Cash shop confirmed

[Magis]

I still can't believe there are so many people who ok with saying "yeah I'll pay more money for the things I got for free before"
You just want to be ripped off and have no issue with it

We live in a society where people need to get the latest phone every year because a marketing team told them they needed it. Are you that surprised?

[IveraIvalice]

We live in a society where people need to get the latest phone every year because a marketing team told them they needed it. Are you that surprised?

Yes I am. People buy anew phone because a new one comes out with new features that the old one didn't have. More powerful, more memory more features. It's a new product.

This is not new. People are happily gonna pay them money for the same exact thing we had before for free and even the people that don't buy now have something that their subscription few doesn't get them. So they downgrade our subscription and still some have no problem with this just kuz other games have done this too.

Getting screwed is getting screwed, I don't care who does it, I'm not gonna happily take it from all angles because it's somehow the norm on other games

[16bitBounty]

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You're dealing with a group of gamers who are fanatical in their devotion to this development team. I expected people to rabidly back SE on their decision to water down the meaning of our Subscription cost. Doesn't mean I'll sit back and take it though. My sub is up in march. I'll play until I either get bored or it runs out whichever comes first. I refuse to pay to play and then double dip with a cash shop. F*ck that!

[Black91CRX]

Yes I am. People buy anew phone because a new one comes out with new features that the old one didn't have. More powerful, more memory more features. It's a new product.

It's still a bunch of crap you were led to believe you need. It amazes me how people will pay so much just to keep glued to social media. The world got sucker'd.

[IveraIvalice]

It's still a bunch of crap you were led to believe you need. It amazes me how people will pay so much just to keep glued to social media. The world got sucker'd.

Wether people were tempted into buying it or not it is a new product with new features that made it different and better then the previous one that they otherwise would not have any other way. No ones handing you a phone every year for free.

In this case we would normally get these items at no extra cost

This isn't even comparable. One is an entirely new product that has been upgraded and you would not have because it's a single purchase item.
These items in game were obtainable in game, included in our monthly subscription and nothing is changed about them.

The point of being tempted into buying either a phone or these items has nothing to do with this. This argument is based on facts. The simple fact that we had something before and now we have to pay more to get what we had access to before

[Black91CRX]

This argument is based on facts. The simple fact that we had something before and now we have to pay more to get what we had access to before

Access to what before? Event items? Offering a cash shop alternative to someone who missed a past event or is simply new to the game is great. Otherwise they'd never have a shot at it.

[IveraIvalice]

Access to what before? Event items? Offering a cash shop alternative to someone who missed a past event or is simply new to the game is great. Otherwise they'd never have a shot at it.

That's true for things that people missed out on that others had a chance to get in game already. But what about those things that will never be released in game and are only available on the cash shop. That's what we're talking about. For the entire duration of this games life when a minion or mount was being released we would know we could get it by playing the game. Now there will be things we can't get by playing the game and only obtainable by paying more money.

[Roris]

Access to what before? Event items? Offering a cash shop alternative to someone who missed a past event or is simply new to the game is great. Otherwise they'd never have a shot at it.

So instead of offering those past items for purchase from event NPCs during seasonal events like they had done so far, they're now offering them for real money. If that isn't greedy, I mean smart business, I don't know what is.

[Black91CRX]

So instead of offering those past items for purchase from event NPCs during seasonal events like they had done so far, they're now offering them for real money. If that isn't greedy, I mean smart business, I don't know what is.

Maybe i've looked in the wrong places but I haven't seen any of the older seasonal items for sale that I hadn't participated in myself. The event's items I missed aren't even listed.