What do you want done with Guild Marks? Your feedback to developers!

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Originally Posted by Fiosha_Maureiba

It will be possible for new players to obtain guild marks.

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I fully expect that if they re-open the guild mark store on new principles, issuance of guild marks by leves and guild tasks will resume.

I vote for Grand Company seals. At the current moment Grand Company seals are a hassle to earn once all GC quests/missions are complete and seems like a very fair exchange for something that people worked towards earning only to have taken away later and considering other options such as Gil which may be something these people would not have worked towards earning (either already being rich and not needing Gil or preferring non trade-able items such as the items you would purchase via Guild Marks).

So in my personal opinion it's better to exchange Guild Marks for GC seals however there is one issue which is the Grand Company seal cap of 30,000 (the current cap for the highest rank of a Grand Company as far as patch 1.20). Not sure how many Guild Marks most people have but I know a quite a few people (including myself) has well over 30,000 with myself having 60,000 alone just for THM.

While I would prefer to trade every Guild Mark I have at once for GC seals at a 1:1 ratio and basically forfeit everything past 30,000 (as opposed to obtaining Gil) I think it would be best to allow the player to pick which class and how many marks they want to trade (in the same form you would sell items). This way a player can trade in up to 30,000 Guild Marks (obtaining 30,000 GC seals), spend the GC seals, and have room left for more to trade in more Guild Marks for more GC seals so nothing goes to waste.

As this is my personal opinion, I'm sure others oppose this idea and would prefer Gil to GC seals seeing as how many people are not interested in items obtained through GC seals and would prefer Gil since currency can buy anything and everything trade-able. Well, in a perfect world where everyone gets their way (excluding people who think the hard work of others should go unrewarded simply because it gives them an advantage over those being lazy and/or not being present at the time to do such work) then SE would allow an exchange NPC to appear (perhaps until 2.0 is launched) where players can choose between GC seals, Gil (hopefully at a much higher ratio than 1:1), or something else SE deems worthy of being exchangeable for (such as Ifrit Totems or Moogle Nuts at a 1:1,000 ratio?).

The above proposition may be to much work for the programmers of the game to bother with for a game undergoing such drastic changes that this may too too much time (I'm not too sure about this stuff, I'm not a programmer) but it would seem like having 2 NPCs would make this much easier. 1 NPC would allow the player to pick the Guild Marks of which class they are trading in for a universal token (for example you would trade 1,000 Gladiator Guild Marks for 1,000 Guild Tokens) that way programmers wouldn't have to write code to allow players to select an item from their inventory and choosing the amount then thrown into picking which item they want to exchange for and picking that amount. Then the 2nd NPC would have the items available for trade using the universal Guild Tokens.

Edit: Or the programmers can just turn all Guild Marks into Guild Tokens instead if there is no reason to distinguish which class the Guild Marks belong to which would be even easier.

I would be upset after farming about 700k marks(expecting ability or maybe job-specific gear later) to have them traded for 20k seals. I'm not impressed by GC gear or items that much.

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Originally Posted by OmegaNovaios

I vote for Grand Company seals. At the current moment Grand Company seals are a hassle to earn once all GC quests/missions are complete and seems like a very fair exchange for something that people worked towards earning only to have taken away later and considering other options such as Gil which may be something these people would not have worked towards earning (either already being rich and not needing Gil or preferring non trade-able items such as the items you would purchase via Guild Marks).

So in my personal opinion it's better to exchange Guild Marks for GC seals however there is one issue which is the Grand Company seal cap of 30,000 (the current cap for the highest rank of a Grand Company as far as patch 1.20). Not sure how many Guild Marks most people have but I know a quite a few people (including myself) has well over 30,000 with myself having 60,000 alone just for THM.

While I would prefer to trade every Guild Mark I have at once for GC seals at a 1:1 ratio and basically forfeit everything past 30,000 (as opposed to obtaining Gil) I think it would be best to allow the player to pick which class and how many marks they want to trade (in the same form you would sell items). This way a player can trade in up to 30,000 Guild Marks (obtaining 30,000 GC seals), spend the GC seals, and have room left for more to trade in more Guild Marks for more GC seals so nothing goes to waste.

As this is my personal opinion, I'm sure others oppose this idea and would prefer Gil to GC seals seeing as how many people are not interested in items obtained through GC seals and would prefer Gil since currency can buy anything and everything trade-able. Well, in a perfect world where everyone gets their way (excluding people who think the hard work of others should go unrewarded simply because it gives them an advantage over those being lazy and/or not being present at the time to do such work) then SE would allow an exchange NPC to appear (perhaps until 2.0 is launched) where players can choose between GC seals, Gil (hopefully at a much higher ratio than 1:1), or something else SE deems worthy of being exchangeable for (such as Ifrit Totems or Moogle Nuts at a 1:1,000 ratio?).

