Microtransactions are here to stay. And they are a good thing.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Since when is taking content, spliting it into parts, making one free and the other paid healthy of games or players?

Cash Shops are good when they are healthy (vanity only) not when they are made by ripping content appart and leaving stuff behind a paywall. Makes the "free" part of the experience feel uncomplete and unsatisfactory on top of all. Which is never a good marketing option is it?

From this point onward, has been already confirmed what we call when retainer services were up. SE is going to taka parts of content that could perfectly be "free" and ask for microtransactions for them. This is going to happen to all that "unnecesary", "optional", "vanity" content only which players have been waiting for months/years. The wedding experience should be one, should come with all the items related to it to be selected by players in-game and thats all. Having to pay for literally half the thing or getting a second tier, free, cheap and uncomplete experience just doesn`t feel right. Not when you are paying for it already.

If they want to have a cash shop, ok, sell services like fantasia, card changes and server transfers, thats perfect. They can also sell mounts, minions, haircuts, hats and even glamour armors as long as they are not related to any kind of lore inside the game, plot characters or ingame systems (for example, Slepnir which should be an ingame reward or the minions which should be sidequests rewards or event rewards). Cash shop needs their OWN items, made FOR the cash shop, not taken out from the core game and being thrown into it. This is all what is wrong with the actual microtransaction model SE is doing, is here to stay and is TERRIBLE for us.

[Spellbinder]

If they want to have a cash shop, ok, sell services like fantasia, card changes and server transfers, thats perfect. They can also sell mounts, minions, haircuts, hats and even glamour armors as long as they are not related to any kind of lore inside the game, plot characters or ingame systems (for example, Slepnir which should be an ingame reward or the minions which should be sidequests rewards or event rewards). Cash shop needs their OWN items, made FOR the cash shop, not taken out from the core game and being thrown into it. This is all what is wrong with the actual microtransaction model SE is doing, is here to stay and is TERRIBLE for us.

Okay, so cash shops are good when they're vanity. Call me crazy, but the optional dresses, tuxedos, and chocobo available via the gold and platinum plans sound like vanity to me. Is there a problem? I don't see how a few extra dress designs and color options for your wedding are "ripping content apart" and leaving it behind a paywall.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Okay, so cash shops are good when they're vanity. Call me crazy, but the optional dresses, tuxedos, and chocobo available via the gold and platinum plans sound like vanity to me. Is there a problem? I don't see how a few extra dress designs and color options for your wedding are "ripping content apart" and leaving it behind a paywall.

As i said, when they are taken out the game to be put behind a paywall is it bad.

The dresses options, tuxedos and chocobo are part of the Wedding System too, just like the ceremony and the quests. Nothing of this is optional, they are all part of a whole experience and they are being put behind a paywall. If they make a 3 headed flying dragon mount, perfect, put it in the cash shop. If they want to add Cloud`s fenrir as a mount, perfect to the cash shop. If they want to put a Buster Sword skin on the cash shop, more than welcome! all of those are examples of perfect and healthy cash shop items. Having "half" the wedding (isn`t part of a wedding to select the clothes and to leave in a nice elegant form of transport anyway?) behind a paywall isn`t right.

Is actually sad. SE isn`t even working on the cash shop, it just takes things that could be perfectly in game, that knows players want, and moves them behind the paywall. Instead of using all this years of FF games to make cool cash shop items. Thats another bad part of it all, even the cash shop feels lazy.