Why Tomorrowland has its own currency 🤯 #shorts

[rikhulstein]

8.50 pearls for that food item sounds kind of reasonable whilst 15.5 sounds like a downright scam, basic marketing.

[CoffeeCodeD]

This is the same technique used in gacha games, they obfuscate the currency to make you lose track of how much you're spending, you convert your money into ingame gems or stars or whatever

[turtlecat]

Extra reason: when you top up, you will inevitably add more than you will need to spend, at the end of the day when you plan to leave, you feel obliged to spend the remaining 'pearls' as they have no outside use.

[everythingwillbeokkkk]

This went from “Best music festival in the world” to “they make you use an imaginary currency so they can scam you” real fast 😂

[KarlRock]

It’s so they can keep all the unspent money at the end of the festival. And I guess so they can take a cut of the sales from every seller there.

[stephenboerner]

O for sure. The fact that each pearl is worth more than 1 euro is proof enough. They want you to think you're spending less and make it harder to track your real spending, hoping you'll glass over the top up sessions or w/e

[mtnbkr]

If it's not a real currency, it's not actually counterfeiting.

[Velihn]

i’m almost 99% sure one of the reasons they use pearls rather than dollars or euros etc is for the consumer to not realise how much they’re really spending. for example saying “this is 2 pearls” sounds better than saying “this is 4 euros”

edit: yes i know this is exactly what he is saying at the end. i just kinda commented it more for myself to wrap my head around it, he used a lot of big words 😅

[crikxouba]

Another reason would be that the vendors don't report half as much sales as they actually did. It's a perfect way for the organisers to control all the money and ensure they get a cut

[Hiarin]

Same as why in video games sometimes there's its own premium currency

[javihernandez]

It's the same in most festivals in Europe and even in smaller events like medieval fairs and such. At least those are more thematic (even if the pseudo-scam process is the same), but these Pearls are literally mobile-game currency irl

[ameysawant]

Man still it's all for the music, childhood dream for many❤️🙂

[tdrg_]

I think this is because people will confuse 1P for 1€ naturally. So when they see something that costs 5P they’ll imagine it’s about 5€ when in reality it’s about 9€ (almost double)

[Mikeysham]

"Best music festival in the world" is highly debatable

[nikolasqkly]

Don’t forget that people can’t buy drugs with pearls

[EmirofDubai]

The main reason is that the employees cant steal money

[danielemagnaterra]

It's basically the same reason casinos use chips instead of actual dollar bills

[Manimal]

Its so they make more money, you just spend more. Also if you dont spend or use all your tomorrow land currency its free money for them. They already have your actual legal tender

[mikelchannel]

The same reason as starbucks with their app, if you put money, you can’t get it put.

It’s literally free money, and surely people won’t spend every penny of these “Pearls”. Instead of getting the money with merchandising and food throughout the festival you get all the liquidity in advance

[MerToronto]

Tomorrowland currency keeping you big as hell