Tales of Tales
Junyi
Tales of Tales
Good. If this is true it's probably the best thing Gaia's done in ages.
Maybe it'll finally be a wake up call to the people who still insist on buying those things and wrecking the economy
You'll get no argument from me on the inflation problem (It might be time to think about a little redenomination), but that's a little harsh. I mean, it's like buying a carton of cigarettes, bringing them home, setting them on top of the fridge, and waking up to find out that at midnight, all cigarettes were to be manufactured at a fifth of the size they previously were. And when that happened, even the existing cigarettes all shrunk too.
"Yeah! Serves them right! Stupid smokers! I hate how they just go around smoking everywhere and making a cloud of toxic stank outside of doors!"
They're annoying, they're harmful, and sure, we'd all be better off without them. But someone still bought them as they were, and the product they have now is not the product they purchased. And
that is the issue.
No offense, but the buyer is not getting ripped off. Cigarette's are a product that you'd expect to always remain the same, there's no chance involved so it's not really comparable. Gold gens are more like a lotto ticket, just because you and 10 other people won $1000 one time doesn't mean you're going to (or entitled to) win that amount or more again.
They are advertised as "win up to *gold amount here*". You could win 1g from it and still get exactly what you were promised.
True. Cigarettes weren't a very good comparison. Lotto tickets aren't really a good comparison either, though. And neither would a slot machine, or anything where you put something in without a guarantee of getting something out of it.
The worst outcome for a golden lunchbox was still, gold-wise, about three billion. (I don't think I ever got less than that amount) And no, we're not
entitled to anything. We could get exactly what it says on the tin by getting one gold. Why should anyone complain? It's still technically giving us what it says it'll give us, right?
Let's look at it another way. Not from a standpoint of entitlement or a wrecked economy or what Gaia should do to fix that economy:
Altering a product without notice so that it provides overall less satisfaction (a general term here; let's not split hairs on this one) to the customer (general term again, meaning anyone who spent real or virtual currency on the product) -- regardless of whether or not a provider is entitled to make these changes without notice -- is a bad business decision.
And the problem I had with your initial comment wasn't the point you made about the economy, but the "Serves them right" sentiment about the effect it has on the people who purchased this item.
We're not entitled to any guaranteed prize out of an item. This is true. But it still sucks.
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