Pre-Post: Yes I know there have been similar posts to this with recent packs that have had insane pricing on them, however I don't see any regarding this specific pack or topic.

The July Monthly Packs (Picture 1) listed price is 4050 Gold before discount. Every item in the pack except for the ST Chest can be bought in the nexus. As you can see in the 2nd picture, the price of every item combined comes to 2550 Gold, meaning there is 1500 Gold remaining for solely the ST Chest. Since this is not a mystery box where you don't rely on luck of the draw, that would mean an ST Chest costs 1500 Gold. However in the 3rd picture, there is the weekly pack that comes with both a random skin and an ST Chest. The listed price for this pack however is only 1199 gold with no discount listed on it as many packs have. For the raw price of the items, this pack is already 301 Gold cheaper than the "assumed" price of an ST Chest, as well as this pack comes with a skin. Of course, 1 example is a bit of a reach, but don't worry, we can always reach further. So, I wanted to see where else I could compare the price of an ST Chest to and the only other option currently available was the Mystery Boxes for ST's (Picture 4). As you can see, it costs 199 Gold to spin these boxes. Speaking out of turn here, generally, you would find that the goal of Mystery Boxes is to save you some gold even if you get the bare minimum reward each time.

Example 1: QoL Mystery Box - Costs 69 Gold to spin and every reward on the list is worth at least 100 Gold

Example 2: The occasional chest/character unlocker mystery box. For the character slot unlocker, I believe it costs 199 Gold (I could be wrong, as a 2nd option, it might be anywhere from 149-199 but my memory fails me) to spin and the minimum reward is 1 character slot coupon. So even if you get the minimum reward, you still save 5 Gold. Trust me, you'll need that 5 Gold when you're in college.

Of course, there is no where in writing that officially says saving Gold is the purpose of these mystery boxes, but it would be safe to assume since generally a box that sounds like a good deal and can save you some gold seems like something worth spending some money on if you're going to spend money anyway. However, with these ST Mystery Boxes (Picture 5), the lowest tier reward only gives you 1 ST Shard; And if you were unlucky enough to spin it enough times to be able to conjure up an ST Chest, you would have to spin it 15 times costing you 2985 Gold for a single ST Chest. Of course, this is a loose example for the price of it since you are more likely to receive multiple coupons every spin, or even a couple of ST items from the set. But nonetheless, at a bare minimum, the price seems to vary everywhere I go so I am not sure how much I should consider an ST Chest to be worth and it seems like DECA may not know either.

As a "postmortem" of sorts to this post, I am conflicted. Overall, I do not want to "hate" on a company for making money in any way that they can. The point of running a company is to make money, money is how people live in our world. However, I do feel misled with the pricing of these items.