Only thing I want to say here is that I would like to see the odds slightly better at least or always have the items available to vend... getting 7-9 pairs of gloves/shoes out of every 10 spins is a little extreme in my opinion... and I have to admit, I am very unlucky and it takes me a lot to get a full outfit...
okay.. I lied.. this is the last I want to say... then I will leave this topic alone as well...
I am glad that Calanor said they were looking into that... and yes... I would never do the lucky spin if there was a chance that I would get nothing... because with my luck... I would get nothing 7 out of 10 spins... since there isn't a null item I guess you can't compare it to real casino gambling in those terms... but you do, in the long run have a chance to end up with nothing... how so you may ask?
I buy 3 spins... I get items I already have that are not vendable/tradable so I disassemble those items... Wow! I got lucky spin coins now... too bad it takes 5 of those to get 1 spin back and most of the items I get during the lucky spin are worth either 2 or 3 lucky spin coins... so we'll say they are worth 3 just because... so I now have 9 lucky spin coins, I use 1 for a spin and get yet another shoe... so I repeat and now I have 6 coins... spin again and yet another shoe... disassemble and WTF... now I only have 4 coins... and I can't do anything with those coins unless I do what... oh yeah... buy more spins... point rested...
Nice south park reference!
Tru,
I think you made a very good argument via a real example scenario against the "gamble" via "not so lucky spin" as it were. In fact when I had the chance to try it out without having to pay, my experiences were very much like how you described it. I learned by that experience very quickly that I would not want to spend even a little of my money on it. I've learned that the "eastern" usage of the term lucky, is actually quite the opposite of how the western idea of the term lucky - in other words, unlucky if you look at how things actually go most of the time. But this is the age of bad is good and good is bad isn't it? Perhaps I'm old school, but I still prefer to take my money and know what I'm going to get when I spend it.
In the olden days of Rose, I spent my $11.50 per month (buying 6 months at a time) and I knew I would be able to play the game at any time while I was subscribing and guess what? I had access to ALL the game had to offer. Now we have all of these psychological brinksmenship by the company to get us to spend money, on lucky or should we say unlucky spins, and of course the more trash talking that goes on, the better because it encourages Rose gamers to want to spend more on the IM to "one up" the next guy. I do miss the good old days when I spent more on the game, but got what I felt was something for my money. Good, solid, full featured entertainment. Now all I get is "Rose Light", which means less and less each month, while more and more of the game is moved over into the "premium category". It's enough to make me wish for the good old days, but that ain't how they roll anymore.
Edited by CoffeeMuse, 20 March 2012 - 06:36 PM.