Emotes in the cash shop..

[sirDarts]

I told you guys. You laughed at me and now here we are. Soon there will be a currency you can only obtain with real life money and you'll need this to do anything remotely fun in the game. Mark my words and screenshot this post lol.

That's the point where we will riot.
As long as it is worthless glamour, emotes, mounts or minions, there is no problem in it.
Once it starts influencing gameplay, there is a problem.

Does anything in the cash shop actually influence gameplay?

[Blood-Aki]

That's the point where we will riot.
As long as it is worthless glamour, emotes, mounts or minions, there is no problem in it.
Once it starts influencing gameplay, there is a problem.

Does anything in the cash shop actually influence gameplay?

No, Even SE knows better then to do that, the only reason they can get away with it IS due to the fact everything in there is glamour, Most people are upset because this being a sub based game players asked to give more money for content that is already in the game, and it has worked out for them because people will toss money at anything. So long as they don't have to do any work for it. The age of Instant gratification.

Hell, PSO2 is a primary example of a game that is all about looks, and people are paying out the arse for the dumbest items.

[Moonleg]

As long as it is worthless glamour, emotes, mounts or minions, there is no problem in it.

In 3.1 there will be Lords of Verminion in the Gold Saucer, a minigame on par with Triple Triad and Chocobo Racing in scope in which you apparently fight with your minions. Speculation points towards a Final Fantasy Tactics setup rather than Pokemon.

However. Minions will actually have a USE. Does that qualify as influencing gameplay, or do you have your goal posts set on gear equal to or better than Alexander Savage gear?

[Rinuko]

Oh.. one of these threads..

[Synestra]

ingame vendor

I actually checked salvage vendor yesterday and holy shit there was alot of stuff for sale, i guess you can by all event stuff from there if you have done them before. Good to know so i can finally toss out those that still doesnt go to armoire.

[AriaEnia]

Need SE to make more emotes and put them in the game.

See which one of us gets more to do in the game, Aria?

That will do, but I'm up for options, even if it's on Mogstations.

[KihraJhin]

I think Ill just add my opinion here too, not that it matters much.

simple example, consisting of two month. Event A is in month 1, no event is in month 2.

Player A is subbed for both months, paying the monthly fee. He completes Event A in month 1 and gains an emote.
Player B isnt subbed for month 1, comes back for month 2 and resubs, paying the fee for month 2.

Now player B wants the emote, that Player A has, too and complains that he has to pay money on the cash shop to get it. But he doesnt realize, that Player A actually paid for the emote by paying the monthly fee for the month on which the emote was awarded for an event. He then comes to these forums and complains that he gets offered a chance to even get the emote, because most games are like "you werent here, then you dont get it".

Sure player A paid for the sub in month 1 and got all the month to play the game for that, but it is also very possible that player A did pay for the sub in that month but didnt even get time to play except for the event. And similar to this there are many many more possible scenarios like that. So saying he paid to play the gae and not to get the emote isnt entirely correct here. The emote doesnt even cost one month of sub, but I havent really checked the price on that.

So instead of complaining, be glad you even get the chance to get it. If you had subbed that month and played the game, you would have the emote now, so you couldve subbed for that single month OR you can just "sub" in retrospect for that month by paying in the cash shop.

[sirDarts]

In 3.1 there will be Lords of Verminion in the Gold Saucer, a minigame on par with Triple Triad and Chocobo Racing in scope in which you apparently fight with your minions. Speculation points towards a Final Fantasy Tactics setup rather than Pokemon.

However. Minions will actually have a USE. Does that qualify as influencing gameplay, or do you have your goal posts set on gear equal to or better than Alexander Savage gear?

Maybe, will have to see how exactly the mini-game works. But considering how many minions you can acquire by just playing the game, it shouldn't influence the actual gameplay. Unless they have some sort of advantage, or super rare skills/attributes, it's basically the same as glamour - does the same, just looks different.

[Roegadyn_Bear]

I told you guys. You laughed at me and now here we are. Soon there will be a currency you can only obtain with real life money and you'll need this to do anything remotely fun in the game. Mark my words and screenshot this post lol.

[Naunet]

As long as it is worthless glamour, emotes, mounts or minions, there is no problem in it.

Only "worthless" to certain people. Many MMO players are motivated to participate in gameplay in large part by how they can get their character to look, or what items they can collect. I really wish people would stop treating cosmetic items as something no one cares about, or unnecessary. I will only take that perspective seriously if the person is willing to play the game with their character replaced by a plain, gray rectangle, fighting against other grey rectangles in a featureless room.

So instead of complaining, be glad you even get the chance to get it. If you had subbed that month and played the game, you would have the emote now, so you couldve subbed for that single month OR you can just "sub" in retrospect for that month by paying in the cash shop.

*sigh* I don't know how many times it has to be explained to you people. For two years, we had a system where both Player A and Player B could be happy. If you missed one event, next year the event would have not only new items but also the old items.

There is a "win" option for players. It is not what SE has chosen.