Loyalty System for cash shop

[Violyre]

What if there was an option at certain Vet Reward levels of "pick one item from the cash shop." Or an option to trade the vet reward for one of the cash shop items? I know there's a few vet rewards I would swap.

[Sinsain]

@ OP That's what Veteran Rewards are for, provided they still do them after the Cash Shop is implemented....

except everyone can obtain a veteran reward by playing for a set amount of time, this cash shop requires us to spend extra money on content, all im asking for is a loyalty token system, we save up enough tokens by logging in every day or a set amount a month and get to spend that on a cash shop item, seeing as we now have no choice on the matter of it getting implemented.
The forums are up in arms about the cash shop for a reason, this can calm it a little. not all the way but im sure this would be reasonable to both sides.

Again this is ONLY if the content is available through cash shop only, and not farmable ingame. Yoshi said vanity only but vanity is a HUGE part of this game, theres a reason alot of people are pissed.

You may not agree but this is a solution.

[ruskie]

I like this as a compromise. And it would certainly avoid a lot of backlash because it makes those items obtainable just by playing the game(something they should have been anyway).

[Mindylou]

I was just thinking of something like this.

Perhaps SE could put some unique currency in the game that could transfer to the cash shop?

I was thinking if they made it as a reward for activities that help other (and especially new) players, such as duty roulettes and FATES, it might be somewhat benefit SE as well by keeping players doing those contents and helping establish a reputation that ARR is not difficult to join as a new player because players still do most contents.

They could also put a cap on how much you could discount each item you purchase.

^^ This is the only compromise I can see SE considering. The entire point of the cash shop is to make.....cash Oo. If loyalty points = free items then that totally defeats the point of placing them in a cash shop.

SE is still here for $$ as their main goal...always will be.

But the idea of earned discounts is a lot more reasonable and imo the best idea yet

[Valcro]

Why not allow veterans a discount? The cut off has to be somewhere, so let's just say a year's worth of subs. Let your dedicated playerbase get discounts, if not have those items for free entirely, and cash in on everyone else who will spend a few months playing dress up with their glorified barbie doll before they move on to another game. This should be an obvious choice on what to do. *shrug* I don't think a few more dollars out of each person is worth the bad vibes.

[Vespar]

I still feel like people are going a bit overboard with this whole cash shop thing. Tons of games have cash shops and there's been less backlash on those companies than Ive seen here...
Just an observation mostly, personally I dont really care what happens with the cash shop so long as regular updates and quality content keep coming.

[Violyre]

I still feel like people are going a bit overboard with this whole cash shop thing. Tons of games have cash shops and there's been less backlash on those companies than Ive seen here...
Just an observation mostly, personally I dont really care what happens with the cash shop so long as regular updates and quality content keep coming.

Oh, they are going overboard, but don't tell them that. They get scary.

[Chiramu]

The cash shop is just bonus, vanity items. Why does it need a loyalty system? If anything every person subscribed to FFXIV should be on the loyalty system. If so many people were not capped on Fantasia potions SE might not have even thought about adding a cash shop.

People want to buy infinite Fantasia potions for some reason >.>.

[Sinsain]

were already paying a subscription fee a loyalty system is the perfect compromise for something we had no choice in having implemented in game. If they are asking us to pay extra money for great looking vanity items (on a game where a glamour system is implemented and vanity is a huge part, then we deserve this at least. AGAIN this is only if the items are unobtainable in game. The people mad about this cash shop are ALL people who grind their gear/achievements/mounts/currency in game to obtain these items. To have them given out for free in a non F2P game is an insult regardless of what you want to think about it. Gamers spend time earning these things. This new Gimmie gimmie era are ruining games and thats non-argueable. SE will make money off of them but to keep the dedicated players around a token system WILL work, it wont make us happy about the cash shop but it will at least keep a bunch of permanent players from unsubbing.

[Sinsain]

The cash shop is just bonus, vanity items. Why does it need a loyalty system? If anything every person subscribed to FFXIV should be on the loyalty system. If so many people were not capped on Fantasia potions SE might not have even thought about adding a cash shop.

People want to buy infinite Fantasia potions for some reason >.>.

if it was just fantasia this wouldnt be a problem