Talk:Promotions Dino May 23 2012/@comment-99.235.76.57-20120606204005/@comment-5109847-20120607224020

Hey, don't get me wrong, I think it is absolutely ridiculous that you get 80-90 crystals back for something that you paid 400+ crystals for originally, and pumped thousands of coins into. I get that the whole concept is silly. I actually spent thousands of those "free" crystals on dinosaurs before I found out about the trick and was fairly disappointed that I had "wasted" all those crystals, but you live and learn.

The whole crystal to coin ratio is messed up beyond measure in this game. For example, right now if I wanted to pay $20 I could get something like 280 crystals...or 100,000 coins!! Those coins I can collect in a couple of hours, but even maxed out on banks and such it would take me over a month to get that many crystals...forgetting how many I had to pay initially to buy all those banks. Yet somehow they want me to think that 100,000 coins is equivalent. Like buying a 40% better store is often 499 crystals, when the base building is maybe 100k at most. They have absolutely no concept of how they equate to each other, but probably don't care either as long as people keep buying.

That's the only reason I made that comment. Obviously if I pay 449 crystals for a dino I'm not going to be happy if they offer me 80 back once I've paid to feed it to max. But when I get a duplicate, I figure I already blew my crystals on the first one, so I might as well sell the duplicate back for some sort of profit, right? And the only profit that matters later in the game is crystals, not coins. Eventually coins are easy. That's all I was trying to get across.