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

[Miiyo]

Let's do a consensus on this one SE. Take note of how many people are already have abyssea and are going to buy this simply for the item. If we will pay $20 for a hat (no one cares about the statue), feel free to make biggggg updates with a price tag of $200

[scaevola]

They are offering a quality product at a reasonable price. What they should have done is include the hat within the serial code of the new software, that way only new people get em. Then you all could whine about why you are unable to get it at all.

I am pretty ambivalent about the hat. I am sure others will feel differently; after all, if people paid $40 for the Tidal Talisman they'll pay $20 for this. I also understand its function as a carrot for new players, and it makes sense to me: it's not about attracting new players, but rather the maybe couple hundred thousand who bought the game at its initial launch all that time ago and quit in rightful disgust after a week. The hat is a pretty bold way of saying HEY WE LISTENED AND THE LEVELING GAME YOU HATED SO MUCH IS A JOKE NOW. The goal is to convince those people to give FFXI a shot, because every change we've seen in the past five years has been towards making this game what those people wanted out of an FF MMO to begin with.

I mostly just take issue with apparently satisfied customers crying about how unjust it is that a publicly-traded company doesn't act like they care enough.

[deces]

First off I agree with all of the above, But what I want to know is why dose the Final Fantasy Vana'Diel Collection 3 not support the PS3?!... after all this time, and them wanting to get new people to hop on the ship. I would of thought this would of been the first thing they would of done. They could at least do this for the ps2 users who ended up with a free brick after the last epic fail update. I know many people who left after that non resolved issue. I mean come on guys really??

[Olor]

Well as someone who just restarted a couple months ago AND bought all the Abyssea expansions, I feel totally stabbed in the face by this. I only have 3 jobs at 30 or higher - so this would be incredibly useful but I guess my business isn't wanted.

[Olor]

So I guess no one had fun with abyssea the last like, 9 months its been out? lol

No, I have gone to Abyssea exactly 1 time besides just zoning in for the stones quest... and I paid 30 bucks for the three expansions less than a month ago.

I also have most of my jobs under 30. I am feeling pretty annoyed right now.

[Randwolf]

No, I have gone to Abyssea exactly 1 time besides just zoning in for the stones quest... and I paid 30 bucks for the three expansions less than a month ago.

I also have most of my jobs under 30. I am feeling pretty annoyed right now.

I sympathize with you. But, I'm wondering if you are all in a small boat. I don't know how many new players are joining daily. I have a hard time imagining this item will get anyone to play who would not have bought the collection in the first place, hat or no hat. Personally, the real incentive to a new player would be the lower price of the collection. Then, perhaps the no loss of experience below 31. As far as the hat, I'm not sure a non-player would know how good it is compared to other equipment at that level. And, thus be a tipping point for buying the game.

[scaevola]

I don't know how many new players are joining daily. I have a hard time imagining this item will get anyone to play who would not have bought the collection in the first place, hat or no hat. Personally, the real incentive to a new player would be the lower price of the collection.

Leaving aside the fact that SE's been selling these annual collections at $20 for years now, sometimes I think people forget this is a 9-year-old game and that $20 (to say nothing of a monthly fee) is still a pretty stiff asking price for a PC game from 2002.

I suspect very few new players are joining, which actually I think pushes me into the "hats for everybody" column; a player like Olor who dropped $50 (all three abyssea expansions!) on a PC game almost a decade old that wasn't even a paradigm-shifting success in its heyday ought not miss out on this opportunity. Taking such a chance should be rewarded.

As far as the hat, I'm not sure a non-player would know how good it is compared to other equipment at that level. And, thus be a tipping point for buying the game.

As I mentioned, I think it is extremely unlikely the hat is directed at people who have never played FFXI before.

[Akujima]

...I don't see anything wrong with them getting more money out of this game.. It's a very old game now, and any profit they can turn out of it is a good thing. Just look at the state of FFXIV and it's not hard to see that they're in an ugly place right now financially. (That game is just sitting there like a black hole, costing them money and going nowhere fast.)

So you're happy with people jipping you out of your money?

And how is it our fault that they failed on FFXIV? But you seem to think it's okay for us pay for their mistakes, all the while we get trash dumped on FFXI and it's player base.

[Olor]

I suspect very few new players are joining, which actually I think pushes me into the "hats for everybody" column; a player like Olor who dropped $50 (all three abyssea expansions!) on a PC game almost a decade old that wasn't even a paradigm-shifting success in its heyday ought not miss out on this opportunity. Taking such a chance should be rewarded.

That's my thought too. I feel like I am being punished for wanting to play... which is whack.

[Seha]

I won't cry at night for not having a hat, but it's incredibly stupid that I'm not allowed to get it because I bought the same stuff before they offered the cookie to encourage people to do the same thing I've done already. It's just really upsetting, it doesn't make any sense.