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Friday, December 21st 2012, 7:47am

Weekend Sale

http://www.runesofmagic.com/en/newsdetai…idi-vici-1.html

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There is much glory to be earned on your adventures in Taborea, but beware: Danger is imminent at every turn! Haunting rumours of foul creatures and harrowing dungeons along the stormy coast of Kolydia have residents shuddering by the tavern-full!
You should always make sure you have the proper equipment before charging into the fray – so don’t miss out on your chance to add some special items to your arsenal this weekend!
COME face to face with nasty bosses with the help of the Raid I and II Packages with savings of 40%! In addition to popular items such as Advanced Bind Lifters, Purified Fusion Stones, Attribute-Purifying Stones, Equipment Attribute-Purifying Stones, and Random Attribute Extraction Stones, these packages also contain powerful elixirs and other useful items to prepare you for the terrifying dangers of Taborea!
SEE your character breeze through levels with the Level Up I and II Packages and save 40% on Golden Repair Hammers, Phoenix’s Redemptions, Arcane Transmutor Charges, Small Purified Packages, and Transport Runes, as well as God’s Redemption Tickets and Daily Quest Tickets – what more do you need to take it to the next level?
CONQUER all that stands in your way!
These offers can be found in the Item Shop under Hot Sales from Friday, the 21st of December 2012, at 13:00h AEST to Wednesday, the 26th of December 2012, at 23:59h AEST.
A Christmas highlight awaits everyone!
The most desired items have been put under the Christmas tree:

  • Advanced bind lifter
  • Attribute-purifying stone
  • 8x Purified Fusion Stone
  • 100 Arcane Transmutor Charges

Get these Christmas offers quickly from 23.12.2012, 13:00h AEST until 24.12.2012, 22:00h AEST in the Item Shop under “Top Offers”.


Package 41: 339 Diamonds


Package 92: 275 Diamonds


Package 42: 419 Diamonds


Package 91: 215 Diamonds
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Friday, December 21st 2012, 1:28pm

Have to agree, stop with the packages already! I want item sales, i don't need or want the extra garbage that's stuffed into your packages.

This is just another sale where i don't buy anthing.

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Friday, December 21st 2012, 1:40pm

Wow this new package angle is just terrible, high prices and 50% of it useless. No sales team you are not awesome.

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Friday, December 21st 2012, 2:29pm

Same, need item sale, not package. Another sale that I will not be buying diamonds for.

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Friday, December 21st 2012, 3:01pm

Just another case of a sale that has no bearing on the actual people that play still. Cant they do a poll on their FB page or something?

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Friday, December 21st 2012, 3:53pm

Yeah... Everyone knows that Veni, Vidi, Vici is supposed to be gasha sale, not package sale. It was gasha sale last two times we had it, now they went and messed it up. Take out the packages, bring in the gashas. People love gashas. Bah, humbug!
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Friday, December 21st 2012, 4:06pm

Quoted from "vfwiffo;582010"

Yeah... Everyone knows that Veni, Vidi, Vici is supposed to be gasha sale, not package sale. It was gasha sale last two times we had it, now they went and messed it up. Take out the packages, bring in the gashas. People love gashas. Bah, humbug!


Focus on the topic, whether it be gashas or the sale was called the mount sale all of which are moot, single item sales are what the player base wants... if all these items that were offered in this sale were on their own diamonds would have been flowing a lot more freely then it will be this weekend.

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Friday, December 21st 2012, 4:47pm

Another nice sale, nice on someone's desk/file and terrible sale for players in the game.

Throw permanent bag in any of those packages and sure, I will get some, but like this - hell no.

In the time other games offer free stuff or at radical discounts (just got game for 7 bucks that regular discount price was 30?!) some like 80%, this sales department is trying to milk already dead cow... how rude... :D

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Friday, December 21st 2012, 4:49pm

Gameforge... can't you ever do ANYTHING right? I need everything that's in those packages, and I would spend at LEAST 5K diamonds this weekend, but the fact that they're in packages means you'll be lucky to get a couple hundred. This is getting ridiculous.
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Friday, December 21st 2012, 4:50pm

Maybe they should think about an emergency maintenance on this weekend sale while they're at it
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Friday, December 21st 2012, 4:55pm

Quoted from "GarySandstorm;582014"

Focus on the topic, whether it be gashas or the sale was called the mount sale all of which are moot, single item sales are what the player base wants... if all these items that were offered in this sale were on their own diamonds would have been flowing a lot more freely then it will be this weekend.


Can you remind me when the package sales became something unusual? I have 2.3 stacks of Home-Sweet-Home runes that I got over 1.5 years ago and have used 2 of them. Now, I might be occasionally prone to bouts of insanity, but I am pretty sure I didn't go on a buying spree of item I don't want and don't need when it was sold as standalone. I can also give you some skill and experience potions of even greater vintage, probably over 2 years. Don't use them, except occasional filling of XP/TP charms. Didn't buy them, either. They came with the stuff I wanted to buy.

Now, if they started using grand golden repair hammers as a fillers to bump up the price (which was done, and I have a few of those I don't want or need), I would get annoyed. Same goes for IMNSHO horribly overpriced charms. Not just a waste filler, but expensive waste filler. I don't see anything particularly useless and expensive being packaged just to bump up the price.
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Friday, December 21st 2012, 4:55pm

And now unscheduled maintenance, let'S see what they break now before leaving for their Christmas vacations lolll. This is gonna be hilarious, they will forget to put log in servers on lollll.