The above proposition may be to much work for the programmers of the game to bother with for a game undergoing such drastic changes that this may too too much time (I'm not too sure about this stuff, I'm not a programmer) but it would seem like having 2 NPCs would make this much easier. 1 NPC would allow the player to pick the Guild Marks of which class they are trading in for a universal token (for example you would trade 1,000 Gladiator Guild Marks for 1,000 Guild Tokens) that way programmers wouldn't have to write code to allow players to select an item from their inventory and choosing the amount then thrown into picking which item they want to exchange for and picking that amount. Then the 2nd NPC would have the items available for trade using the universal Guild Tokens.

Edit: Or the programmers can just turn all Guild Marks into Guild Tokens instead if there is no reason to distinguish which class the Guild Marks belong to which would be even easier.

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I would be ok with this except i have so many marks what would i exchange them for from GC? 50 jade crooks? i have 260k marks on arm alone. another 190k on blacksmith, in total over 2 mill. I'd rather not have to spend those in 4k increments for the next 8 months turning GC crap into materia or whatever.

I don't know if anime was put on the table, but I would be more than happy to trade guild marks for anime.

I thought of an idea for people who would like there to be more content in the game. I say we keep guild marks and make them available kind of like the way they were except them only being job specific. Maybe make us purchase certain weapon skills or magic. Or giving us the option to add effects to current weapon skills ex., instead of Demolish just dispelling, when used in a combo it dispels and causes a temporary loss of accuracy, or dispel and the next action preformed by the target will miss. Can give Fire Spikes as a guild mark reward for black mage through thurmaturge guild marks and so on. I think this would create quite a bit of content and give the community more reason to log on and "do stuff".

not sure if they would give you anime that would be kinda weird. maybe they could give us anima instead.

Howdy!

Just wanted to let you know ahead of time that in patch 1.21 it will be possible to exchange guild marks for items such as different varieties of materia, shards, crystals, and clusters. We will be listing the exchange rates in the patch notes, so please check them out.

As a side note, we will not be making new methods in which to obtain guild marks as we will be eliminating them from the game in 2.0.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Howdy!

Just wanted to let you know ahead of time that in patch 1.21 it will be possible to exchange guild marks for items such as different varieties of materia, shards, crystals, and clusters. We will be listing the exchange rates in the patch notes, so please check them out.

As a side note, we will not be making new methods in which to obtain guild marks as we will be eliminating them from the game in 2.0.

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That's a good compromise.

Thanks ^^

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Originally Posted by Camate

Howdy!

Just wanted to let you know ahead of time that in patch 1.21 it will be possible to exchange guild marks for items such as different varieties of materia, shards, crystals, and clusters. We will be listing the exchange rates in the patch notes, so please check them out.

As a side note, we will not be making new methods in which to obtain guild marks as we will be eliminating them from the game in 2.0.

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Thanks Camate, for this info I will not go on a snurble killing spree to celebrate getting my jobs :D

Hope there are some decent items as well.

Camate post things that make me happy. Good to hear this :D

Good news, guess we will have a lot more people getting that 5 meld achivement now :P

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Originally Posted by Camate

Howdy!

Just wanted to let you know ahead of time that in patch 1.21 it will be possible to exchange guild marks for items such as different varieties of materia, shards, crystals, and clusters. We will be listing the exchange rates in the patch notes, so please check them out.

As a side note, we will not be making new methods in which to obtain guild marks as we will be eliminating them from the game in 2.0.

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And what about the Guild mark we spend on skills? We will get them back?

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Originally Posted by Signy

And what about the Guild mark we spend on skills? We will get them back?

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You already can, just talk to the guild person.

Wow really?, gonna try it later.

What kind of materia? There are various levels for each tier...

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Originally Posted by Camate

Howdy!

Just wanted to let you know ahead of time that in patch 1.21 it will be possible to exchange guild marks for items such as different varieties of materia, shards, crystals, and clusters. We will be listing the exchange rates in the patch notes, so please check them out.

As a side note, we will not be making new methods in which to obtain guild marks as we will be eliminating them from the game in 2.0.

