Not another Cash Shop Thread: Seasonal Gear

[Nantheo]

Aye. While the dyes and crap are a legit complaint, it's THIS that rustles my jimmies.

[Felis]

just buy the santa suit for 10k gil each piece in the MB.

Is there a difference between the tradeable santa suit and the cash shop santa suit?

[BreathlessTao]

just buy the santa suit for 10k gil each piece in the MB.

Is there a difference between the tradeable santa suit and the cash shop santa suit?

Knowing SE I wouldn't be surprised if the cash shop version was made dyeable.
Or, y'know, just glow.

[Bishop81]

Disappointing.

Player requests asked over a year ago ... nothing.

Gil seller spam running rampant.

Bots operating in plain sight.

More and more cash shop crap in a sub game.

Man, this is just depressing.

[Janhyua]

Why can't they be fucking creative with their cash shop? Is making new glamour so hard to put in to cash shop? Instead of slapping old conent in to cash shop? Gezzz now back to the topic.... No don't buy it.... It's not worth the money

[chrillix]

And that's why they have a cash shop. Do yourself and all of us a favour and don't buy it.

EXACTLY. The OP is the exact reason the cash shop got the reindeer suit in the first place!!!!!!! Do you think they would keep adding items like that if no one bought them?! Don't start a thread complaining about the cash shop when you are one of the people buying ridiculous items from it.

[LineageRazor]

One thing that was kind of annoying in FFXI is the way that holiday activities lingered from year to year, building up until each holiday season was a dizzying clutter of different events. While it could be argued that having more activities to do is a GOOD thing, if you've participated in previous years' events most of the stuff doesn't matter to you, and if you're a newer player the amount of stuff to do can be confusing and overwhelming.

Take a look at this Starlight Festival guide from 2013. Can you guess which items on this page are newly added last year? Trick question! They're all old items! At least I think... I get lost trying to figure out which furnishings I have or don't have, what items are consumables, and so on - I might have missed some new holiday cake furnishing or whatever.

Putting old items in the cash shop keeps things tidy. One new quest event per year with item rewards, and previous years' rewards available in the cash shop for folks that are actually interested in stocking up on the old holiday items. Admittedly, this tidiness doesn't HAVE to be handled via cash shop. An in-game holiday vendor works fine, as well. As long as they don't fall into the trap of holiday event overload, though, either way is fine with me.

[Shneibel]

You know, it's a bit better than "no second chances" like it was for many items in FFXI.

this is not 2nd chance, this is the 3rd chance. The first time was in 1.0, 2nd chance was last Christmas event, now is the 3rd chance.