How good is the 5* offer?
Sneaky_Gremlin
Member Posts: 9 ★
New offer came up today. I'm just curious about how good people think this offer is.
In particular, I just started month 2 on my account so I am still in the intermediate bracket, have a few 5*s, about 4 4/40s, and am nearing the end of act 4 chapter 3.
Seems to me that essentially $200 is a bit expensive for what you get out of this.
Let us know what you think. Thanks for your time!
In particular, I just started month 2 on my account so I am still in the intermediate bracket, have a few 5*s, about 4 4/40s, and am nearing the end of act 4 chapter 3.
Seems to me that essentially $200 is a bit expensive for what you get out of this.
Let us know what you think. Thanks for your time!
How good is the 5* offer? 92 votes
Excellent deal!
3%
3 votes
Good for OP, meh/bad for most.
7%
7 votes
Meh, it's alright.
17%
16 votes
Bad deal, pass on it and get back to the grind, slacker!
71%
66 votes
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Forgot to add the deal...
I suggest you invest those units on upgrading masteries instead.
I'm going to say something that will seem weird to most readers. I think if you're spending cash to buy the offer it has some merit, but if you are spending units that you've earned in the game I think it not as good of a deal.
Whether a deal is "worth it" or not has nothing to do with what anyone else thinks about it. First, value is relative. But second and more importantly, the value of an offer depends on what you are getting for it, and you aren't getting what you think you are getting. You generally aren't getting "things." You're getting *time*.
Everything in that offer are things you could get in-game through game play. So you really aren't buying the thing so much as you're buying the time to get the thing. You would have gotten them anyway, you're just getting them sooner. How much is that worth to you? Well, on top of getting the things in the offer sooner, there's the extra bonus that those things could accelerate your progress. You might get a 5* champion a month sooner than you would have, and that might mean you complete content faster than you would have, and three months in the future you might actually be two months ahead of where you would have been otherwise, not just one.
That's what you're buying. You're buying the time it takes to earn those things, and you're buying the accelerated progress that having those things sooner would produce. Is it worth it? It depends. In my opinion, if you are playing in a manner where you're saving up units from gameplay and that represents the bulk of your units, I think there are better ways to spend them. I think spending on masteries, for example, and learning to make the most of those masteries will produce better long term results than that offer. So I don't think that offer is worth it compared to the opportunity cost of depleting your units you could spend on other more valuable things.
But what if you're just going to throw cash at the game to get those units? Well, if you are the kind of person that would be willing to spend a couple hundred bucks, and you are very early in your progress in the game and want to step immediately on the gas, I think it is a reasonable offer. The benefit you get is worth the money you spend, if you think that level of expenditure is reasonable in the first place. If you are deeper into the game, then 5* shards are easier to come by and the amount of acceleration you're buying on a relative basis is much lower, and I think it is less worth it. And there's no opportunity cost here, if you're willing to spend more money to get the units you will need for other things like masteries.
At the end of the day, we do not buy "things." We don't own anything in the game. We are buying time and enjoyment. If you're spending money on something you will enjoy, only you will know if that enjoyment is worth what you're spending on. And if you're spending money to either save grind time or to jump forward into the future in terms of progress, again only you know if that time saved is worth the money. The best that anyone else can do is point out the opportunity costs associated with an offer. What the offers were like in the past and what they are likely to be in the future, and what other things might be more valuable for the same cost. But they can never tell you if an offer is an "A" or an "F". Only you know what your time and enjoyment is worth and for that matter what the cash is worth.