Emotes in the cash shop..

[Felis]

But old content previously available for "free" but now added as micro- transactions? That seems way too different and irksome to me

You can only buy the rewards of old contents (Yukata 2014), not the old contents itself (summer event 2014 wih all the mini games)

[Naunet]

Why does everyone keep calling it content? It doesn't progress your character at all.

Vanity is content. People care about vanity. If it wasn't content, I suppose you'd be perfectly content playing the game wearing some grey cubes?

Once again: In the previous year, we got new events with new rewards AND old rewards.

[AlereRaeder]

I don't see the problem here.
These sort of event rewards aren't even exclusives. Speak out because it's an emote? It's the last of your worries, and shouldn't even be a concern because you feel a type of higher right to have something someone can't feasibly get anytime soon

I'd speak out if the shit they were selling were Legacy Character Tattoos!

[Heskett]

I find it funny how when the cash shop was added most people were totally fine with it. I was in the minority that was against the cash shop completely.
But everyone else was like, "It's more money for SE to put into the game... It's not Pay to Win.... I'm fine with it if its strictly vanity items..."

So I decided w/e, it's there and not going anywhere, but just wait for when they add things more people want like emotes or hairstyles or new face options, then people will be pissed.
And low and behold it has happened and NOW people dislike the cash shop.

One emote that was previously available in a past seasonal event goes into the cash shop and suddenly you were right all along? Fucking please. If it was something new entirely then you'd have some merit but get real.

[Lewtskie]

So I decided w/e, it's there and not going anywhere, but just wait for when they add things more people want like emotes or hairstyles or new face options, then people will be pissed.
And low and behold it has happened and NOW people dislike the cash shop.

Or it's all the people who still hate it and the people who don't/didn't care are going about their business? I don't see why it wouldn't just still be more of the same crowd coming to reinforce the hate over people jumping the fence. And really, if it was a silly emote that broke your resolve, then you weren't really for it/didn't care about it at all anyway, just thinly veiled your hate with some sense of being cool or something stupid like that.

[Akselier]

What the hell? The emote costs only 1.15 and you're already complaining? That emote came from an event from last year. It's a totally optional item that, along with the rest of the items that are sold in the cash shop, does not affect your gameplay in any way. You don't have to buy it if you don't want to.

[Kikoten]

Stop right there. This is the very reason our forums are a laughing stock.

I thought our forums were a laughingstock because everybody here is suddenly a business expert in the video game industry when Square Enix makes a move they disagree with.

[Jynx]

does not affect your gameplay in any way.

How is that exactly anyways I hear it alot. Glamor and Vanity are part of the game as much as raiding is.

That's like selling coil clears on the cash shop and if I was soley focused on crafting/gathering it has no "Effect on my gameplay experience" If I am a player who finds things like glamors and vanity to be a big part of my gameplay experience because I enjoy making the perfect character (I'm not personally but hey, this game should be fair for everyone) having event items locked away behind a pay wall would drive me insane. Christ I'd rather them make the items totoally exclusive to the events and not re-release them if they refuse to sell them on a vendor every year, because then there is a REAL sense of exclusivity and not make me feel like people are looking at me with my full valentinions set wondering how much cash I shelled out for it.

Making certain items rare and elusive is a really cool thing I enjoyed in many games I've played. Christ in Ultima Online I specialized in special exclusive and glitched items that had a huge market due to just being hard to get your hands on. I ran a gallery for the stuff it was pretty cool.

The obvious best choice for players is that they re-release these items on vendors as they did previously there is no player centric reason we should support the removal of this content from the game to be placed behind a paywall.

[Lyaha]

Stop right there. This is the very reason our forums are a laughing stock.


That's the issue. Everyone wanted vanity look pretty. This is why stuff like this has gone way out of control.

Nothing you just said made any sense..

Our forum is a laughing stock because people step up and voice their concerns? Anyone who's laughing about that is a moron, you shouldn't pay attention to those people.

[Ayanno]

As I said in a similar topic earlier:

I will never cease being amazed at how many people gleefully defend being nickeled and dimed on top of paying a subscription fee.