New player calendar, not monthly calendar, unfortunately.
I wish even one of these days was replaced with War Coins. Even something stingy like 5 a month would still only amount to one “free” Warband a year…
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Didnt know there is a “[New Player] Login Calender” (never been a “new Player” since there are calenders) - so thought we talk abotu a “New [Player] Login Calender” with other reward order and no useless treasure maps.
Sorry, thought to postive, should have known since x updates thats not realistic 
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Lol. Your parsing of the phrase didn’t occur to me at all. Stupid ambiguous English language.
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I was under the impression maps were replaced with war coins too 
War coins are the GoW equivalent of naps for babies.
Free for new humans (new players), and adults (mid to veteran players) most often have to pay, but sometimes if RNG can will it, can nap for free.
(How I view 505’s business decisions solely in regards to GoW. Outside of GoW, they are usually killing it. 
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This is a practice called “price anchoring”. If you claim something is at an outrageous discount, there are shoppers who will snap it up for no other reason than “it’s a good deal” or some such.
The monthly Path to Glory provides the buyer with a Mythic troop at the end of the month and costs $50. The new campaign elite (lol) pa$$es cost $10 and the first three have all contained a new Mythic troop. There’s a reason people have tripped over themselves to buy these. For years, the only guaranteed way to secure a Mythic troop cost $50 (and until more recently, it gave you a random one - changing it to give an unowned troop was a good change) and people grew accustomed to that price.
What a company values its microtransactions at is likely based on a combination of market analysis, historical analysis of people who do spend, and the desire to make something look like a “deal” to attract impulse buyers (hence every offer saying it’s X% off and essentially NEVER showing up for sale at its “base price”).
It’s all smoke, mirrors, and marketing.
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What I most don’t like about those war coins is that unless we actually see a daily task with them it means the new achievement for unlocking a warband is one of those “pay for trophy” nasty things…
There was a giveaway of 35 coins in one of the days of holidays, but that’s not enough to get a warband, so one still has to pay 11$ for the coins pack to get the achievement…
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That’s why they’re called lootboxes.
IRL friend of mine got a daily offer for 65 Warband Coins recently for 200 gems I think it was, so he was able to get the achievement + 2 slots & banner.
Meanwhile, I keep getting the useless offers of some crappy keys or delve treasures I don’t care to buy…
Yep
My account would be worth millions of dollars at the dev’s claimed value
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