Xenosaur
Well-Known Member
@Pericles the Lion
You're still going to use lots of diamonds that you have or need to get. THE ONLY thing that's changed is that to UNLOCK less overall diamond use, you can't spend diamonds to do it anymore (like we used to do...), you need to NOW spend $15 cash (most likely PER WORLD you play).
It's a tectonic policy change in a game that's 10 years old, yes. The status quo has ALWAYS been that you buy diamonds or earn them, and that is the event and game currency for everything.
But this is an massive inflection point. They are opening the door to a new model for them and for us.
Everyone's gonna have decide on this themselves, or if the plethoria of things we USED to spend diamonds on, will ALSO turn to CASH only.
Is this dilution of the historic game currency? Yes. Manageable now - but dilution.
The bigger question is - How aggressive does this become? In other words, where do they take the cash policy and how diluted all the diamonds we've got stored, will get going forward.
Remember: You can play this event without using ANY CASH. It just costs you more diamonds to get what the cash unlocks to help expedite building acquisition.
You're still going to use lots of diamonds that you have or need to get. THE ONLY thing that's changed is that to UNLOCK less overall diamond use, you can't spend diamonds to do it anymore (like we used to do...), you need to NOW spend $15 cash (most likely PER WORLD you play).
It's a tectonic policy change in a game that's 10 years old, yes. The status quo has ALWAYS been that you buy diamonds or earn them, and that is the event and game currency for everything.
But this is an massive inflection point. They are opening the door to a new model for them and for us.
Everyone's gonna have decide on this themselves, or if the plethoria of things we USED to spend diamonds on, will ALSO turn to CASH only.
Is this dilution of the historic game currency? Yes. Manageable now - but dilution.
The bigger question is - How aggressive does this become? In other words, where do they take the cash policy and how diluted all the diamonds we've got stored, will get going forward.
Remember: You can play this event without using ANY CASH. It just costs you more diamonds to get what the cash unlocks to help expedite building acquisition.