Thread:TexasSweetie/@comment-28129975-20160512162035

 Hoping and desiring something using one’s heart is completely different from thinking and deducing something using one’s brain.

 My very first response to Xenon should have said “Yes, Xenon, I think you are right,” rather than, “you are right!” My enthusiasm and vigor with my wording probably prompted them into making a mistake of their own. That was my bad, I apologize for that. But after looking at the historical data that was available, I deduced that someone made a typo. Sorry, but that is what I thought and I still believe it. Yes, it is also what I want, but one has nothing to do with the other. It is just plain common sense.

 I have figured out that there are a number of people who put in a lot of time and effort to keep all this information available to us. I believe that this time is given of their own free will, not in a paid position, although I am not sure of that, and that is none of my business. Either way, I really appreciate the work that you all do.

 However, none of that gives anyone the right to speak so condescendingly to someone. I was not in any way saying that if I “want” something, that that should make it so. I was attempting to explain why I “think” that someone out there made an honest mistake. Now, if that honest mistake was corrected, it would benefit us - the end users. That is my desire. But regardless, I do believe this is to be true - and separate from my wants. Following is my short explanation of why I think this.

 Dragon Story / Team Lava / Storm 8 is a business. They are in the business of making money for their company and families. Their chief source of revenue – I believe – is from generating in-games sales through their multitude of games available in the app stores. I think they are pretty good at it, based on the fact that they have many games played and enjoyed by many people, who also seem to spend a lot of real money to purchase in-game sales. That is their goal & more power to them. I say that sincerely, as a brand new small business start-up entrepreneur myself.

 Now they do have to juggle the game of ‘keeping their customers happy enough to keep playing and continuing to purchase in-game sales’ against ‘making the goals so hard that it drives their customers away’. It is pretty plain to see that is why they constantly tweak the numbers in these various events. They do not want the events so easy that no one spends money to get to the rewards. But, they are also be smart enough to not make it so hard that it drives the customer away.

 Looking over the past 10 world events, you can see their tweaks here and there – sometimes making something a bit easier, sometimes a bit harder. I assume that they make these adjustments based on their sales figures over a given time during such events. Once again, this is only common sense – based on a business’s desire to make money, without driving away its customer base.

 So it is fairly easy to see the adjustments here and there … until you get to world event #21 and the items requirement for the Blossom Dragon. The “2,850” is a glaring typo. Maybe it was supposed to still be 1,850 or maybe they were planning to tweak that number to 2,000 or 2,050. I don’t know. I just feel with everything in my gut that someone made an honest typo there.

 The correct people at S8 may not even be aware of it. I don’t know if anyone over there looks in on sites such as this one or even the forums on their website. I don’t know if the people at the forums are S8 employees or also give their own time to help out. If they are S8 employees, I don’t know if they are the correct people or have contact with the actual development team.

 And even if they are now aware, they may fix it, or they may decide to let it be and see how this plays out.

 Either way, I do hope that it changes which is total different from I think someone made an honest mistake.

 This is not directed to anyone at DS/TL/S8. This is just my thoughts to those of you here at wikia which for the most part are amazingly helpful and supportive to one another.  