Cash shop things

[Amused]

and you accuse me of not understanding development?

You clearly don't if you think it would take any substantial amount of time or effort to make an item out of something that already exists in a complete form within the game.

[Jynx]

and that means that the mount model is available in game for player use? Oh right, it doesn't.

I can also only see the massive ammount of work it took to do that could only be justified by the cash shop right?

[Amused]

I'm a on a development team

Cool, my dad works for Final Fantasy too.

[Shougun]

and you accuse me of not understanding development?

I'm going to go on a limb and say that I do understand how development works seeing that I'm a on a development team. I'm not seeing this doing any damage to their fans or their reputation at this point.

All the work for the model was complete and implemented in game already, except for making the mount available to players. Even without being on the dev team I think you'd really be hard pressed to say there was any difficulty getting it into the game for players (icons are really fast to make, from what I've seen at least). Hardest part was probably setting up the cash shop page to sell the thing lol.

SE has the right to sell whatever they want*, but Odin mount (imo) should have been in game subscription based content because it was /already/ in game.

*and consumers to stop paying when they feel like it is no longer a value purchase.

[Amused]

Except that it doesn't exist in a useable form in the game. It exists as 3D model for that mob/fate. Is it a shorter time as some of the model work is done? Yes. Does that mean that porting that 3D model into a player useable mount is easy?

It was literally already compatible with ALL THE RACES.

Assigning a model to an item takes an incredibly miniscule amount of time.

[Alistaire]

You have absolutely no idea just how wrong and delusional you are.

Does S-E pay you to defend their greedy and immoral business practices here or do you do it for free?

Oh my dear god the entitlement. IMMORAL? Putting things in a cash shop is IMMORAL?!? This thread is flat out looney.

[Amused]

I'm sure he does. Show me where I said I did.

I didn't say you did.

I was poking fun at your statement "I'm a on a development team" because it says nothing to me, and for all I know you could just be lying. I'm not saying that you are lying, because you could very well be telling the truth. It's just that throwing that out there like that in no way gave you more credibility than you had beforehand. Based on what you've said so far I'm still convinced that you have no idea what you're talking about.

Oh my dear god the entitlement. IMMORAL? Putting things in a cash shop is IMMORAL?!? This thread is flat out looney.

It most certainly is immoral when we're already paying them for the game itself, and each month following to continue developing the game.

[Amused]

[Mogi]

You are wayyyyyyyyy over blowing the cash shop right now at least wait till they add a pet that gives a player more HP or a Buff of some sort. As for games having DLC welcome to the new world of making more cash love it hate it that's how it is

[Amused]

You are wayyyyyyyyy over blowing the cash shop right now at least wait till they add a pet that gives a player more HP or a Buff of some sort.

I care about HP and Buffs about as much as you care about vanity.