Final Fantasy Vana'Diel Collection 3! (Now with Epic Items~)

[Misi]

Bummer. I will how ever pass it on to friends of mine who were considering reactivating and trying abyssea. At least they will get a nice item. Not paying an extra $20 for a hat, though.

[Chiibi]

Meh lots of players tossing their toys out the pushcart from the looks of this thread xD

[Patrik]

And one more thing i want to add, not to add fuel to the angry fire but... if you think you're entitled to this item because you payed for all the expansions and the monthly fee. You got what you payed for, $30 for all abyssea expansions, you got 3 battle add-ons, you did not buy some special hat. If you're saying you deserve it because you payed the full prices for everything and not the discounted price; you payed to get them soon, its just like all games, you can spend 50-60 dollars to get it right away, or wait and get it cheaper when its in less demand. Also, the monthly fee you pay, entitles you to play the game every month.

You're entitled to what you bought, there already IS an item we all get for having the 3 abyssea add-ons. The prishe statue, no its not some amazing armor piece, but it is pretty cool to a lot of people.

[Zyeriis]

Pathetic attempts to justify paying $20 for something we already have are pathetic. It is not our fault you are blinded by the shiny item and will cough up a ridiculous sum of money for it, while getting absolutely nothing else included because you already have it.

I'll repeat this one more time, so listen/read carefully: That item in no way will attract new players just because it isn't given to the current players. Let alone will those new players be able to fathom it's value...as they don't play the game. Adding the item exclusively to the box is SE attempting to get $20 from us for things we already have by throwing in a bullshit item for owning things we already own.

And yeah, if we don't want to spend the $20, we're not going to. That's the point?

I'm not going to argue with such naivety and stupidity any further than this. They are dangling a nice item on a fishing line, trying to hook an extra $20 out of the pond of cash that is FFXI to pay for FFXIV.

Again, fuck you SE.

[Randwolf]

Read my posts. I rarely side with the complainers. But, this time they have a very valid point. Add to that, that those who have been playing for a long time put up with a lot of crap that the developers finally fixed. Honestly, the $20 means nothing to me. It's the principle of the matter. Now, if S/E were to also give an item to just those who have been playing for 5+ years, I'm sure those who just started yesterday would complain. And, they would have far less reason to do so. But, hey, maybe during the Anniversary S/E is planning to do just that, reward long time players with an item that newer players can't obtain until they've played for several years.

[Chiibi]

I for one dont give a crap about the hat. Especially since its obviously made for players who dont have a ls already and have the "oh goddammit" task of getting to 30so they can play with the big boys and girls (even if it is leeching)

[bungiefan]

OK, so being an importer that started just after JP launch, If I've payed for all 9 years it will have been in May (it's actually been about 4 months less), and was paying the NA fee, I will have payed $1385.65 (counting the free first month) for only one charcter slot (I usually have 2-3), plus $65 for the game (~6800 yen in 2002), plus about $40 per disc expansion (four of them, remember conversion from Japanese prices), plus about $10 per add-on (six of them). So SE has gotten about $1670.65 from me.

Now my friend who wants to start the game on my server in May gets this item, and the entire game, and his first month, for $20, and I have to pay $20 more on top of my nearly $1700 for just the hat, as reward for my loyalty. How is this right? Isn't the low price of all 10 expansions the incentive for new players? Your past items from registration codes have been just furniture, or costume gear like the chocobo beret, and have been bundled with FanFest attendance or soundtrack CDs, or jewelry, which we could get use out of even without the in-game item. This is really useful, and is something we have no use for once the game dies, and many of us can't even use the redundant game registration code since we have all the expansions already.

Now you're just grabbing for our money.

[Chiibi]

...you want new players to spend as much as you did to play this game?

*Edit*
Which might i add was your own free will to do. nobody held a gun to your head.

[Krisan]

Pathetic attempts to justify paying $20 for something we already have are pathetic. It is not our fault you are blinded by the shiny item and will cough up a ridiculous sum of money for it, while getting absolutely nothing else included because you already have it.

There's nothing pathetic about this.
You're acting like a child here, and you're being incredibly ignorant on the subject.
Have you forgotten about this?: http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Tidal_Talisman

That item was amazing, and damned if many people were ever able to get the stupid thing. You had to buy a cheap piece of jewelry (which wasn't in fact cheap at all, it cost a pretty penny and wasn't reasonable to afford as I recall) to get the reward code for the item. What's even more a kick in the ass about that item, was that the reward code had a limited time in which it could be redeemed. If you didn't use your code immediately, you were screwed. If you wanted to buy the code off someone else for less than the insane price of the jewelry - you didn't have very long to do so.

This item is arguably better, costs a hell of a lot less to obtain, and is being released with a discounted version of the full game. That is an incredible deal. And yes, furthermore you don't have to buy it and you don't want to buy it, you've made that painfully clear already.. So don't, go rage someplace else if a video game item for a measly $20 is going to ruin your day so much as this.

[Unaisis]

Well at least those newb collectors will get that inventory -1 Statue of Prishe!! Vengeance is Sweet indeed~