Both. A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Gems were more plentiful and troops were much cheaper, so I did buy some that way at the beginning. Since then, I’ve accidentally hit the purchase button a few times.
I’d support suggestion though to remove this. It’s irritating, a needless extra thing to click past, and in current game I can’t now imagine any situation where any player, new or old, would want to do this…
I purchased Hobgoblin after an arena run many moons ago, as it was literally the last troop lower than epic I had yet to acquire. 50 gems didn’t seem so unreasonable then. What has changed to make these purchases so bad now?
Apparently the cost of troops can vary. For me, purchasing a troop would cost 20 Gems. @JayJay mentioned 200. You said 50. I’m not sure what makes the difference.
And it’ll be great to go with this idea further: if you already have 4 copies of all troops ascended to Mythic the purchase offer wouldn’t appear at all.
Because
That’s the only point in the entire game where we have the original graphics of the game.
I miss so much the time when every chests contained 3 troops, and the feeling when after turning the 3 cards you heard “Legendary”