Vana'diel Festa in Japan, 10th anniversary special event "Random Deal"

[Lucy7]

What do you think about this event?
(sorry, but JP only. please translate yourself)

http://www.playonline.com/ff11/event/vanafest2012/
http://www.playonline.com/ff11/event/vanafest2012/detail.html?id=item

[Bloodytears]

it says like this ,
6Metal Tags will be on sale at Fest in japan (500yen ,about 6~7$)
with RANDOM register code of in game items.

Those items are MW, RW, EW, VW shining equipments,etc.

"sorry" for my poor english.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

So a little RMT math: Let's see, last I heard it was $30 a mil. So that would be $3 per 100k. 6 plates for 500yen is $6.28. That would be a $1.04 per plate, which would them be sold for a minimum for 100k. Which would be $1.94 profit. Are they planning on limiting the distribution? How much is a plane ticket from China to Japan?

[Dathus]

Anyone going to Vana'Fest and wants to make a couple bucks?

[Byrth]

I think it is lame that SE is selling some of the hardest to obtain items, and I think it's pretty dumb of them that they are selling so cheaply. Maybe more details will come out as far as probability, but it looks like someone could buy almost anything they want (and a considerable number of incidental other things) for about $100. I know SE's budget has been tight, but selling what little integrity they have left for a few thousand dollars seems weak even for them.

[Alhanelem]

Um yeah, let's sell some random super weapons/items to one portion of our playerbase for the price of lunch and not give other people a similar opportunity. At least sell a few of the things on the goddanged SE online store or something.

Or better yet, don't do it at all, because that's a really lame way to give out relics. Do they really need to sell a couple dog tags that badly?

[Sparthos]

lol what a slap in the face to the NA and EU base.

Seriously, selling the rarest items in the game for 6 bucks while bullshitting us about items needing to be rare for balance? Hahahahaha.

Please tell me this has a Tanaka-style trap involved and really the code is for a 'chance' at getting a rare item when you key it in at the moogle. You have a 5% chance of getting the item and a 95% chance of getting logs, ore or rock salt.

Let the games begin!~

[Phafi]

It would be nice if Camate and Bayohne returned from vanafest with a bunch of these to give away at an event. =\

[Fusionx]

It would be nice if Camate and Bayohne returned from vanafest with a bunch of these to give away at an event. =\

Would be even better if they had an NA event where everyone that went got the chance to get these instead of a handful of people via some twitter/forum contest.

This kind of stuff is why I've been saying we need an NA event people.
(And no the concert doesn't count)

[Sargent]

This kind of stuff is why I've been saying we need an NA event people.
(And no the concert doesn't count)

inb4 they decide to add the same vending machine at the NA concert and the 25th Anniversary concert. Would be unbalanced otherwise.