Noticed gems were on sale and went in to look at them, maybe purchase a few, or just go to see if my six hour chest is ready. What do I notice? New gem prices.

$50 now gets you 1,120 gems whereas this morning it got you 1,700. That’s roughly 34% fewer gems in the span of a day. The same day they’re no longer a PvP reward. What gives?

I have sunk a lot of money into this game in the 8 months I’ve been playing. I haven’t been here as long as many of you all have on the forums, but I threw myself, and my wallet, into this game. I was weathering the relic storm, weathering the bugs, and the PvP changes. But this is too much. I’m not watching my purchasing power be arbitrarily devalued by 34% overnight. I won’t be purchasing again. I likely won’t be playing by the time the race starts. Just wanted to voice my frustration somewhere perhaps it could be seen. At this point though it sort of feels like shouting into the abyss.

I was just coming here to post the same thing hoping it was a one time price or some kind of mistake. I haven’t played too long but I have spent a lot of money on this game. I will not in any way purchase gems at these prices. I sure hope someone reads this and enough people post to change it back otherwise I won’t be playing much longer.

Well SP this the straw that broke the camels back. You really want to watch the game fail I see. 580 gems less for $50?? Really?????

Actually it is not a new gems price: it is the standard pricing (without sale offer) in which you get extra gems for the normal price of gems pack. That's really tricky and confusing but it is not an increase per se. Kind of vicious especially because it looks like the common discounted offers while it is not.

@xargul No it is not a new game price. It is the same price for less gems. It is the discounted price that they offer, but the point being is it has been 1700 gems not 1120 gems. That is a loss of 580 gems at the discounted price. So it is a price increase considering that the discounted price is no longer a good deal.

@Suzznee No, look carefully and you will see it is not a discounted offer. It is a standard pricing for which you get "extra" gems if you purchase it: that is why they call it a gem "bonus" offer. But it is definitely not an interesting offer as it not discounted. I think they tried it once already few months ago but cannot really remember when and confirmed it.

As xargul said , this kind of prices pop up occasionally , no one buy usually and later we got the normal discount price 50 $ =1700 gem

Just ignore this one

@Suzznee he is correct, it's 'regular' price with a gem 'bonus'. Also, it's not the first time they have tried that. The last time it wasn't long before they reverted back to the 'normal' discount prices. I suspect hardly anyone went for it! I highly doubt that it's taking off this time considering all the lovely smelling cow manure SP has has thrown at us lately!

I finally found the solution: don't buy gems.

Yeah they have to earn those 50 gems back they gave all of us. So now it looks like that the p2p are paying for it I stopped buying gems since start of October so this isnt effecting me but I can imagine that this is a slap in the face of p2p players and an insult to their intelligence

It was a sale price because the little purple tag was on the gems indicating there was a sale, but if you think this is temporary that’s great to know!

Thank you to those who actually posted info that was helpful, and I sure hope you are right that this is temporary.

Lets keep on topic please
Thanks

I’m not sure if I should laugh or cry.

What if they are raising prices to compensate for all the players they lost with the relic debacle. Unbelievable if so....

@Dave-Orr said in Change in Gem Prices:

I’m not sure if I should laugh or cry.

What if they are raising prices to compensate for all the players they lost with the relic debacle. Unbelievable if so....

That would be a very strange business model

Has anyone been able to confirm if these gem sale prices are permanent or if they are temporary? Is there a way to find out for sure?

@GrnXnham that's not a strange business model at all. It a common business strategy in for example the pharmaceutical industry. I worked for a place that rose the price of their drugs almost 300% on some items. Sure we lost lots of customers but the ones that stayed made up for it(Medicaid/Medicare), as well as smaller production costs. Wall street loved it and out stock price went up quite a bit.

@Darkwysper many people have posted how they had these gem sale prices before. I’ve also heard that they’re trying something new with these gem prices. Nothing substantial other than people who say they know stuff.

@Ginger-Warrior
Thanks so much. I haven’t played long enough to know. I play their other game dragon city and the gem costs are the same as they always are so I am really hoping it will switch back.

Hello guys,

The price of gems didn't go up. Currently, we run temporary bonus gem offer which means that for the base price you get more gems. We will return to the discounts at some point.