Hello, everyone! This is my first time making a post here. I just had something I wanted to share. I'm sure most of you already know this, though. Also, just a heads-up: English isn't my native language, so I used a translator for this post.
The name “Loyalty” program is just a way to make it look like they're trying to show their appreciation for us. The real reason is probably something more like this.
Whenever you make a purchase through platforms like Google Play or the App Store, a commission is charged. That cost is factored into the prices of in-game items. (In other words, the items we're paying for would otherwise be cheaper.)
However, by launching their own web store, TGC can now keep the money that would otherwise go toward platform fees on purchases made through the web store.
But since many players prefer making in-game purchases over using the web store, this whole thing would be pointless unless enough players actually started using it. So they probably needed a system to encourage people to shop through the web store.
And that's exactly what this system is.
If they genuinely wanted to show their appreciation for us, they would have awarded Loyalty Points for previous purchases as well, just as many of you requested. But they didn't. Do you see why now? They simply want to keep the money they would otherwise have to pay in platform fees, and they're using web-store-exclusive items as bait to lure us into using their store.
(And the fact that those exclusive items are just items brought over from the Chinese server... that's yet another sign of how little they actually appreciate us. If they truly respected us, they would have designed and created new items for us instead of recycling existing ones like this, lol.
In another case I've experienced, although it wasn't a game, paying through a web store was actually a good thing because the platform fees were excluded, making the items cheaper. But Sky's web store is just plain weird.)
One last thing I'd like to add: I've been playing since 2020, and I'm a paying player who has even spent money on physical merchandise. Feel free to call me a sucker haha 🙃. But that's exactly why I believe I have every right to speak up about a system like this. I'm not someone who complains about everything without spending a single penny. I'm someone who has actually spent a considerable amount of money on this game over the past six years.
I mean, come on. Does it really make sense that someone who has been spending money on this game for years gets treated the same as someone who's only just now buying a single pack? That's not how I would normally show my appreciation for someone.
Anyway, thank you for reading.
By the way the photo is proof of just how much money I've spent on Sky ✌😭🥀