I think these breeding events are going the wrong way. If SP wants us to spend a ton of gems to get the new monster just put them in a dungeon and put them up for sale for whatever price you want. Say 800 gems like Baltasar lol ( yeah he's totally worth 800 gems). At least then people who want it can buy it, rank it, go have fun.

The breed events should help new players, free to play players, create some diversity in wars. Let's use the breedable legends for breeding more unbreedable legends. Not the best, but good ones like Oghma, Judgement, Barbatos . To make more players more competitive in wars, and to help with all the dungeons, and pvp. Another fun option would be to have breed events for specific war books, to help fill them out.

These breeding events are the equivalent to the $10 beer at football games.
Everyone knows the scam now, take two of the least popular monsters and make that the breed combo. To breed the two you need you need to breed two other random, unpopular monsters. Then change the breed combo tables so you get mostly 1 and a half day epics or 1 day metal monsters to breed/hatch. Oh and run the event phases back to back to make sure part two is half over if you do manage to get one of the monsters you need from part 1. Then sit back and watch as a 1000 comments pour into your community facebook page all telling you how dumb the event is. (I seriously think there is someone at SP that loves to see hate mail).

I had one quick look at it and will totally ignore it like I've done with the last few. I rather continue to breed and rank my breedables than waste gems on this!

@Fox If you want people to participate in events like this, then you need to make them more accessible. You basically exclude 99% of the F2P and put off a large portion of the spenders, in particular casual spenders like me and many others with this event design!

the breeding event always sucks, its a gem trap...yes, no argument here.
BUT, the event prior to breeding event is good. it basically grants u at least 1 new L monster in an easy way. like mystery, or blob in this event very little to no gems required...

If they want to make these events not nearly as painful, and make the players happy, it really would be as simple as making the Breeding Guardian reduce Hatching times too.
Hatching doesn't need a completely separate Guardian, and as they eluded to in the Updates, they don't plan to introduce a new Guardian... So don't.
Just add hatching reduction to the Breeding Guardian.
It will make players happier, and I am sure folks would still likely spend gems in an event like this to refresh her once the initial 2-day time span runs out.
But, they won't listen. They never do.

Lol. Well said. I took one look & was like "well, I don't have that guy & this one is in storage. Oh, & I still don't have Blob from the event so I guess I won't participate." Even if I was remotely interested it requires gems to speed up the process before even attempting to breed. Yeah, not a fan.

@Rheyvynn said in The most cynical breeding event to date:

If they want to make these events not nearly as painful, and make the players happy, it really would be as simple as making the Breeding Guardian reduce Hatching times too.
Hatching doesn't need a completely separate Guardian, and as they eluded to in the Updates, they don't plan to introduce a new Guardian... So don't.
Just add hatching reduction to the Breeding Guardian.
It will make players happier, and I am sure folks would still likely spend gems in an event like this to refresh her once the initial 2-day time span runs out.
But, they won't listen. They never do.

While I sure would love to see many more changes (and undoing of rather perplexing recent changes), I don't think that it's that they're ignoring us. Just because people want something and they decline to do it doesn't mean they aren't listening.

The hatching guardian doesn't make sense to SP as it would throw the whole economics out of balance as there wouldn't be a gem block in the way of breeding, which would then unbalance the breeding events and make breedable monsters too cheap, which would probably lead them to decreasing the chances of getting the event monster even more...

I'm not really a fan of these new style breeding events where the results are a set of L's or a high chance of Epics. It's probably rare that you'd want all or even most of the results so decreases the value of the event.

In this case I was just trying to get Gangsterosaurus for both collection and maybe taking a shot at El Dino (I'm probably in the minority of folks that already had a Plymouth, I just liked him for some reason, haha), but after an opening of 2 Genies and 5 Epics, I'm done and now will just work through the Cell Shop event.

The new style breeding events have too high a variance in cost, especially without knowing what kind of output monsters are in the pool. With the old style at least we could determine roughly the cost per monster and decide whether it was worth going after or not.

@testcyp Starting it when I don't even have the monsters hatched is a big fail. I just won't participate. No biggie, but if they didn't want me to participate and look forward to events then they could just close the game down. If the events are not fun and rewarding, I and others will eventually give up and go play something else. There is money in numbers of players, free or otherwise which is something that this company does not seem to understand well.
They should just change the breeding guardian to a hatching one instead. The bottleneck is in hatching not breeding. It makes money sense to do so. Amazon realized that the faster you can get the product to the consumer the more likely they are to buy. It would be better if my breeding hill n tree was full and my hatchery had a spot left that would make me think I should use real money to buy and egg. As it is now, my breeding is always full waiting on my hatchery. Therefore why would I spend real money to buy something that I can't even hatch? All but the top percent of players should be trying to breed the free legendaries at all times....or you will be one of those players with no coin or food or free gems etc...

@testcyp Blob is a really good monster and plymouth is decent too. Gosh start dissing these mons. I feel these events r great cause you have the chance to get many monsters and rank them up.

@testcyp said in The most cynical breeding event to date:

I think these breeding events are going the wrong way. If SP wants us to spend a ton of gems to get the new monster just put them in a dungeon and put them up for sale for whatever price you want. Say 800 gems like Baltasar lol ( yeah he's totally worth 800 gems). At least then people who want it can buy it, rank it, go have fun.

The breed events should help new players, free to play players, create some diversity in wars. Let's use the breedable legends for breeding more unbreedable legends. Not the best, but good ones like Oghma, Judgement, Barbatos . To make more players more competitive in wars, and to help with all the dungeons, and pvp. Another fun option would be to have breed events for specific war books, to help fill them out.

These breeding events are the equivalent to the $10 beer at football games.
Everyone knows the scam now, take two of the least popular monsters and make that the breed combo. To breed the two you need you need to breed two other random, unpopular monsters. Then change the breed combo tables so you get mostly 1 and a half day epics or 1 day metal monsters to breed/hatch. Oh and run the event phases back to back to make sure part two is half over if you do manage to get one of the monsters you need from part 1. Then sit back and watch at 1000 pour into your facebook all telling you how dumb the event is. (I seriously think there is someone at SP that loves to see hate mail).

Totally agree.

• These events are better off for older unbreedable monsters not new "exclusive ones" that will be put on sale later anyway.

• The %s are too low to bother, it's a gem sink. I just ignore them or try my luck without spending any gems. I do try however in the events that give an older monster I want to rank or VIP breeding events.

• The use of Jokers is always counter productive. Like everyone can get Crushmore form the monster dungeon but Blob is less attainable, so of course they make the Joker replace crushmore not blob.

• The addition of random epics made it worse. I bred Violet and Soap Sam to get another Soap Sam I will never use.

• They made it even worse by adding more high breeding hatching monsters to the results. Example my teammate got a Genie from breeding Blob and Crushmore! water/L + earth nature should not give a magic common !

• It is ridiculous that they run the 50% breeding and hatching BEFORE the event. and then when we ask they lower timing on the unreasonably high duration commons and metal ucs and rares, they tell us "Oh but we give u faster hatching events". You give them when we do NOT need them !!

It's a commercial decision.
SP decided to milk their players harder. I've switched to the "free to play" group when the store prices went up, and as the game starts to feel more like work I'm sure I'll be gone soon.

The reason breeding events for older legends using the breedable legends or more common monsters would be great is everyone would participate. Even long time, high level players who would never use the monster in a war would do it because of increased gold production of ranked monsters.