Myrielle
It's definitely easy for a user to misinterpret the event. To us, buying GC is already an act of spending.They do put these in the announcement.
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Spend Gaia Cash on anything you want during the event!
When your spending reaches one of our tiers, you’ll earn your choice of the listed rewards.
Keep spending and you will keep earning more and more rewards up to the top tier!
And they've done similar promos last year at the height of the Flynn Booty madness.
Although I'm not sure what difference does it make on Gaia's side. They must be getting some data or some quota for their items to make it worth their while to have people spend GC rather than buy. Is actually getting to move virtual inventory a thing? Maybe it helps to see what people would like to buy in the heat of the moment? That way they can focus on those items.
It really isn't as clear as it should be and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth in the same way that many things do on this site now. I'm sure that they have some angle. Your idea of what they may be doing does makes sense, but I hope that they're able to rein it in a bit.
Dalia Royce
If they did make a monthly spending event, what would the tiers be? Basing it on a three-day event of having a max reward of $160...$1000? $1500?
Oh man, I'm a bit scattered so I didn't really think on this possibility. This would be awful and defeat the point of stretching it out. I know that there are some people that are able to spend that much each month, but making a bunch of halo level exclusives would be ridiculous. And personally, I wouldn't be inclined to spend anything if I wasn't able to get the exclusives. But leave it to this site.