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Bad Decision

Bad Design

Severe lack of Creativity

they should use them for getting JSE but you get from other means than leves

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Originally Posted by Kiote

Bad Decision

Bad Design

Severe lack of Creativity

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Bad reasoning

Bad post

Severe lack of insight

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Originally Posted by Kiote

Bad Decision

Bad Design

Severe lack of Creativity

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they are getting rid of an old system . They could have just taken guild marks of you inventory
Instead you get the option to trade for something. There is nothing to design....

Why clusters?

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Originally Posted by Meatdawg

What kind of materia? There are various levels for each tier...

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Didn't they say they were thinking of consolidating them ?

I duno if it was rumour or confirmed.

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Originally Posted by Jinko

Didn't they say they were thinking of consolidating them ?

I duno if it was rumor or confirmed.

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True, but I doubt they fit that in. (would be nice)

I just know the market wards are going to blow up even more with all this extra materia on them. I would try to sell your "rare" matera asap~

Would have loved seals, but this works and is pretty balanced.

I think its fair. Looking forward to seeing if its all tiers of Materia and maybe new materia if released.

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Originally Posted by Kiote

Bad Decision

Bad Design

Severe lack of Creativity

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This x 1000

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Originally Posted by Holy_Dragoon

Would have loved seals, but this works and is pretty balanced.

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Eh. I don't know about that. Will have to wait until we hear more about just how many crystals/what materia we get from the exchange. Honestly I'm a bit surprised they didn't go for seals, but whatever. Better than nothing I suppose.

The materia is going to be meh, can pretty much guarantee that now. Unfortunately I am already overflowing with shards and crystals. Clusters are worthless so I'm not even sure why they are offering them to us... Oh well. Maybe I will hold on to my marks in case they decide to offer something in exchange actually worth exchanging for.

No mentioning of seals for the exchange either. Looks like the Seal grinding isn't going to get any easier. It's not like they need to hide it or anything, the guild marks aren't even obtainable anymore .. Why be so secretive about it. Everyone obviously will want seals for the marks. IMO, depending on if they were crafting guild marks .. they are just as hard to come by as actually obtaining seals. Who wants to get items we can already get with gil. Give us something that can't be bought, just like the marks couldn't be bought .. let SEALS be in the exchange rate.

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Originally Posted by Wynn

The materia is going to be meh, can pretty much guarantee that now. Unfortunately I am already overflowing with shards and crystals. Clusters are worthless so I'm not even sure why they are offering them to us... Oh well. Maybe I will hold on to my marks in case they decide to offer something in exchange actually worth exchanging for.

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We dont know the materia will be crappy stuff. Think about it, once you use all your marks, they are gone...forever. I'm sure they will give us some nice stuff to exchange...especially since we're the only ones that will ever be able to use them.

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Originally Posted by Teknoman

We dont know the materia will be crappy stuff. Think about it, once you use all your marks, they are gone...forever. I'm sure they will give us some nice stuff to exchange...especially since we're the only ones that will ever be able to use them.

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You're right. We don't know for certain. But I'm still going to go out on a limb here and say they will be pretty marginal materia at best. Most of use have hundreds of thousands of guild marks. SE knows this.

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Originally Posted by Kiote

Bad Decision

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Severe lack of Creativity

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http://i.qkme.me/4sjx.jpg

Special 1.xx exclusive materia would be something awesome to show off, especially if its useful :)

I wonder if the guildmarks will all be considered one pool for purchasing purposes or if they will only allow you to buy, for example, harvester materia with guildmarks obtained from the harvesting classes.

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Originally Posted by Delsus

Special 1.xx exclusive materia would be something awesome to show off, especially if its useful :)

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One can only hope they'd be that thoughtful.

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Originally Posted by Vackashken

One can only hope they'd be that thoughtful.

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Until someone creates a thread whining about how they accidentally unmelded their rare materia and want it back. :P

I want to get shards, crystals and clusters with them now that fine sand is a PITA to make.

lol yay a use! For fun I added how many I have up:

1,091,094

I wonder how much the stuff costs, any way I can probably buy a few <,<;;

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Originally Posted by Wynn

You're right. We don't know for certain. But I'm still going to go out on a limb here and say they will be pretty marginal materia at best. Most of use have hundreds of thousands of guild marks. SE knows this.

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Yup I just added mine up roughly I got over 300k of GM's and I never really farmed them tbh.

Materia will need to be 10k each otherwise the market will be flooded with them

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Originally Posted by Kiote

Bad Decision

Bad Design

Severe lack of Creativity

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Indeed, what a massive load of bollocks. They have no imagination whatsoever. So bascialy was a complete waste of time getting those guild marks for the first year of playing. They couldnt think of anither way to use them. Yep just take the easy mode and give us shards. thanks /facepalm