Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24185163-20131118234228/@comment-24145588-20140305184542

I wouldn't really call it a lie, just sloppy wording. You can acquire, hatch, place, activate, level, etc. your Wubbox for free; there is no "breeding" in this case. Likewise, with the one-elements, you do have to buy the first one, not "breed" it, but it is still free.

That message is probably a holdover from pre-Wubbox days, when there wasn't this exception case of a monster beiing "activated" instead of bred. Although since this complaint has come up a few times, BBB might want to think about rephrasing it.

As for allowing a chance to breed it, let's say they did. The Wubbox would probably be harder to breed than the single-element Ethereals, and therefore take longer. Would you prefer to save your coins for a week or so to buy it, or spend weeks or months in repeated attempts at random breeding? I know that if the option were there to buy the Ethereals for 50 million or so gold, I would've preferred that option, and had my Grumpyre weeks sooner.

Buying a Wubbox is (in my estimation) a lot faster, easier, and cheaper than breeding one would be. Of course, if you really prefer the repetition and randomness, you have a point, because buying it is a sure thing.