So, I wanted to put things in a bit of perspective for everyone who is complaining about the price of Madara. To pull Edo Hashirama for the same price as what Madara is going for, you would need to spend on average 50 c/i, $1 USD, across the 3000 pulls. With that in mind, along with Madara you also get: Practice Pill of the Eight Inner Gates*30, Purification Breakthrough Pill*3, Sasuke [Susano’o] Breakthrough Pack*2, Treasured Tools Ultimate Essence*7, and Quick Chakra [Red]*1; as opposed to Edo Hashirama which gets you awakening materials and other ninja fragments in the GNW treasure. Making, in my opinion, Madara a much better investment then Hashirama.

THAT BEING SAID I firmly believe that this recharge event could have been handled better. As s117 kira has stated, that if you would have put smaller amounts of the fragments across multiple events the Madara would have been more welcomingly received. I'm unsure why Oasis didn't spread out the fragments gained across the full Infinite Tsukuyomi Special Rebate, other than them not realizing the kind of commitment that it would require for someone to spend that much in one month.

Daiske said, "Madara is very special ninja and he is not supposed to be obtainable that easy. You have one month to recharge enough for him. It's almost Christmas so people most likely spend on other things as well. We want to give our players an option to recharge for him slowly instead of fast and big recharge for him in one week," (page two of this forum thread, on 2018-11-28 21:10:48) which seems contradictory to me, you want people to recharge slowly for him, however you are still putting a restrictive timeline on his purchase during the time of year that people are already spending a majority of their money. Going back to my original comparison with Edo Hashirama, the reason they can have Edo Hashi for such a high price tag is because people can get him over the course of a year.

Sorry for the long winded break down, however I feel like people just see the price tag and they make assumption saying that he is overpriced. I would say he is appropriately priced, however the distribution of the fragments and the timeline of the event is where the pains being vocalized in this thread are.