While I won't quibble with your math, I will quibble with your conclusion.
When anything goes from Beta to live, Inno owes no one either a list of the changes, or an explanation behind them. They only owe Beta users what changes are happening as the event is live.
I also understand that magnitude of the changes left many content creators flat footed. So eager to share the math, you forgot how the world works, more specifically, how Inno operates their business. Maybe some of you will be more cautious next time.
Changes needed to be made, they made them. No explanation needed, the event met expectations, one building, entirely free.
When people make purchase decisions about events, they use the information provided from Beta and from content creators; inno knows this. If I had come out with the math saying it was 2 freebies, Inno owes no one anything. Inno offered to put their backing behind MooingCat, and he accepted it. While not an official source, there is implied trust. It's like inno saying "we trust him enough to put him on our official channel, so you can trust this source."
So how the world works is that people get very frustrated when an inno backed/trusted source gives them bad information. (Not unlike when Mods are mistaken and say things like the abort limit was targeting RQ players, not botters- and then later in a Q&A session, the devs confirm that it was targeting bot users..
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It could have/should have been prevented, Whether it's allowed or profitable or not, Inno used players' trust in Moo as a source to bait players into spending on the event. If players knew it was going to take 8k-12k diamonds instead of 0-4k to get a second fully upgraded building, a lot of players would not have spent $ or diamonds. People from inno's media team watched the video and knew what he said. At the very least, they could have told him they were making a change, so he could correct his numbers or give a disclaimer.
Since the Archology 2020 / Checkmate Square nonsense, I usually put a disclaimer that things can and do change from Beta to live. This change was bigger than other I can think of.
Note: Changes like this
help my channel grow, so for selfish reasons, it wasn't a big deal to me. I even will get my 3rd Eagle mountain with $0 spent despite still having only collected 1 ticket from incidents across all my 7 worlds.
So does that mean you still get tickets from incidents, contrary to what you claimed?.
Must have missed that. Can you show me where they did announce that?
I love that there are about 3-4 that are "subbed" to me, just so you can argue with everything I post.
Very flattering and thoughtful that yall offer so much rent-free living space.
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