If Discounted B/D Packages Would You Have Bought?

It would be interesting to know if SC had offered a discount on the Diamond with Deco packages whether they would have made more money.
Obviously players that intended to purchase diamonds in the foreseeable future would be thrilled with the offered deal as the decor are really appealing. However these are players that would have possibly bought anyway. But those of you not buying would you have been tempted to buy or even buy multiple packages if a discount had been offered?
I know I am in this group are you?

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Originally Posted by MarilynGaga

It would be interesting to know if SC had offered a discount on the Diamond with Deco packages whether they would have made more money.
Obviously players that intended to purchase diamonds in the foreseeable future would be thrilled with the offered deal as the decor are really appealing. However these are players that would have possibly bought anyway. But those of you not buying would you have been tempted to buy or even buy multiple packages if a discount had been offered?
I know I am in this group are you?

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I don't know about a discount, but maybe add the decos one price lower. Like the balloons at the $1.99 level (not the $4.99); the pinatas at the $4.99 amount (not at $9.99); and the bouncy castle at the $24.99 amount (not at the $39.99).

I had to splurge a little for the ones with the balloon and pinata. I think $39.99 (1500 diamonds) is quite alot. I think getting the bouncy castle, $39.99, is just too much for me. 😟😭😭😭

I did not purchase any of the special diamond/birthday deco packages. The discount would have made no difference to me. I have 1.3K diamonds left from my last purchase a while back, so I probably won't need any diamonds for another year, if ever.

I do think it will be interesting to see if people's diamond-purchasing behavior changes after this. For example, will they postpone buying diamonds before special updates/events where similar diamond package-with-bonus offers might be made? Since the people who made equally expensive diamond purchases before the new bonus packages were released were out of luck if they wanted the decor, I don't see anyone who has a "pixel budget" who might want one of those bonus packages spending any money until they are sure that one won't be offered in the near future.

This is further complicated by the charity diamond packages like the WWF panda. Who knows whether that type of event will occur in the future.

i WAS offered a discount for the birthday package, the cheapest one. would have cost $6.99 where im at but there was a 40% off so it was around 4 bucks. didnt make any difference since i was not happy to have to pay for decors using real money. im usually careful with diamonds and im not the type to splurge on decors costing diamonds but this is just over the top for me. i also saw the bouncy castle on my neighbor's farm. it was sooo small and underwhelming, its almost the same size as mrs gnome. needless to say, my neighbor really regretted her 60 bucks purchase as well. i dont blame her.

I still have my special-forum-title diamonds from like 2 years ago plus others I save. I am a diamond cheapskate. LOL. ;) But I would be very tempted to buy them if they were indeed reduced. More tempted than currently actually.

Good thread idea, Marilyn.

Yes, I would have bought them. I agree that they should have discounted them. :) :thumbsup: Remember when they used to have the special priced diamond package for events? What ever happened to those? I always bought them. Oh well, lots of things have changed....:unsure:

I honestly don't know.

I haven't bought any on principle (see countless threads). In short, I fundamentally disagree with advertising the deco as Birthday Deco to be attained in an unconventional way - understandably leading many to think it was going to be a challenge/rewards etc NOT something you had to spend real money on (please let's not start a debate on that here, plenty of threads for that already).

That point though, was very much compounded by the amount of money you needed to spend to get the deco, which brings up another issue for me. To buy one of each I'd have had to have spent £42. [Yes you get the diamonds, but I don't need (or want) that many diamonds, I only use them for deco, not game play. I already have LOADS left from the WWF fundraising]. Since the BOTBAN fiasco I no longer feel my game & thus diamonds, are 'safe'. Who knows when SC will decide to ban my farm for accidentally buying from a BOT or from trading with one person too often. I'd be upset if it happened, but I'd be really pecked off if I'd just spent a lot of real money on buying diamonds, so I don't. The WWF was different because that was a donation to charity - I was happy to donate the £30 and the diamonds & deco were a bonus.


If they'd had

£1.99 for TWO lots of balloons
£3.99 for the piniata
£7.99 for the bouncy castle
£14.99 for all the above

Then it might not have seemed quite so bad, but honestly, I don't know as I felt it was such a money grabbing exercise for Birthday Deco which I feel is really wrong.

Any other time sure, offer deco as an incentive for people to buy diamonds, I've got no problem with that.

I have truly been on the fence. I did purchase the $4.99 package when the money was being donated to the wildlife foundation but to spend $55 on diamonds/decor knowing the money is just going to SC and likely to encourage what I tend to believe is greed, then I have to consider what the outcome will be. If enough people buy it, that will clearly encourage more of these types of offers and while a good majority of us are adults, there are certainly enough kids playing and I think it's unfair to only offer decor for large sums of money that many can't afford.

For now, I am letting my moral compass guide me and choosing NOT to purchase the decor. Perhaps a discounted rate that seems more feasible therefore equitable would have allowed me to purchase the package. Even if it were 1 item for the first package, 2 items for the third and all 3 items for the top package at a cost of $19.99 then yes, I would have bought them in all likelihood.

Although there is little to no chance that I will ever buy diamonds, I do feel they should have been discounted. A birthday celebration, to me, is an opportunity to thank players not fleece them.

I have around 2000 diamonds, all of them free. I hoard them lol so no I would not have bought them.