Display MoreWow, you give the reason...many players weren't able to consistently get the optimal value...just WOW.
I will not comment this reasoning.....
As for "is it more expensive ... not at all ?
It is, i stated it already and gave data.
Example:
I will buy 10 stones 5 different, 2 stones each, from orange shop.
This will cost me 450 dias + stones + gold
Before the change I was able to reset the shop for 105 diamonds,
Buying the exact 10 stomes had NO ( ZERO ) diamond cost for the individual buy, just the reset + stones + gold.
Comparison:
Before: 105 diamonds
After: 450 diamonds
Please don't tell us it did not get more expensive.
I can understand, that you want to make things easier, ( i don't see why..but it's up to you), but when you calculate prices, you should not consider the highest prices people paid because of not knowing how to use simple maths.
Now all people pay the higher price.
No more risk of overpaying ( lol million times) now it is 100% guaranteed overpaying....
We’d like to take a moment to address some of the recent concerns and clear up a few misunderstandings.
- First, the numbers used on your data are based on Prestige Benefits, which are not connected to the changes we’re discussing here. Prestige is a completely separate system, and its benefit was recently adjusted from Shop Reset to Gold Reduction. If you’d like to share feedback on that change, the Prestige section is the best place to do so.
- We understand that this update has impacted some players, especially those who had developed very optimized ways of using the old shop. We’ve listened to your feedback, and we want to acknowledge those concerns. However, when balancing a system, we have to look at the entire player base, not just the 1–5% who used the shop in a highly specialized way.
- The old shop, while it did have certain advantages for experienced players, was also one of the most complex systems in the game. Over the years, we’ve received hundreds of messages from newer and more casual players saying they avoided the stones entirely because the shop was intimidating and difficult to understand.
- The new prices were not chosen at random, and they are certainly not 400% higher as has been suggested. They are based on 650,000 purchase logs over 6 months of data. When we look at the server as a whole, the difference in total diamonds spent between the old and new systems is just 0.16%.
- In fact, our analysis showed that most purchases before a shop reset were for only one type of stone in each color. The idea of frequently buying multiple different stones in a single shop cycle simply wasn’t how the majority of players used the system.
- Our goal is to make the system clearer, fairer, and more approachable for everyone, while keeping overall costs in line with what they were before.
We’ll continue to monitor both the data and your feedback closely. If we see that further adjustments are needed, we will for sure make them.