Cash shop confirmed

[Delmontyb]

We vote with our dollars, if we as a community don't buy the content, the policies will change. But we as the community have to decided this. If we go out and buy all this stuff, they will keep making it, supply and demand.

I for one won't be buying anything from the cash shop, that's just something I don't do... But I don't have an issue if someone wants to use it. I'll leave it up to the community to decide of they want this kind of system.

Everyone always votes with their dollars.

[Negotiator]

snip.Everyone always votes with their dollars.

That's very true.
When SE asked us legacy members for support to help keep things running and rebuild the game, we did. They were humble about it and we pitched in to play a horrible game, but eventually we got 2.0 as part of the deal. They are the ones that calculated their budgets all out to achieve that goal.
What's this cash shop for? Did they ask for help this time?
You guys don't have to say "well I want that minion so OK, I guess. Here's my money."
Ya a company has every right to want more money, customers have every right to ask them why do you want to take more than I'm already giving? If the answer is "Yoshi wants a new skateboard or the YEN rate has been dropping",fair enough. Is it a good answer? That's up to you. As a consumer, you can ask.

Simple question. Would you rather the items be obtainable from within the game or do you want to pay more on top of your subscription fee?

[LittleArrow]

That's very true.
When SE asked us legacy members for support to help keep things running and rebuild the game, we did. They were humble about it and we pitched in to play a horrible game, but eventually we got 2.0 as part of the deal. They are the ones that calculated their budgets all out to achieve that goal.
What's this cash shop for? Did they ask for help this time?
You guys don't have to say "well I want that minion so OK, I guess. Here's my money."
Ya a company has every right to want more money, customers have every right to ask them why do you want to take more than I'm already giving? If the answer is "Yoshi wants a new skateboard or the YEN rate has been dropping",fair enough. Is it a good answer? That's up to you. As a consumer, you can ask.

Simple question. Would you rather the items be obtainable from within the game or do you want to pay more on top of your subscription fee?

I really think this sums up a lot of the feelings I've been having. Not to step into the debate of whether or not the cash shop is right or wrong as a whole, but there is a difference between paying for legacy / collector's edition to support a failing game and trying to sell more items out of the game that are already there.

This just doesn't feel like how we've been treated so far. Yoshi's humble attitude towards the players is what saved this game. Not entirely the content. That attitude is seemingly starting to turn. It's not full blown exec a-hole attitude, but this is a definite shift. If it wasn't, people wouldn't react to it

If you disagree with this kind of attitude, please continue to express yourself. If you agree with it, you should express yourselves as well. We're a community, not two opposing forces. I've created a petition for previous free content to stay free instead of being added to the cash shop (link is in my signature). Yoshi and the team have listened to us before (they cut housing prices at the end of the time limit for expensive servers, they also allowed legacy members the opportunity to recreate their characters before launch - I personally made the English petition for this). Either way, I think we should approach this in a constructive manner together ^^