I’m out of dubs – at the worst possible time…
For those of you who don’t know what dubs are – that’s one of the currencies in the game Puzzle Pirates. Like many online and facebook games, there are two types of money in the game – the money you earn in the game (in this case, Pieces of Eight, or Poe) and the money they sell to pay for the game (Dubloons a.k.a. Dubs). But, unlike the Zynga games, Puzzle Pirates gives you the options to “buy and sell” your dubs in the game to other players. That means, a player can play the game and enjoy all the benefits of it without spending any actual hard cash at all. It’s really a neat way to go, and it beats the way the facebook games do it.
BUT – like the real life stock market, the Dub market fluctuates depending on what’s going on in the game world. Right now, they’re offering a new Limited Edition ship AND running the Gold Box promotion (for 12 dubs you buy a gold box that could have some really neat stuff in it, or maybe not – it depends). When this goes on, the dub prices climb, because the free players are all trying to buy dubs (supply and demand). Every so often, they offer a color box promo (buy dubs, and get a limited edition colored box that has special colored clothes, pets, familiars, ships etc.) When this happens, more people pay real money for dubs, then turn around and sell them on the market driving the price of dubs down. Again, supply and demand at work.
So where am I? I not only spent 40 dubs on the latest ship (a skellie sloop), I also found that I could buy parts of Lillyth’s very expensive steam punk outfit cheaper on one of the smaller, less important islands. So before the supply of black cloth disappeared, I pounced and ordered the outfit – another 20 some odd dubs for that. So if I need dubs for something else, I’ll either have to pay 2400+ poe per dub (rather than the 2200 they drop to during the color box promo) – or buy them when there isn’t any added incentive to buy them.
Like I said, bad timing…