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Friday, December 21st 2012, 4:58pm

It would be end of the world if sale this weekend was something players wanted. It sucks that they never reconsider sales, they mostly DO NOT CARE if it sells or not, or what players think.

It sucks, especially knowing that this is supposed to last until Christmas.

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Friday, December 21st 2012, 5:50pm

They must get a kick, out of all the complaints.

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Friday, December 21st 2012, 6:02pm

I would like just once for someone from the sales department to open a thread and for a week or so just answer questions from the players. I would even give them the right to delete any obscene posts in the thread and ban the person who made them from the forums. At least that way we could get some idea of how the sales come about and why they do what they do. They also could get some idea (which I doubt they currently have) about what the players want and how to keep them happy and make the game grow.

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Friday, December 21st 2012, 6:06pm

im wondering about the last bit on the euro front page it says

Additionally, A Christmas highlight awaits everyone! The most desired items have been put under the Christmas tree:
  • Advanced bind lifter
  • Attribute-purifying stone
  • 8x Purified Fusion Stone
  • 100 Arcane Transmutor Charges

Get these Christmas offers quickly from 23.12.2012, 13:00 CET until 24.12.2012, 22:00 CET in the Item Shop under “top offers”

Hopefully that section wont be grouped into 1 packaged and simply sold as individual components

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Friday, December 21st 2012, 6:21pm

Sales Team Must go

Oh, I'll Click that..
Oh, I'll just Randomly Make up a Price charging 200% more on some sales
Offer, Packages with -40% price decrease.. i mean 160% Price Increase..
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Friday, December 21st 2012, 6:56pm

Quoted from "vfwiffo;582031"

Can you remind me when the package sales became something unusual? I have 2.3 stacks of Home-Sweet-Home runes that I got over 1.5 years ago and have used 2 of them. Now, I might be occasionally prone to bouts of insanity, but I am pretty sure I didn't go on a buying spree of item I don't want and don't need when it was sold as standalone. I can also give you some skill and experience potions of even greater vintage, probably over 2 years. Don't use them, except occasional filling of XP/TP charms. Didn't buy them, either. They came with the stuff I wanted to buy.

Now, if they started using grand golden repair hammers as a fillers to bump up the price (which was done, and I have a few of those I don't want or need), I would get annoyed. Same goes for IMNSHO horribly overpriced charms. Not just a waste filler, but expensive waste filler. I don't see anything particularly useless and expensive being packaged just to bump up the price.


Exactly my point, all of those items are usefull, but most of us dont have income to buy 6k diamonds. I have guildies who only need puri packs, some who only need abl's some who need cleaners and others who need charges. They only have enough resources for the items they need right now. They wont be spending any money because they cannot afford to purchase a package that contains items which they have no need current need for. These packages only benefit a small % of players who require most or all of them.

If you forgive my old age that i have been in this game, i do recall the days when we had a sales team who had more than 1 brain cell between themselves... when packages we sold combined with single items in the same sale. The packaged deals offered a overall higher discount and the singles were also discounted but not as great. Maybe I am delusional and made this up as if to distract from the grim reality.. if not can anyone else confirm my insanity of logic?

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Friday, December 21st 2012, 7:08pm

Quoted from "GarySandstorm;582066"

Exactly my point, all of those items are usefull, but most of us dont have income to buy 6k diamonds. I have guildies who only need puri packs, some who only need abl's some who need cleaners and others who need charges. They only have enough resources for the items they need right now. They wont be spending any money because they cannot afford to purchase a package that contains items which they have no need current need for. These packages only benefit a small % of players who require most or all of them.

If you forgive my old age that i have been in this game, i do recall the days when we had a sales team who had more than 1 brain cell between themselves... when packages we sold combined with single items in the same sale. The packaged deals offered a overall higher discount and the singles were also discounted but not as great. Maybe I am delusional and made this up as if to distract from the grim reality.. if not can anyone else confirm my insanity of logic?


No, you are correct. I have been around for quite some time, and the sales that you mentioned did in fact exist, and allowed for people to get what they needed, and only what they needed. That is a bygone era though. It seems that if the boneheads that come up with this packaging would ever come here and read a few threads, they might.just might be able to comprehend that while a few might want to buy the packages as currently offered, the vast majority ask and have asked that they be separated, and discounted accordingly during sales.
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Friday, December 21st 2012, 7:25pm

Quoted from "GarySandstorm;582066"

Exactly my point, all of those items are usefull, but most of us dont have income to buy 6k diamonds. I have guildies who only need puri packs, some who only need abl's some who need cleaners and others who need charges. They only have enough resources for the items they need right now. They wont be spending any money because they cannot afford to purchase a package that contains items which they have no need current need for. These packages only benefit a small % of players who require most or all of them.

If you forgive my old age that i have been in this game, i do recall the days when we had a sales team who had more than 1 brain cell between themselves... when packages we sold combined with single items in the same sale. The packaged deals offered a overall higher discount and the singles were also discounted but not as great. Maybe I am delusional and made this up as if to distract from the grim reality.. if not can anyone else confirm my insanity of logic?


Yes, this is a general "stock up sale", not the specifically targeted one that you buy for a particular purpose.

I look at it as a sort of appetizer sampler platter you get at your local restaurant. You get some stuff you'll eat right away, some you will probably put into your doggie bag and some that you are pretty sure is gonna go right into trash.

Most sales are like you described, though - single purpose or dual purpose. But, hey, it is not like potpourri sales never happen. Just part of rotation.
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