Eternal Bond - Standard Plan and Gold Plan

I'm definitely uncomfortable with how many things are getting added to the 'cash shop'. I remember in FFXI... I think you only had to pay an ingame gil fee for a wedding, and your ceremony was watched over by an actual staff member of SE who 'ran' it. I remember that it was an actual person because I referred to that person as an NPC in /say, and they literally slapped me and said, "I AM NOT AN NPC." Best wedding ever. My friends never let me live that down. But yeah, there was no cash shop for extra goodies. I really just don't like that. I'm already paying a subscription fee and I will outright refuse to pay for those added things (exception being services like a name change, server change, whatever). I won't stop playing the game over this, though. I'm really disappointed more than anything else. I do hope those of you who are willing to pay this enjoy it, though. I mean that sincerely.

Cash shop tyyyyyy that's the way i saw happ and i have no prob using real cash at all

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Originally Posted by reptiliane

It isn't because you have a disease called compulsive purchase that it's a good thing.

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Pfft, try better next time. The lockout/loot system at DCUO basically requires players to buy Replay badges to reset the lockouts on raid content. Huge loot tables (try twice the size of the ones here) meant you had to run things dozens and dozens and dozens of times to fully gear up in the top armor. If you didn't reset, you'd be lucky (very lucky) to finish gearing before the next DLC in 4 months. If I were compulsive I would have everything in the cash shop... go check my character, I have none of it.

Anyways, this doesn't matter. We are going to enjoy the system, and if you don't like it go take a long walk off a short pier.

I disapprove of this standard/gold split.

I'll never get this mentality of buying things to spite others, even though the people who don't buy blatant cash grabs isn't because they're poor but because they do have money and are just smarter shoppers. I also don't get the mentality of "well others do it too and others do it worse so it's okay when my favorite company does it" but to each their own I guess.

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Originally Posted by Animarelic

I'm taking the Realist approach by saying;
I feel like SE is doing this to make sure people take the Bonding-system seriously and not force those who really want it to wait while hundreds of other players do it "just for a mount". Also like Raiding, I do believe they should create other outlets for people who just want the mount. I think that would solve the problem.

It seems like all SE-White Knights trust in everything SE does and all the Chicken Littles scream "The sky is falling" every time they put something in the cash shop.

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Except the "standard" system is already free so people can take it as "not seriously" as they want. This is gating content behind a paywall, pure and simple.

I am amazed by how people are content that they are getting fcked as consumers. I guess the saying "a fool and his money are soon parted" rings extremly true here. I'll just leave this here:

http://0.media.dorkly.cvcdn.com/41/5...1e714dc90c.jpg

15 pages of hot air. "Remove the subscription fee or remove the cash shop" lolk. In 5 years you will still be subbed to this game. You will still be complaining about the cash shop, and Eorzea will still be turning.

Enjoy! to those participating in Eternal Bond, standard or gold.

[QUOTE=Numenor1379;2611049]Pfft, try better next time. The lockout/loot system at DCUO basically requires players to buy Replay badges to reset the lockouts on raid content. Huge loot tables (try twice the size of the ones here) meant you had to run things dozens and dozens and dozens of times to fully gear up in the top armor. If you didn't reset, you'd be lucky (very lucky) to finish gearing before the next DLC in 4 months.

I played DCUO for a long time doing early kills of the content when it was actually hard and i never used a single $ on reset tokens. If you had to rely on getting the gear the week it came out you probably were bad and that game is a terrible comparison because it's a total pay to win game. And that game started like this one, they kept addaing stuff like power changes and loot reset tokens and ruined it.
Is that what you want for this game??

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Originally Posted by Rose-Wild

I played DCUO for a long time doing early kills of the content when it was actually hard and i never used a single $ on reset tokens. If you had to rely on getting the gear the week it came out you probably were bad and that game is a terrible comparison because it's a total pay to win game. And that game started like this one, they kept addaing stuff like power changes and loot reset tokens and ruined it.
Is that what you want for this game??

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Like I said, compulsive purchase... but some people are dead blinds.

Where did they talk about the Eternal Bond paywalls?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...eview?sle=true

I found the google document of the translation and the Eternal Bond section does not say anything about pay walls...