Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35065776-20180808110835/@comment-35284508-20180808151227

Alumni72 wrote: Then I played one single room, and after that I get an offer for 2x the rubies for the same price. I cannot believe the order of these offers was in any way a coincidence. It is well known that MT targets it's marketing to what it knows about your game. You never get an offer in rubies that would cost more than the rubies you have, yes the 2X or 3X ruby purchase talismans come when your ruby count is low and you get special offers for just about everything (energy, dispels, certain fixers... ) when you might need them.

You may call this tricky marketing but once you know that they do this it can be quite helpful. Think of the flood of high value packages you could have to wade through if they didn't know what you could afford in rubies. How annoying it would be to get 'buy now or its gone' offers priced at 10 rubies more than you have. This is actually a time-honored practice across all cultures in small communities. The local grocer doesn't say they have a 'special price for you' on things you don't ever use or can't afford. If the price goes up on what you need when you walk in the door you know they are a weasel and try to find some other place to get the item. If the price goes down when you walk in you have a great relationship (even if they are a weasel to the tourists).

I try not to pay in cash except when buying rubies because I know how to generate the 2X deal and the combo of a good buy on a package and paying with discount rubies always beats the cash price. The only thing I consider underhanded by MT is after a 2X buy on rubies you very occasionally get a 3X offer. But even that I found useful on one occasion because I did purchase more and it allowed me to make a larger purchase with rubies that I really wanted to try out.

I guess what I'm saying is to know who you make purchases from. MT at least trys to give some  value rather than exploit. I suspect some of the flood of new players we get can be related to how other marketers have treated them.