Battle of the Bands Sale

GarySandstorm

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 6:07pm

Really frogster? please tell me this is an early april fools joke..
3day instruments for 59 Diamonds? Way overpriced.

Why not the 7day for 59 diamonds or offer 30day instruments?

Give me an incentive to use the itemshop, I'll just craft my instruments for free with ingame mats. Waste my time with an incompetent sales team.

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kossploss

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 6:13pm

lol.... didnt they sell the 7 days ones for 25 dias before oO?

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Vesuv1us

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 6:16pm

Yep - 7 days = 25 dia.

If you want the definition of a HUGE rip-off, this is it (aside from the NORMAL rip-offs that plague the game).

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GarySandstorm

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 6:22pm

Quoted from "kossploss;502475"

lol.... didnt they sell the 7 days ones for 25 dias before oO?

Yes they did thanks for reminding me, i knew but forgot what the price was.

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Stagg3r

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 6:30pm

Didn't you hear? The Euro debt crisis is getting worse... Da Frog is just trying to get some while they can before the whole place implodes!

Nothing like a "Sale" or "deal" to keep your loyal customers on your side. I wonder what the fanboi answer for this one is going to be?

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KatalanOrk

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 6:30pm

There isn't much point getting all hot and bothered about it. If no one buys them then they'll have enough of an idea that the sales are not good enough.

If people do buy them then, well, ranting here still isn't going to do any good. Indeed it would very difficult to call them incompetent if they can sell something at several times the cost this week than they did the last

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UncleMart

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 6:32pm

This should drive diamond prices down a TON. I can't see anyone wanting to buy any of these offers so diamonds should be more plentiful.

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Blkkntdave

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 6:35pm

In before this gets closed....

Nuff said....

Seacrest OUT!!!

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kossploss

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 6:42pm

Quoted from "Blkkntdave;502485"

In before this gets closed....

Nuff said....

Seacrest OUT!!!

inb4 edited by mod =p

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dexhunterz

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 6:44pm

Meh, it may drive diamond prices down, but I know plenty of people just sitting on dias waiting for useful stuff to go on sale. Then they'll go right back up. Diamond prices arent based on sales, they are based on what the Uber clean tier 20 People are selling the new gear for. Oh what? You want 300 Mil for an underdura unplussed untiered dagger? 100k A diamond sir.

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GarySandstorm

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 6:45pm

Quoted from "Blkkntdave;502485"

In before this gets closed....

Nuff said....

Seacrest OUT!!!

LOL!

Yea i had to fight myself to try not to get too angry and toss bad words out.
I know ranting wont do much, I just want them to know what i think about it.

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GarySandstorm

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 6:47pm

Quoted from "dexhunterz;502488"

Meh, it may drive diamond prices down, but I know plenty of people just sitting on dias waiting for useful stuff to go on sale. Then they'll go right back up. Diamond prices arent based on sales, they are based on what the Uber clean tier 20 People are selling the new gear for. Oh what? You want 300 Mil for an underdura unplussed untiered dagger? 100k A diamond sir.

Exactly. You sir get a nice shiney 5 kudos.

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mnkmurphy885

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 7:27pm

I don't get it, I really don't. First we get sucky overpriced puri non-packs, then we got pet stuff no one ever buys, and now we get instruments at like a 75% markup?

Dear Froggy: We know that you are insanely competent on the Euro side, but FA really did do things quite a bit differently here, and due to differing economies, you really need to start paying a bit more attention to what deals we are used to getting.

People have been saying that endgame is too expensive for a very very long time and the cost keeps increasing. The US playerbase isn't nearly as populated or as spendy as the Euro side, and we need you to acknowledge that and get the sales team to start checking the sales histories or get with some players that have long memories who can get you the info you need to make sales for us that make sense.

We know you're in transition, and most of us will give you some time to get with the program, but the sales team needs a brisk application of whatever torture method you guys are using now (I think Rodatas used his fists, or possibly a large hammer).

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dexhunterz

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 7:34pm

Lets see, last time I checked on Artemis the Instrument box from Malatinas was about 1-1.5 million per. So we could be generous and say 50k a diamond 60x 50000= 3000000. Meaning I can buy at least 2 chances for an instrument. Hows THAT for a gasha Frogster o.O

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NaiSa

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 7:54pm

OMG Exactly what i wanted in Item Shop to be on Sale :eek:

Its the most useful thing ever. What else can be expected of a Euro but great deals

All Hail EU............................. :rolleyes:

Really tho if this is considered a Special Sale its rather non-sale...

How many people use the intruments, Why buy when can easily be crafted, Why the huge inflation from 7 day intru's for 29 dia, to now shorter 3 day 59 dia instru's :confused:

I'm starting to wonder even more now about EU quality/management/everything now...

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RoMage

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 8:00pm

Current 'sales department' is under beta....

From what I've seen, we better get used to those so called 'sales'...

Wonder if they sell any....

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gigilomann

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 8:20pm

Well, I needed puries so i used what gold i had to buy puri packs forma dia seller.. i baught like 8 packs i beleive. so yea... they do sell

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grimoru

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 8:51pm

Quoted from "dexhunterz;502488"

Meh, it may drive diamond prices down, but I know plenty of people just sitting on dias waiting for useful stuff to go on sale. Then they'll go right back up. Diamond prices arent based on sales, they are based on what the Uber clean tier 20 People are selling the new gear for. Oh what? You want 300 Mil for an underdura unplussed untiered dagger? 100k A diamond sir.

the shints dagger? it was a stupid 400m last nite. gear is insane, no point in selling any of my diamonds. not worth it right now.

I miss the ant party

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dexhunterz

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 9:25pm

Quoted from "grimoru;502531"

the shints dagger? it was a stupid 400m last nite. gear is insane, no point in selling any of my diamonds. not worth it right now.

Exactly. Inflation of the economy only helps frogster. I remember when $40 worth of diamonds could get you 2-3 fully statted pieces of gear. Maybe not current end game statted, but decent. Now $40 may get you half a piece of gear.

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Rossbot

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Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 9:43pm

I am very displeased with this sale.
Cost of acquiring in game materials to craft the item: ~3mill.
Cost of paying in diamonds for the same item: 59dias x 60k = 3.5mill.

How exactly is this putting anything on sale?

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