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I ended up buying quite a few boxes actually. Call it my present to myself. But before I open them, im gonna wait till the 24th, equip full Holiday Set, do my lucky dance, wear my lucky trousers, kiss my hamster and pray 10 times. (Ingame and RL..)
Im well aware of the odds, and im okey with that. A bit like playing the lottery. I enjoy the suspense.
Boxes are a genius concept, marketing wise.
It's bringing RPG gaming and gambling together, with a hint of appeal to the inner hoarder we all have deep down there.
Most "free" games use itemshops, but that causes markets flooding with "rare" items.
Thus reducing the value on these items, making them less in demand, and lowering the "sale".
Boxes on the other hand allows the dev's to control the amount and type of "rare" items coming into the game, ensuring that the demand is high, thus making boxes more valuable. Since this was already done, all they needed was a way to directly selling the boxes for real money, without making a big community fuzz about it.
So thats where Christmas comes in.
And why do people desire boxes so much, when they know the odds of actually getting an item is marginally low?
The same reason gambling is a world wide trillion dollar business. If the CHANCE is there, the WILLINGNESS is there. Everyone wants to take a shortcut, no matter what it costs.
And if you do the sensible thing, and refuse to spend your nuggets on this, you will spend forever wondering if I would have gotten anything if you did buy it.
Clever eh?
Im well aware of the odds, and im okey with that. A bit like playing the lottery. I enjoy the suspense.
Boxes are a genius concept, marketing wise.
It's bringing RPG gaming and gambling together, with a hint of appeal to the inner hoarder we all have deep down there.
Most "free" games use itemshops, but that causes markets flooding with "rare" items.
Thus reducing the value on these items, making them less in demand, and lowering the "sale".
Boxes on the other hand allows the dev's to control the amount and type of "rare" items coming into the game, ensuring that the demand is high, thus making boxes more valuable. Since this was already done, all they needed was a way to directly selling the boxes for real money, without making a big community fuzz about it.
So thats where Christmas comes in.
And why do people desire boxes so much, when they know the odds of actually getting an item is marginally low?
The same reason gambling is a world wide trillion dollar business. If the CHANCE is there, the WILLINGNESS is there. Everyone wants to take a shortcut, no matter what it costs.
And if you do the sensible thing, and refuse to spend your nuggets on this, you will spend forever wondering if I would have gotten anything if you did buy it.
Clever eh?
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