How good is the 5* offer?

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!

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Sneaky_Gremlin

Forgot to add the deal...

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winterthur

A 4☆ hero crystal is being offered randomly at 2,500 units when a 3☆ from crystal pops up. Comparing with this 'offer', the shard cache does look attractive, though it is a lot of units.

I suggest you invest those units on upgrading masteries instead.

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Trash like all of kabams offers

DNA3000

Pennmabob wrote: »

I didn't think it was too bad, but prof hoff threw a load of shade on it. I mean, it's not exactly good, but it's not bad. 10 premiums is 1k units. And for 2k units you get that plus 2k 4 star shards, 2k five star shards and an ultimate crystal. I'd say that the crystals are worth more than the amount of units you are paying, but only just. It's not worth wasting your units on, though.

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.

MrOnizuka

My account is just 3months old and i am skipping this offer. While all of my ally members purchased the emma bundles, this bundles and stuffs only to complain that they get **** champs. Save up your units buddy for masteries and clearing contents. If you can get every champs in intermediate bracket comfortably, i wont recommend that you get this offer. If you cant get champs comfortably in arena, it means that you slacked off during beginner bracket