Eternal Bond - Standard Plan and Gold Plan

[Roris]

Just a marriage system, and the only, the only thing those who pay obtain are... Vanity stuff?

Problem would be if SE decides to (I doubt it, I want to not think about it) cross the line with what they sell in the cash shop...

Extra retainers in the cash shop say hi, borderline P2Advantage/Convenience, P2Gamble if you consider ventures. No, it's not the same as buying additional character slots because you can't mail between them and you don't really get an extra playable character to level, yes people did use them as extra storage anyway and were practically forced to, but no, still not the same.

[RuruKun]

what kind of minion/mount are we getting? I'm bad...I don't read the live letters.
probably the two person chocobo? what would the minion be I wonder, a wind-up officiant? lmao!

[FruityTwotie]

Extra retainers in the cash shop say hi, borderline P2Advantage/Convenience, P2Gamble if you consider ventures. No, it's not the same as buying additional character slots because you can't mail between them and you don't really get an extra playable character to level, yes people did use them as extra storage anyway and were practically forced to, but no, still not the same.

If they didn't have retainers and you could buy additional character slots with the ability to main between would you buy additional characters for storage or extra retainer ventures?

[Roris]

If they didn't have retainers and you could buy additional character slots with the ability to main between would you buy additional characters for storage or extra retainer ventures?

If it was handled the exact same way FFXI handled it in its early days I'm sure a lot of people would do it or at least consider it. Personally I've never really bought any extras in any MMO ever, well aside from one TF2 key to get Gaben glasses, and that's my only regret. Nowadays FFXI has plenty of free storage space everywhere, so even they eased up on that and they did it entirely for free. Aside from the satchel attached to the authenticator which is really just a physical item with an in game bonus, just like extra minions from books and soundtracks and what not.

[Adrian74]

Extra retainers in the cash shop say hi, borderline P2Advantage/Convenience, P2Gamble if you consider ventures. No, it's not the same as buying additional character slots because you can't mail between them and you don't really get an extra playable character to level, yes people did use them as extra storage anyway and were practically forced to, but no, still not the same.

I wasn't speaking about retainers, but, there, dear lady, you're right.... I also didn't like the movement they did with the retainers since it was a really P2W movement in my opinion.... But right then a lot of protectors came saying "It was promised in 1.0" / "They have more costs of storage in server with this" etc... However, having extra retainers is a must, I can't just stay with two myself and I see it very difficult with all the quantity of items you usually need to store.

[Kinseykinz]

Extra retainers in the cash shop say hi, borderline P2Advantage/Convenience, P2Gamble if you consider ventures. No, it's not the same as buying additional character slots because you can't mail between them and you don't really get an extra playable character to level, yes people did use them as extra storage anyway and were practically forced to, but no, still not the same.

Not only this, but another thing I don't think everyone knows is:

For that extra 2 dollars a month a player can pay for each retainer, they get an additional retainer on ALL of their characters; across all worlds. So technically, people with lets say a 'Legacy' account potentially get far better value for their $2/month expense than people with Standard accounts (or is it called Entry when you have only 1 character?) But since a Legacy player can have up to 40 characters, and up to 8 one each world, that's a LOT of potential retainer access for one person to have...especially when you factor in that others paying the SAME price a month only have access to 1 additional retainer in so much as they only have access to 1 character.

I haven't purchased anything else for my account via MogStation, but I am assuming that things like minions/mounts work the same way. So for $24 dollars, I have potential access to 40 Odin mounts...my husband, 1.



Basically, not wanting to open this can of worms, but even my 'Legacy' account status could be considered a weird off-shoot of P2W when you factor in it basically makes it so my buying power is potentially larger than others.