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supersmarthead

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Joined: 2015-12-19

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So I did the math

Here are the costs of things in the shop, compared to real money.

$1= 10 Gems

50 Energy= 1 Gem

So, I went and looked at the values of some items.

Smiley- 250 Energy= 50 cents= About 10 1/2 hours
Smiley- 1000 Energy= $2.00= About 44 hours

Block pack- 750 Energy= $1.50= About 31 1/2 hours
Diamond Block- 1,000 Gems= $100.00 (50,000 Energy, About 87 days)

Small World- 100 Energy= 20 cents= About 4 hours
Massive World- 8000 Energy= $16.00= About  14 days

Auras- 2,500 Energy= $5.00= About 4 days

Classics- 15 Gems= $1.50 (750 Energy)
Classics- 25 Gems= $2.50 (1,250 Energy)

Crew- 1000 Energy= $2.00 (20 Gems) About 44 hours

Beta- 75 Gems= $7.50 (3,750 Energy)

Gold Membership- 50 Gems= $5.00 (2500 Energy)

So, as you can see, the prices of everything are pretty reasonable. The only thing I can't get it the massive world. $16 is way too much imo. There is more prices, I just did the more common ones I found. Any thoughts on anything? I know some things like beta already tell you the price, it's just there for comparison.

(I'm a nerd. Don't judge.)

Prodigy

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Posts: 2,613

Re: So I did the math

EE needs the money. Nice math though.

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Pingohits

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Re: So I did the math

when was 50 energy ever 1 gem?

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Bobithan

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Joined: 2015-02-15

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Re: So I did the math

Here I'll quote myself complaining about gem prices since I think they are pretty ridiculous for things that you can buy energy with:

Gem prices. They are crazy. I'll be pretending that $1 = 10 gems for this post.

An example: For the price of $10, you can buy beta membership, which is actually worth your money if you really do care about the game and don't mind throwing around a little bit of cash. Or, for $16, you can instead buy a single great world. Isn't that kind of screwy? What incentive is there to buy a world with gems? I'd much rather wait the 2 weeks to grab myself a great world than spend a whooping $16 on it. $16, in my book, isn't worth 2 weeks of waiting for a single item.

Or, the slow dot, which is around a day's worth of energy, you can buy for a dollar. $1 for getting something a day early isn't really worth it in my opinion, and I'd imagine it wouldn't be for most others either.

Additionally, with the "Ultimate Packs" coming around the corner any time now to buy all blocks/smileys/auras, the prices for single items should really be balanced to be just as appealing, because right now they are anything but.

Let's be real here: Energy is in place to give the player incentive to spend their hard earned money on the game. It preys on impatient people that want things now rather than later. However, with such ludicrous prices, that incentive is just kind of gone for your typical impatient gamer. $16 is a lot of money for an item in a simple free-to-play game that you could just get in a couple of weeks.

Now, I'm no businessman, but I'd imagine if all items available for energy had their gem prices decreased to ~25% of where they are now, there would be more incentive to put money down to bypass the wait. $2.50 for Bruce is a tall ask, but $0.70 might be a little more reasonable.

For the record, I believe the classics should remain the same price.

I'd really like to see some statistics for how often items that are normally available with energy are bought with gems. From the prices I see, I'd imagine there aren't many gem purchases at all for that stuff in comparison to beta, Builder's Club, and classics. I don't know though, I've been wrong before, which is why I'd like to know just how many energy items are being bought with gems in comparison to gem only purchases.

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