Extending Discount Period of 7.4 Exploration Bundles and Re-Enabling for those that didn't Purchas

So then you’re also retroactively crediting dablooms to players who purchased odins in order to buy the 7.4 deal already?

Many bought those rather than waiting for spring cleaning in order to get that deal.

If you do not do the above, this would be the very definition of bait and switch. It would also be showing EXTREME favoritism to one group of the player base over another. You have stated clearly and repeatedly that this is not what the contest is about, and, as a result, you will not tolerate it. Do you truly mean that?

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Lormif

so you have no clue what a bait and switch actually is. It also does not show favoritism, it is a correction for a mistake they made.

Odachi

It's a good argument that players bought units to get the resources before anyone knew it was ever going to come back, a player today can preload those units and get enough dubloons to buy roughly 1 more t6b and t3a.

I bought it but it was all from earned units, however, if anyone wants to credit my account 1.2million dubloons I wouldn't object 😉

GroundedWisdom

That makes no sense.

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Demonzfyre

so you have no clue what a bait and switch actually is. It also does not show favoritism, it is a correction for a mistake they made.
Lol, grab a dictionary and look up “bait and switch,” then do the same with “favoritism.”

No, you have zero clue as to what bait and switch is. Absolutely zero.

Bait and switch is advertising something and not having advertised item available and pushing the consumer to buy something more expensive in it's place. That's bait and switch. It's comical that you tell someone else to look it up and you're wrong to begin with.

What exactly is your problem with this? If you bought the deal originally, you can still do spring cleaning and be set up for 4th of July. Any of us that passed on the 7.4 deal either don't have those units left or are still saving them. We still have to buy the offers to get the doubloons anyway.

It makes zero sense as to why anyone would be upset they're releasing this offer.

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Demonzfyre

When you advertise something as valuable (“act now in order to get this deal”), and then you extend it or rerelease it, thereby decreasing the ADVERTISED value of the originally advertised offer, that is a bait and switch.

The issue is that people could now be buying 3 additional odins in order to get the original 7.4 deal and now get spring cleaning stuff. Now granted they would have the additional units because they no longer have to spend on the 7.4 deal, but that’s not what they were intending to buy in either case because of this switch.

Again, many would have gladly waited for spring cleaning to buy units in order to buy the 7.4 deal. But that was precluded from this offer originally and that was the !!advertised!! value of the deal! Hence this is a textbook bait and switch, even if that wasn’t the original intent.

They're different offers with different values. They aren't the same thing.

Again, you could have bought the offer originally and bought spring cleaning.

Or

You could have bought spring cleaning and now buy the offers. What's the difference?

Not only that, you can't get the same amount of resources from spring cleaning as you can from the offer.

GroundedWisdom

If that's the case, then they would need to retroactively provide everyone extra materials who ever bought an Offer before a new one came out.

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GroundedWisdom

If that's the case, then they would need to retroactively provide everyone extra materials who ever bought an Offer before a new one came out.
The difference is that this offer was advertised to get people to buy it before spring cleaning BECAUsE that was the only time the offer would exist - that’s the bait.

Now it is being changed to be available after the spring cleaning - that’s the switch.

I know if we were talking with each other in person, I’d be able to get my point across lol.

That's conjecture. The Offers are always there regardless of what comes next.

Odachi

If that's the case, then they would need to retroactively provide everyone extra materials who ever bought an Offer before a new one came out.
The difference is that this offer was advertised to get people to buy it before spring cleaning BECAUsE that was the only time the offer would exist - that’s the bait.

Now it is being changed to be available after the spring cleaning - that’s the switch.

I know if we were talking with each other in person, I’d be able to get my point across lol.
No, no you wouldn't. You're wrong here on the forums and you're wrong in real life.

How are the mods still allowing you here!?

I took it upon myself not not quote you or acknowledge but you have been thriving the last few days with personal attacks on individuals expressing their opinions. The paragon thread is a disgrace that the mods let you post not a single constructive point just trashing everyone else for having a contrasting opinion and voicing their objections.

Forum rules 1 and 2 fyi

1. Don’t shame other Summoners for their decisions or lack of experience within The Contest. This community gets thousands of new members every day who are looking for advice, education, and friendship. Keep advice supportive and constructive. With your mentoring they may become that perfect Alliance member you’ve been looking for. We want this community to thrive with new voices, if we see that someone is being harassed we will take action.

2. We expect all Summoners to treat each other with respect. Insults, personal attacks, harassment, inflammatory posting, or generally rude posts will not be tolerated in either the forums, or private messages. This also includes the use of inappropriate, vulgar, discriminatory or offensive language of any kind.

I won’t be back to this thread to read any response which will probably use phrases around freedom of speech and/or being well within yours rights to yada yada I’ll just pm mods these threads where you keep violating forum policy to make this a nicer place.

Speeds80

Lol I don’t think I’ve ever seen gw change his mind on anything regardless of how many (ie everybody) people disagreeing with him so I think you maybe underestimating his stubbornness, I see both sides of the argument here, it’s slightly unfair, I’ve been holding off 7.4 till I ground out the 12k units so doesn’t really effect me, but I don’t think it’s to the point where they will bother compensating to appease that slight unfairness

Demonzfyre

If that's the case, then they would need to retroactively provide everyone extra materials who ever bought an Offer before a new one came out.
The difference is that this offer was advertised to get people to buy it before spring cleaning BECAUsE that was the only time the offer would exist - that’s the bait.

Now it is being changed to be available after the spring cleaning - that’s the switch.

I know if we were talking with each other in person, I’d be able to get my point across lol.
No, no you wouldn't. You're wrong here on the forums and you're wrong in real life.
How are the mods still allowing you here!?

