Concerned about most recent 'Optional Items' update.

[Black91CRX]

It would be no problem for me if the devs bring the "You missed the event? You missed the gear." rule back.

I find it strange that people would rather past event items be gone for good than be available for money.

[kyuven]

I find it strange that people would rather past event items be gone for good than be available for money.

This bothers me too. Exclusivity really annoys me. Give a bonus to people who adopt early, but don't remove the ability to get it entirely for those who adopt later.
If someone wants to spend money on a hat, let them.
The cash shop isn't going anywhere no matter how much you moan about it. Learn to live with it, or quit. I know that's been said a lot, but that doesn't make it less true. If the cash shop is hurting your enjoyment of the game, then quit. Don't play a game that isn't fun.

[Roris]

Telling people to quit will only make them quit, which will lead to even less subscribers, which will lead to even more cash shop items.

[kyuven]

Telling people to quit will only make them quit, which will lead to even less subscribers, which will lead to even more cash shop items.

If they stop whining about the cash shop so incessantly then i call that a victory. It's not like it's a massive swath of people, it's a very vocal minority.

[DefendPopPunk]

This entire forum is a vocal minority

[Roris]

Yeah, victory by supporting my favorite game by making it lose even more subscribers and more money. Oh wait.

[Jynx]

Since there is already a year to wait for an event, why not expand on the idea of certain events, making them bigger over the year.

Because that would just make sense to slowly expand events and make them give a giant variaty of seasonal items. There isn't any money in that! Development is so expensive these days guys were lucky they didn't go bankrupt yet, the subscriptions are hardly enough to keep the hamsters running the servers alive.

[StrejdaTom]

Id rather see past seasonal items in cash shop (that anyone could get if they were playing) than new seasonal items or new items (thanks for no such stuff in golden saucer). So really np for me, I missed 2 seasonal events and if I will like the stuff.. I will buy it.

[ArkNova]

I'd rather see past seasonal event items being sold by npcs for 10gil. I took a break buring the Halloween and Christmas events in 1.0 when they were doing pumpkin heads and reindeer suits and then last year they were selling the pumpkin heads and reindeer suits for 10gil and got them then. So why do we have two extremes here? One side is for get it now or never have it again and the other side is for, sell it in the cash shop so I could buy it now. When it should be sell all past event items from an npc for 10 gil.

[Nominous]

So why do we have two extremes here?

Because there's a few people who think that this is unacceptable business practice. They believe it absolutely, irrevocably changes the dynamic of the game, and is too 'risky' to let it go on unchecked, or unquestioned.

Then, there's a lot of people who literally couldn't care less about near-arbitrary vanity items that actually don't change any important facet of gameplay. Said people, likely understanding that this is natural video game agenda now. That's not to say these people should be (or are) satisfied with the status quo, just... it isn't changing any time soon, so you might as well enjoy the games you enjoy, taking the good with the bad.