Runes of Magic US / AU

Yeah, I needed alot of +ing jewels, but I happened to have real life hit me, so they lost a few bucks. These random sales and diamond bonuses arent very user-friendly. Why does everything in Frogster seem to be luck related...sales...gashas...+ing...

This was posted a week ago, and since then we had a non-Friday diamond promo of 150%, albeit short lived. So, while taking advantage of short-lived promotions is going to be difficult for someone not in the system at the time of sale, I would say the answer to the subject is no, that is not just it, and paying closer attention to sale announcements in period less than a week might be prudent.

While we dont know what is planned for 3rd birthday itself and if it will be good or disappointing, it is not like the 2nd birthday had special events leading up to it 3 weeks in advance. Your join date is Feb 2011, so you should remember that.

I could care less what sales they have or how nice my tax return is, I still haven't heard jack about FA agreeing to a new contract to continue publishing RoM. The old contract is due to be up some time this month I think the 19th. I don't care if they have a 500% Dia sale I'm not buying anything until I know someone is going to keep the Servers on. FA dropped Mythos with a weeks notice to it's "loyal" players so I'm not going to trust them here not to pull the same stunt.

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This was posted a week ago, and since then we had a non-Friday diamond promo of 150%, albeit short lived. So, while taking advantage of short-lived promotions is going to be difficult for someone not in the system at the time of sale, I would say the answer to the subject is no, that is not just it, and paying closer attention to sale announcements in period less than a week might be prudent.

While we dont know what is planned for 3rd birthday itself and if it will be good or disappointing, it is not like the 2nd birthday had special events leading up to it 3 weeks in advance. Your join date is Feb 2011, so you should remember that.

You don't think the anniversary specials so far have been kind of weak ? Random diamond sales for short periods and.....? And exactly how is someone supposed to pay attention to 'sales annoucements' what sales annoucements? They annouce it as it is happening, not in advance. Sure I can go to the UK site and see that this weekend they are putting puries (stackable??), ABL's and attribute purifying stones on sale and that there is 2x diamonds from 4-8 BST. If we are getting that deal, how that translates to US time, I have no idea. How hard is it to let people know 1 day or 2 in advance of what is coming up. Just basic common business sense. I'm not complaining about the particular offer this weekend as a typical weekend sale, I am however complaining about the continued lack of communication to the people who would like to spend money on the game as well as the lack of excitement for something that happens once per year.

Yup, I admittedly have Spent very little since the new year started. The flash diamond sales are not helpful, I work alot and I'm not sitting at my computer watching RoM. Next I don't feel appreciated, .75% XP during Christmas was scrooged up! The only hype lately has been for sales, meaning we pay them to get excited? Come on reciprocate the love Frogster, its as if your giving us little so when we get something we are drooling over the bone you're throwing us.

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You don't think the anniversary specials so far have been kind of weak ? Random diamond sales for short periods and.....?

Yeah, not the best sales, no. But we did have others besides Friday.

And while I do agree that random dia sales are not all that is needed, 150% is good stuff. Remember, 2nd anniversary was supposed to be 110% for most of the week and 150% as extra super special one-time "OMG, 150%" deal. Yeah, they messed up then, but the short term 150% was meant to be the highlight of the diamond sale on the anniversary day itself. We are still in pre-anniversary sales.

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And exactly how is someone supposed to pay attention to 'sales annoucements' what sales annoucements? They annouce it as it is happening, not in advance. Sure I can go to the UK site and see that this weekend they are putting puries (stackable??), ABL's and attribute purifying stones on sale and that there is 2x diamonds from 4-8 BST.

So was the 150% sale. It was on EU page.

EU is getting the short end of the stick there. They don't get advanced warnings from US. For them, there is no pre-announcements and they get it as it happens. We get a warning by knowing what they get, and so we have time to prepare or buy zeevex or just make sure that we are near the web at time of sale.

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If we are getting that deal, how that translates to US time, I have no idea. How hard is it to let people know 1 day or 2 in advance of what is coming up. Just basic common business sense. I'm not complaining about the particular offer this weekend as a typical weekend sale, I am however complaining about the continued lack of communication to the people who would like to spend money on the game as well as the lack of excitement for something that happens once per year.

Different sales departments have different policies on pre-annoucement of sales. I have stores near me that send circulars early. I have stores that send them on time, but have them early on web. I have stores that dont have them early on web but that used to be able to be seen (because date was part of the URL and you could peek into the future by changing the URL). And, guess what, one of my favorite stores figured out that people were looking at sales ahead of time and deliberately changed it so it no longer worked and you could not peek ahead. It varies...

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And, guess what, one of my favorite stores figured out that people were looking at sales ahead of time and deliberately changed it so it no longer worked and you could not peek ahead. It varies...

Is this store a website? I could see the tactic being used to drive traffic. You want people checking 1x per day (or more) to see what the offer of the day is. The periodcity or time of the new offer should be set and consistant. As far as I can tell this doesn't apply to RoM. Have you ever went to a bar where the 'happy hour' was completely random? Ok, so you are going to get a few more dollars from the people who are already there, but what about the people that aren't there at that exact time? Just missing out on potential revenue. If the hiding of sales strategy is being employed by a brick and mortar store the sales and marketing team of your favorite store should be fired.


How about, at the very least the Diamond specials and Cash Shop specials get tweeted out when they are taking place? At least then we can get a 'push' update. Might help folks that don't sit in front of their computer 24x7 and have access to a mobile device.

I'm looking at the US twitter feed and it doesn't look like the specials are tweeted currently.