I took it upon myself not not quote you or acknowledge but you have been thriving the last few days with personal attacks on individuals expressing their opinions. The paragon thread is a disgrace that the mods let you post not a single constructive point just trashing everyone else for having a contrasting opinion and voicing their objections.

Forum rules 1 and 2 fyi

1. Don’t shame other Summoners for their decisions or lack of experience within The Contest. This community gets thousands of new members every day who are looking for advice, education, and friendship. Keep advice supportive and constructive. With your mentoring they may become that perfect Alliance member you’ve been looking for. We want this community to thrive with new voices, if we see that someone is being harassed we will take action.

2. We expect all Summoners to treat each other with respect. Insults, personal attacks, harassment, inflammatory posting, or generally rude posts will not be tolerated in either the forums, or private messages. This also includes the use of inappropriate, vulgar, discriminatory or offensive language of any kind.

I won’t be back to this thread to read any response which will probably use phrases around freedom of speech and/or being well within yours rights to yada yada I’ll just pm mods these threads where you keep violating forum policy to make this a nicer place.

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Graves_3

If that's the case, then they would need to retroactively provide everyone extra materials who ever bought an Offer before a new one came out.
The difference is that this offer was advertised to get people to buy it before spring cleaning BECAUsE that was the only time the offer would exist - that’s the bait.

Now it is being changed to be available after the spring cleaning - that’s the switch.

I know if we were talking with each other in person, I’d be able to get my point across lol.
No, no you wouldn't. You're wrong here on the forums and you're wrong in real life.
How are the mods still allowing you here!?

I took it upon myself not not quote you or acknowledge but you have been thriving the last few days with personal attacks on individuals expressing their opinions. The paragon thread is a disgrace that the mods let you post not a single constructive point just trashing everyone else for having a contrasting opinion and voicing their objections.

Forum rules 1 and 2 fyi

1. Don’t shame other Summoners for their decisions or lack of experience within The Contest. This community gets thousands of new members every day who are looking for advice, education, and friendship. Keep advice supportive and constructive. With your mentoring they may become that perfect Alliance member you’ve been looking for. We want this community to thrive with new voices, if we see that someone is being harassed we will take action.

2. We expect all Summoners to treat each other with respect. Insults, personal attacks, harassment, inflammatory posting, or generally rude posts will not be tolerated in either the forums, or private messages. This also includes the use of inappropriate, vulgar, discriminatory or offensive language of any kind.

I won’t be back to this thread to read any response which will probably use phrases around freedom of speech and/or being well within yours rights to yada yada I’ll just pm mods these threads where you keep violating forum policy to make this a nicer place.

In contrast, mods keep deleting comments from anyone who rebuts him. Go figure.

laserjohn26

You could be honest. You don't care what the policy is or what was changed. All you care about is it didn't benefit you. If it benefited you, you would not be here crying.

BigBlueOx

I know the OP is outta touch if I’m agreeing with GW and DF…

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Gamer

Lol, I don’t understand all of the ad hominem arguments. You’re certainly welcome to have your own opinion. If you have one, just share it.

I’m fine with the policy helping more people, but if you’re going to do that you can’t pretend that in doing so you didn’t create a situation in which the result is that you mislead a bunch of people into buying something they otherwise wouldn’t have bought if they had the info.

I’m happy that this bait and switch may help some of you, but that way of thinking has a very short term benefit imo. Having an open and honest contest in which you can make decisions and purchases with confidence in the reliability of the terms is better for all of us in the long term.

Also the offer wil always be there it first tomorrow the orgin sale end for the 10k so u could had wait before go all out one 7.4 so I’m really can’t se the bigger picture here

GOTG

I have 24k units from Arena, will spend 10k to buy it. Really need that one.

LeNoirFaineant

I kind of get OP's point on the one hand. If you bought units to get the 7.4 offer and bought units again for the spring cleaning, you are worse off than someone who buys units for the spring cleaning and then uses those units to get the extended 7.4 offer. But I don't think Kabam needs to do anything about it. People that bought units for the 7.4 offer got what they paid for. The fact that Kabam decided to extend the timing doesn't change that. Sometimes some people get a better deal. It's amazing how even when Kabam does something pro player like extending the offer people still find a way to complain.

Gamer

I kind of get OP's point on the one hand. If you bought units to get the 7.4 offer and bought units again for the spring cleaning, you are worse off than someone who buys units for the spring cleaning and then uses those units to get the extended 7.4 offer. But I don't think Kabam needs to do anything about it. People that bought units for the 7.4 offer got what they paid for. The fact that Kabam decided to extend the timing doesn't change that. Sometimes some people get a better deal. It's amazing how even when Kabam does something pro player like extending the offer people still find a way to complain.

But again no resone to buy unit in the first place 12k unit is stil good value and even then the spring clen happen one day before the discount.
Though so the only complaints is he hav is he didn’t wait

GinjabredMonsta

Lol, I don’t understand all of the ad hominem arguments. You’re certainly welcome to have your own opinion. If you have one, just share it.

I’m fine with the policy helping more people, but if you’re going to do that you can’t pretend that in doing so you didn’t create a situation in which the result is that you mislead a bunch of people into buying something they otherwise wouldn’t have bought if they had the info.

I’m happy that this bait and switch may help some of you, but that way of thinking has a very short term benefit imo. Having an open and honest contest in which you can make decisions and purchases with confidence in the reliability of the terms is better for all of us in the long term.

This wasn't a bait and switch. You can say terrible communication, but calling it a bait and switch is just trying to get people worked up.

Daddrieda

Maybe take off the timer? Might make it a permanent thing at the side by to slowly progress for the Paragon title.