Offering the umbral chest in addition to the 450 keys makes purchasing 450 keys more enticing for people with low will power/gambling addiction/alot of money.
Like all treasure hunter promotions, their purpose is to take advantage of people with the aforementioned qualities. To continue to milk this game dry of any and all revenue possible for the benefit of the Chinese based board of directors who own Jagex. Who at the moment are facing bankruptcy, so expect some even more ridiculous shit like guaranteed 5x smouldering lamps during dxp.
Absolutely no care for the game's economy and how flooding the game with items during these various promotions irreversibly damages it.
Zero regard for the value and 'rarity' of purple items which will crash due to the rapid influx of them during this promo.
Literally injecting hundreds of 200m prizes in to the game.
I'm not against mtx, but Jagex have been pushing it so aggressively, shoving it down our throats and in to our faces at every turn for years. And the promotions are so overpowered and damaging to the game's integrity and economy.
They know adding umbral chests to the 450 key (most expensive) option will get more people to buy it in a short space of time (limited time offer) and that's all they care about. not the game, not the playerbase. Money, solid cash.
19-Feb-2019 20:00:52