was $10 instead they'd have to sell over 30 times more of them. I'm sure they'd sell more, but that much more? Quite probably not.

They're going whale hunting with buildings like that - not midrange-spender hunting (that's what passes are for).
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During the Great Depression, a man in downtown NYC had an applecart. On the cart was a sign: $1M Apples. Someone asked him how many did he think he could sell at that price? His reply: "I only need to sell ONE!".
 
"May Madness" - exactly what a management team with no intelligence would impose to try to cash in. Contempt for the customer, contempt for the game play, and a strategy that will drive people away. Idiotic.
 
xivarmy said:
Never underestimate some people's willingness to impulse buy at terrible prices :p If the $300 crystal cascade was $10 instead they'd have to sell over 30 times more of them. I'm sure they'd sell more, but that much more? Quite probably not.
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I think perhaps that logic is flawed. If you make one sale at $300 what's to say the same person wouldn't have spread out their $300 purchasing power over several purchases at $5/$10/$20 per? Players who spend big are going to spend big anyways, in the meantime the merchant is losing out on a lot of small sales that make all the difference in a healthy bottom line.

And to, in the case of foe - It costs absolutely nothing to produce the product being sold. Customers are being sold thin air and the kicker is that they don't even own anything. All your purchase insures is the right to lease foe's product in accordance with their rules/policies.
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KeithOfTheForge said:
Unless I’m missing something,
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Because it's structured in the same vein as the Princely Gift offers; Diamonds + % increase.

You still get the exact same amount of Diamonds as you would if you were buying Diamonds on their own.

The main difference is this restricts you to $50 diamond purchases (which personally I really do think they should have made it upto $200, like with regular Diamond Purchases. Because of how it scales).
 
It's very simple, instead of complaining about how overpriced the event items are, send the clear message it Inno and not buy anything. See if that will make a difference to their thinking. Unfortunately, there will be some dummy that stupidly shells out that kind of cash just to be first. Here's your sign.
 
Never even considered buying the coin/cash items, but got a Forest Guardian for 2650 (free) Diamonds each for 9 of my 11 cities. The ones that do GE and GBG. FG gives 330 guild goods/day in FE, plus both attack and defense boost for defending armies in GE (345%) and GBG (215%).
 
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