I think this is the individual situation. After maintenance my amount of gold in the packages has not changed.

Must say the marketing of these packs treats customers as village idiots...and also is beginning to get annoying, with the amount of times the so called offers cause system crashes, as they fill your screen every time I log into game...Most of the offers are totally redundant and you have to keep scrolling to find a decent offer that is suitable for your game style.

Also FTP is not really applicable to reality of the game hence the amount of dead accounts on map.

I dont expect it to be free but some customer appreciation would work wonders for the ppl who support and pay for this game .. remember the days when you paid 20$ for a game and it kept you amused for months..sadly those days are long gone.