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With all this talk about selling animations in mogstaion, it reminds me of another tale, lol.
Where do we draw the line where it becomes a F2P game with a mandatory subscription?
Sure, some people would pay it. But the current game design just doesn't have the same addictive gamble appeal as the big F2P money milking games do and a subscription on top would kill it. If SE went too far down that road, they'd simply cut the subscription and go all in on F2P milking because it would lure in more players than a monetized subscription game. But it would involve redesigning the game towards a different audience. It's not a good path to go down.
The difference being that when you buy an expansion you pay £30 or whatever it is. And you get a shed load of actual content and stuff with it..
As opposed to paying £30 and getting just a mount or some bs...
That's why noone cared about old school dlcs and microtransactions because you got a ton for your money. £20 got you 2 whole new stories in gta4 for example and all the associated stuff that came with..
£15 in the early assassins creed games got you entire extra chapters or a whole new story in some cases.. actual real content and good amounts of it..
Today. What does £20 get you on the mog station in terms of actual real content.or new gameplay.... a couple of emotes or a mount that should be included in the game anyway. Even if tied to achievement rewards or something. Give players something to do or work towards..especially when it's so common to hear players say there bored and there nothing to do because 99.999% of the games content is obsolete.
I agree. Adding things to Gold Saucer is cool. hang around long enough or grind out MGP long enough and you can afford anything there.
Adding even more cash shop customization is unfair. Frankly, I wasn't comfortable with them adding emotes at all, aside from the ones that came from previous events.
And I still bought Drink Tea anyway, grumbling the entire time.
While I do spend a lot of time anymore there AFK, or doing the occasional gold saucer attraction, if they are going to add things to it, they need to actually make your stay there more enjoyable.
I'd like to see more things added as rewards across content in general. Such as for achievements, healers could each use their own mount set like tanks, etc. Customization options such as animations, I would rather see added in a free update to the game.
Things is, it's common to hear players say there's nothing to do while there's plenty to do, just nothing that interests them. Content being obsolete is a viewpoint that will vary from player to player. Some folks need rewards to make it worth doing, others just enjoy playing for the fun of it.
Folks may hate it but I'd be willing to bet most players don't have most pvp achievements done. That there is something to do, yet many wont