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That pretty much sums it up though.
Even the tiered rewards spending generates that dopamine sensation to even non gold gen users.
Spend $50 to reach the top tier, ,all new items (only the new ones, some are simply re-releases) "will not be sold again" They are unique and that is special, but you have to choose wisely.
Each tier has it's own rewards and they are all just as enticing. Not to mention the fact that the Cash sale is always going on so you don't even have to spend $50, just $37.50 to get (what Gaia prices @) $50 worth of cash shop items, on top of the rewards.
Then they discount items in the Cash shop randomly, so if you catch it at a great time you are going to get an F-ton of items from the reward tiers and the discounted cash and items, jeeze! It really is hard to pass up. It's like going into the super discounted clothing store with only $100, getting like 70% off of everything and walking out with a full new wardrobe!! That s**t can get addicting xp
Still the fact remains that all of this is just PIXELS! We aren't getting anything tangible with our money other than gas tanks running on E for most of the week and partially paid bills that keep catching up with us.
A lot of people are missing the little trick to their spending tiers too, and it really is a smart play so I applaud them for it. Each tier is an even increment of 10's and 5's, but when have you seen anything in the CS for an even 10 or 5 amount? Never! That is why you can purchase $20 GC and spend 1999gc on an item, but you still have that 1gc left to get your reward! so what do you do? if you are lucky you have a couple extra GC left over and you just go to the gold shop and buy the cheapest crap item for GC instead of gold OR, you have to buy another increment of GC in the payments page. Or do a quick free Gaia cash offer wink
They are totally getting what they want out of this.
Even if you set a budget for yourself and you reach just one tier, the next one is sooo close and the GC is on sale, so it's hard to resist not spending a couple of more bucks. Like I said before, it really is a smart play. To bad they couldn't think of this before they decided that gold gens were the best option. Too bad they couldn't just keep MCs the LQI's or just create a higher priced MC along with the typical Thank You Letters.
They just done everything bass ackwards and screwed it up to a point that they can't go back from emotion_facepalm
I completely agree on all counts! The GC sales are good, but when you combine that along with "never to be released again" items (some of them VERY nice) in the spending reward tiers AND a nice sale in the cash shop, it's pretty hard to pass up.
I mean seriously? Mini Angel Wings; Angelic Sash; Golden Laurels; Angelic Pendant; Angelic Anklets; Angelic Bracelet; Mini Astra Angel Wings for $31.99??? Discounted from 39.99, of course. Which is around $25 real cash (due to the cash sale) AND some sweet tier rewards for buying something that many members wanted anyway? Yeah. Pretty hard to pass up.
But you're right: It's all just pixels, but I suppose that it's up to the individual whether or not to spend that twenty-five bucks. Though I'm sure there are many, many, MANY individuals that spend a lot more than that. One look at the tier items in the MP will clue anybody into that real fast.
In addition, there are items like the Mystery Ticket that was available for one day for $899. Yeah. 899 bucks! Yet, someone bought it and then listed/listed/listed/relisted for anywhere between 250T to 350T until their listing was finally gone. I'm sure they accepted a trade for no less than 200T from somebody (whom was most certainly a GC buyer) and they profited greatly. Depending on one's definition of profitting, I suppose.
I would be in divorce court if I spent $899 for pixels. Yet, at least one person did....
rolleyes
There is no way in hell I could buy a pixelated item that is worth the majority of my bills for the month emotion_facepalm
But yeah, I've seen it, items from the first few tiers in the MP are not that expensive, which shows how many people are forkin out cash.
Man, to those who would even purchase that amount of pixelated fakeness, I wanna punch those people in real life, because they obviously don't understand real life, at least from my lower middle class standard, which I'm sure many other people here are classed in, or lower. It's kind of insulting to even see those things in the MP and know that someone bought it/blew it. emo
I'm a bargain shopper so even $20 is more than I'd like to spend. If items remained at like under $8 in the CS after buying 10GC @ 30% discount I can accept that much. A year ago we rarely saw items in the CS over 1499GC. I don't even think that there is anything in the CS for 49GC anymore like there used to be. sad
Gaia really needs a discount store, like crap that is worth under 99GC only
I think they should turn Meka Neko (Neko=Cat=[Animal]) into an animal item shop and Roccoco into that under 99GC shop. wink
Just makes sense.
I really wish they would do something with Denier Cri emo
