Cash shop confirmed

[Evangela]

I don't see any issue with it.

as long as they don't sell items that make characters stronger like those cheap F2P games.

phantasia, mounts, and minions have no effect to gameplay at all.

[SirEdeonX]

phantasia, mounts, and minions have no effect to gameplay at all.

Mounts and Minions would require either new content, new sidequests or new recipes to earn them.
Even if the new minions were just added as part of rewards for maps, that'd keep people doing it.
For those players that only log on tuesdays to raid - yeah, a cash shop is all good because it doesn't affect them.
But there are other types of players - and they're not few NOR lesser players for it.

That's the gripe I have.
We subscribers have payed them to make content. They in return want us to pay to access a % of that content.
Look at it this way - you give me 10$ to buy groceries and cook you a meal.
With your 10$, I make a wonderful dish that you can eat, but if you want the delicious dessert I made (still with the ingredients bought with your money) you have to pay more.
You'd probably punch me in the face and eat the dessert lol

The sad thing is we can't do a thing - we're impotent because SE always wins.
People will keep playing because it doesn't affect them, and some people will buy the new stuff and they'll make profit which will drive them to make more exclusive cashshop content.
We're being robbed of new content and we can't do a thing except express our sadness.

[Eye_Gore]

we're impotent because SE always wins.

Umm yeah speak for yourself. Need some Yak Loin, good to keep the yang up.

On that note, micro transactions, its what games do today, can never have enough money.

[Teirshin]

You should all boycott this, but instead you'll all pay in and encourage them to move more content to individual charges.

A few will, but most will cave to peer pressure, plus this is the generation that isnt used to going without, and they rather sell their souls than be the only one that doesnt have <insert shiny new trivial thing with no real value>. People today have no idea what it means to sacrifice, hence why credit card debt is at an all time high.

I don't see any issue with it.

as long as they don't sell items that make characters stronger like those cheap F2P games.

phantasia, mounts, and minions have no effect to gameplay at all.

Thing is, SE will start with only "cosmetic" things to get people used to the idea of buying stuff.... then they'll start slipping in other things that do affect gameplay once they see just how much money they can make by doing so.

The start of this is just to get the door opened to future things.... and dont you think for one second they wont sell anything they can to make a buck.