So in a surprise Monday update, Gil has returned to Springfield with a new offer. The question is, should you bother with it? We’re going to do some financial analysis on this offer so you don’t have to! There are actually two offers on the table in this update, but let’s start off with the main focus of this promotion.

First Offer

Let’s ignore the premium box for a moment and just focus on the donut amount advertised:donuts for. When you do the math, each donut in this package costs roughly $0.06 which is on par with the 300 donuts for $19.99 USD. It’s sort of the middle of road option, not the best value, but the worst value either.

Now this option also comes with a premium box, which states includes 1 of 13 specially selected premium buildings. This is where you’re going to have to take a gamble, because you don’t really know what bonus you’re going to get. What are the buildings being offered? It sure would be nice if the game told you that, but I suppose that’s what blogs are for. Below are a list of the items you can win.

How it works

The only item that you can possibly win more than one of are the Ferris Wheel and Lard Lad Donuts. You have roughly a 9% chance of winning one of the other 11 prizes at random. If you already won that prize, you may just find yourself with one of the two duplicate prizes.

All of these buildings are things you can regularly purchase in the shop. There’s really nothing new or fantastic about this deal, it’s all economics. This certainly would have been more enticing if the “specially selected premium buildings” were things you couldn’t buy at anytime you’d like.

Second Offer

This may be the better offer, but only becausedonuts foris a deal, as this amount of donuts is regularly priced at $9.99. You’re saving two dollars with this deal and getting some in-game cash on the side.

If you’ve had your eye on a specific piece of premium content, this might be the time to buy. The price is at that sweet spot where it might make it hard to pass up, though at the same time spending eight dollars on in-game content is still a bit too hard to swallow. It all depends on how loose you are with your wallets, and how many donuts you already have saved up, because 132 donuts on its own really can’t get you too much.

You have until August 12th to decide if this latest offering by Gil is something you’re interested in.

Game Dialogue

Gil: Gather ’round the burning oil drum, children. Ol’ Gil’s going to tell you a summer vacation story!

Lisa: I didn’t know you were a storyteller Gil!

Gil: You’d be surprised at all the things Gil can do when he smells bored children with credit card wielding parents. Anyway…

Gil: Once upon a time, there was a weak, tired, grey haired old salesman who needed some money to pay for his kids’ back to school supplies.

Gil: So he cooked up a bunch of donuts, because he couldn’t afford enough flour for non-holed pastries, threw them in a dumpster, and tried to sell them to gullible kids like you.

Lisa: This story sounds an awful lot like a promotional sale…

Gil: Dang it, they said children were unable to tell the difference between advertising and reality until the age of 12!

Lisa: No… that would be the age of five.