I'm curious if there's a spending *ysis at Oasis for each of these events. I'm sure no one is recharging specifically to get Konan anymore (maybe a small number of people want to 5 star her for some dream Susano Sasuke team) or recharging to play another tedious RNG wheel full of Coins (at least it's not Ramen!) It seems at odds with how often we see her (/them) in events.
I've just searched my bank statement on my disposable income account for the word "Naruto" (I don't recommend anyone do this) and found that I've spent $1,800 on this game since November, and even I see weeks like this as a break to spend that money on other things instead. If you want to make money off events, make them fun or satisfying. If I wanted a gambling addiction I'd go to an online casino, if I want to pathologically build ninja teams until I'm on the street I'll go here - but I can't build ninjas by converting 20 ingots into 30,000 coin "rewards". I may have mental/impulse control issues that makes me spend this much on a bunch of pixels, but I'm not *.
As for Minato, a guaranteed way to get him is nice, but coupled with an $800 USD entry requirement for a gimmicky ninja (and if we've learned our lesson from Hiruzen, who started at $600 USD, then $400 USD, then as a fragment giveaway in every event afterwards) it'd be wise to hold fire and wait for him to come down, or just grab his frags up until the point you intended to spend, and top him up later when he inevitably comes down in price. I understand that it's not a "40k ingot for 1 Minato" transaction, you get him as a bonus for spending that much... but there's actually no incentive to spend that high in this event cycle. If you're spending full price for things in the permanent ingot shop, it feels bad, especially knowing that the sage treasure event will give you 30-40% off exactly the same item, and spending on the 30,000 coin wheel feels even worse, knowing that the Lucky board is a much better way to spend 20. Maybe the mission boxes will be nice, but 40k nice? Remains to be seen!
Additionally, trust is pretty shaky right now (what with the Hiruzen going down so quickly after buying him, and all of these mid event-cycle recharge events coming up with no warning/retroactive good will to people who recharged on the Thursday and were punished for doing so) and willingness to spend is going down. If you want to get it back, you have to make an event worth spending on and acknowledge the mistake - stop telling people that you can't do anything to help them if they recharged, and stop this 20 ingot for X coin transaction (with no incidental redeemable point bonus) - for me, seeing coins or ramen on a spend event is an instant "no".
tl;dr: event bad, trust failing. This post was last edited by 101***@facebook at 2017-1-26 07:33