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    So recently we just had our double cents, yay.

    And i logged in today to find a button thingy in the shops saying Gift a key, Get a key.

    Curious as to what this was i clicked on it,

    You buy two keys for $11USD and 1 HAS to be sent to a friend so you're really only getting 1 key for $11.

    A) I don't want to pay for my friends to get an upper hand in the game, i pay for MY advancement.

    B) If this is to what is going to replace the previous silver key promos where they used to cost 50cents per key its not a very good change. (Not to mentioned it is costing us an extra $1 technically)

    And C) I like many others splurged that extra bit of cash to buy up double cents knowing that silver keys were around the corner and now we cant even buy them using these cents and use want us to splurge out more money just to get them?

    Not trying to start a hate thread, but i hate this idea.


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    Bought cents expecting to be able to buy keys in the shop only to find the Buy a Key, Gift a Key rubish. I'am on Benefits so can't afford to throw money away.
    Only people you will get paying $11 for a key is somebody with more money than sense.
    50 cents a key in the shop, you would have made money from loads of people Evony, even tight people like me.
    $11 a key, stupid.
    Its mentality like this that has ***'t up the economy. Make max profit.
    Shame people don't realise selling 1 thing for 100% profit dosn't work when you can sell 30 things at 10% profit and make more money and keep your players happy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by david_k700 View Post
    So recently we just had our double cents, yay.

    And i logged in today to find a button thingy in the shops saying Gift a key, Get a key.

    Curious as to what this was i clicked on it,

    You buy two keys for $11USD and 1 HAS to be sent to a friend so you're really only getting 1 key for $11.

    A) I don't want to pay for my friends to get an upper hand in the game, i pay for MY advancement.

    B) If this is to what is going to replace the previous silver key promos where they used to cost 50cents per key its not a very good change. (Not to mentioned it is costing us an extra $1 technically)

    And C) I like many others splurged that extra bit of cash to buy up double cents knowing that silver keys were around the corner and now we cant even buy them using these cents and use want us to splurge out more money just to get them?

    Not trying to start a hate thread, but i hate this idea.
    wow... this is not gonna be a popular move...


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    Quote Originally Posted by tipperary1 View Post
    wow... this is not gonna be a popular move...
    At first glance it won't be popular. People will eventually learn to accept it i guess.

    It's shrewd marketing though. And encourages teamwork and alliances. Costs 5.5$ or 55c per key with a partner.

    With the packages getting better and better, and some even having those rare strategems in them, one can only think that 50c per key is too easy for them.
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    I agree that when they were 50cents i thought it was cheap, but essentially you're getting 1key for $11dollars, i'd rather just spend another $19 dollars and get a key, vesta and 330cents.

    Not to mention when you go to buy them it says System error 579.

    /fail.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Melri View Post
    At first glance it won't be popular. People will eventually learn to accept it i guess.

    It's shrewd marketing though. And encourages teamwork and alliances. Costs 5.5$ or 55c per key with a partner.

    With the packages getting better and better, and some even having those rare strategems in them, one can only think that 50c per key is too easy for them.
    ppl wouldve used the double cents to stock up in anticipation of this being a promotion that wouldnt require anymore physical spending, people have been talking about this for a good month both on the forums and off hoping for a chance at silver keys and now theyre required to spend more for them. yes it is shrewd marketing by evony, but it will be unpopular by more than just a glance.

    tbh evony havent done too well with the whole christmas period, theres been double cents yes, but packs with no new strats in them, farming collectables with a heavily reduced droprate, an expensive teleporter that doesnt work, and a so-called gift that reduces your heal rate instead of increasing it. and now a key promotion that requires more spending.

    lol i hope the christmas cheer is still strong in the customers


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    This has to be the single most shiesty move that Evony has made to date. Advertise an item that has been in the past purchasable with existing coin along side a method to buy said coin. Don't warn the paying customers that the price and the method has been changed, and then stick it to us without even a system mail saying that we have all been screwed. I am sure that your sale of double cents packages was well over that in the past because you dangled the carrot of silver keys out in front of us. I know i myself along with many of my mates would have saved our money if you would have advertised the truth.

    Once again you have taken something that could have really gotten you ahead on the scale of popular opinion and turned your own loyal paying customers against you. i just have to ask myself how long will I tolerate this total disregard of my wants and needs.

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    Just to be completely narcissistic, I'll quote myself from another thread, lol.

    Quote Originally Posted by Morgan le Fay View Post
    It's a case of coming to an agreement as with Vesta's. If your're going to purchase the Get a Key, Gift a Key the person your're gifting to will hopefully give you a key in return. That's one option.

    I suppose it's one way of helping a non-coiner out as well, which would be awesome but it's expensive and since everyone is entering the post-Christmas austerity I'm not sure it'll be that popular.

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    Quote Originally Posted by david_k700 View Post
    essentially you're getting 1key for $11dollars, i'd rather just spend another $19 dollars and get a key, vesta and 330cents.
    the man speaks sense

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    first off this is borderline fraud. many double cent packages were bought with the expectations that silver keys would be offerred at the end of the promotion as they have in the past.

    second. 11 bucks for one key is a ripoff as is explained above. its as if evony is now encourgaging players to play multiple accts and break there own tos. personally for me its the last straw. ive been suckered in to becoming a really heavy coiner in this game but im now done. wont be buying anything more here ever again.

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