I'm actually curious what the logic was behind their decision.

Again, it's virtual product so it's not like "giving away" most things even actually costs them money. I actually think the event woulda encouraged slightly more spending and made them more money... even if it was a mistake.

Unless they thought these deals woulda helped create an unhealthy game environment somehow and hurt the game in that way (which I REALLY don't think was the motive behind their actions).... then I'm just failing to see how this solution could have even been seen as a good idea.

Mistakes happen and the programmer that might be fired would actually have a lot less questions from me than the executive-type that decided it was a good idea to 'fix' the mistake like this, tbh.

Granted, I hope I've put a lot less thought into this than they have and may just not know any better.

Your comparison is terrible, they're not selling a singular product- not to mention they didn't give anything for free, there was still a price attached too it.

You can't say "Oh they lost sales, because it was cheaper" when in fact people may have never have bought it in the first place, now bought it because it was cheaper- it's the same fallacious bs people make with piracy in general.

You can't lose a sale when there was never a sale to begin with & adding hypothetical's in there doesn't make it any less true.

Read his previous post, when you give something out to a broad number of players at a certain cost, then take it away you cheapen the experience of the whole game for everyone else, now you have half a player base that feels cheated..

The thing is, from this event ninja's should be cheaper, and here is why......you get ZERO items for purchasing a ninja from this event. Just the frags... Full price with no extras....this change makes this event worthless for buying ninjas. WAY better off waiting for something like mission box event and getting 18k worth of items, extra ninjas, and plus the one you bought the points for. Seriously, all these people complaining about the price being lower aren't thinking even a little bit. They spent 18k and got tons of items which increased their power on top of the 5k madara....Frankly 10k for only frags and nothing else is pretty fair IMHO.... seriously....use your brain for 1 second...18k worth of mission boxes is a BOAT load of items, random ninja drops aside....18k worth of sakura foodpacks? Yea zero items....not a single one..... I'm super bitter about this nonsensical change.