I want an official response.

[Oghmanyte]

Posting to confirm that I like minions and mounts and costumes but feel no requirement whatsoever to buy any of these things from the cash shop.

[Da_Hero]

Subscription is only for access to their game server to play their game. Read the ToS, stop the "subscription = entitlement" mentality.

how about you stop the "omg, game is infallible mentality"

[Craiger]

Whether you hate this or not, please stop using "optional" for everything in the game...

Of course everything is optional, but you should know what people mean. As of now, except for the wedding clothes (don't wanna wear that anyway), I have the exact same options for vanity as someone who buys everything in the cash shop... And while I can understand that some people want the dyes, I don't think I would use those dyes even if I had them. There are no vanity gear in the cash shop, and nobody have really cared for the minions and mounts in cash shop so far.

I actually feel just as gated from the metallic dyes we have right now, cause I'm very unlucky and can't seem to get them...

If you are one of the few that really must have the dyes, and don't see them as optional, then just buy them... Have to see the prices and stuff, but if it's not expensive, then you should not see it as a waste of money like many others...

Also, just because you really want something badly, doesn't make it any less optional... I love golf, and want new clubs very badly every time there is a new good one, that doesn't mean I have no option to not get them...

[UltimateAoe2]

Whether you hate this or not, please stop using "optional" for everything in the game...


Also, just because you really want something badly, doesn't make it any less optional... I love golf, and want new clubs very badly every time there is a new good one, that doesn't mean I have no option to not get them...

I love how you used the example from golf, cause that's exactly how I feel ;-:. Can't get those new clubs I want!

But yea...if you want stuff from the cash shop buy it. If not, leave it alone. I mean. It just takes your decision whether to buy it or not.

.-.

[silentwindfr]

You do have numbers supporting your claim, do you?
Actually cashshop usually a very popular across the wide casual crowd and that usually don't care about "collecting every single minion" or being gated by paywall for fluffy items. WoW makes around 1/4 of its revenue on such items that clearly shows that they are popular and in demand.

no they are not popular, i did post on another thread an interesting subject about the % of people buying stuff in the Free 2 play model, showing that only 2-3% of the whole playerbase really purchase stuff. but still this model survive, even if it's the biggest scam of the time. since the name it's a lie, the game is never free.

even if on the 2.000.000 subs, only 20.000 people buy sleipnir, they will still earn a lot of cash... since it's about 480.000USD, and it's only for 1% of the player base... it cost them almost nothing and bring them a loooot of cash... then if this 20.000 people continue to buy every month new content added to the cash shop, it's more and more free cash earned... and it's still 1% of the player base.
the point is, we can complain all we want, even with 20.000 people buying the cash shop is only benefit.

and about the fact that the pro cash shop did become more vocal, it's more about the fact that a lot of the pro cash shop that was heard since the start of the eternal bonding stuff have very very very low count of post on the forum. they rarely go over 100 post some have even less than 50 post count, meaning this people that are fast to answer are only there for defend the cash shop.

indeed the count don't make them thought about the situation less important, but it's strange to see a loot of pro cash shop appear suddenly. *shrugs*

[Da_Hero]

Whether you hate this or not, please stop using "optional" for everything in the game...


I actually feel just as gated from the metallic dyes we have right now, cause I'm very unlucky and can't seem to get them

If you are one of the few that really must have the dyes, and don't see them as optional, then just buy them... Have to see the prices and stuff, but if it's not expensive, then you should not see it as a waste of money like many others...

Also, just because you really want something badly, doesn't make it any less optional... I love golf, and want new clubs very badly every time there is a new good one, that doesn't mean I have no option to not get them...

your golf club analogy is so wrong...clubs would make more sense compared to say a computer or ps4, as in you own them...the subscription to the game would be more like the monthly dues to your country club...unless of course you own your own golf course, which to that I say bravo

[Ashgarth]

Those are all OPTIONAL items right?

Because we have so many dyes, clothes and minion in the game available to us, these are completely OPTIONAL!!!

Well, at this moment i'm just waiting for the moment they say "A Itemlvl X set has been added to the OPTIONAL item shop, since there's an equivalent ingame this one is completely OPTIONAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL.

Then we'll see the ppl who only care about battle content start complaining and remember, that would not be pay to win because, since there would be equivalent or maybe even better sets ingame, it would be completely OPTIONAL!!!!!!!

PD; Seems I have to update my signature.

[tocsin]

these threads have just become worse and worse to read every day.

Seriously. Read the darn ToS. read everything the staff has said. minions are vanity items. They have been classified as vanity by Yoshi P. and vanity has been classed as cash shop fodder.

you already have your official response, stop wasting the Community members time trying to get them to repeat themselves, and let them worry about things that actually matter, like game breaking bugs.

secondly

Items added to maps this patch: 1

Cash shop exclusive items added this patch(excluding eternal bond items and past seasonal items):

4

let me correct this:

Items added this patch: 109

Cash shop exclusive items added this patch(excluding eternal bond items and past seasonal items):

4

pretty good percentage

[Teuciont]

Continue to lay back and take SE's ever erecting love for micro transactions. Continue to accept anything and everything they decide to spend time creating and slapping a real money price tag. Remember goys, you're "helping pay for the servers." Why bother spending the thirty days you subscribed for doing quests and content to unlock minions, mounts, and enhanced versions of in game events when you can simply throw money at Japanese businessmen?

[Taliph]

snip

You "correct" my post by making an apples to oranges comparison?

Map rewards are the items most like what they added to the cash shop as "exclusives"

My point still stands that these items could have been better used to revitalize stale content like that one map item supposedly is intended to do.