New Mogstation Items (Magitek mount recolours inc.)

[Yasuhiro]

I thought my GPU was a tad expensive, but I bought it regardless due to being able to afford it, I think TVs are unnecessary expensive, and yet they sell in the millions and I'm one who purchases them, I think food can be a tad expensive too at times, and yet I still buy it. Have you never thought something was more expensive than it should be but bought it? Unlikely, but who knows. Regardless, I'm not saying it's "Outrageously expensive" just more expensive than it should be.

A TV and GPU is little different to something that already exists in the game's assets but uhh....keep trying to justify why there's nothing wrong with what they're putting up on the cash shop, assets that again already exist in the game $12 for Red and White, thank you Square Enix!

[BreathlessTao]

Link.

On that note - when are we actually gonna get to the point where we collectively do something that says "STOP RIGHT THERE!" to these blatantly banal cash shop additions?

Fantasia - why not? /shrug
Server transfer - why not? /shrug
Name change - why not? /shrug
Eternal Bond extras - why not? /shrug
Renting retainers - why not? /shrug
"Optional/glamour only" - why not? /shrug
Dyes that are consumable - why not? /shrug
Past event rewards - why not? /shrug
Exclusive NPC outfits - why not? /shrug
Exclusive NPC outfits that aren't even dyeable - why not? /shrug
NPC outfits that can easily be done with generic gear pieces - why not? /shrug
Minions - why not? /shrug
Exclusive minions - why not? /shrug
Exclusive mounts - why not? /shrug
Exclusive mounts that are only recolors - why not? /shrug
Pointlessly overpriced items - why not? /shrug

Does nobody else feel the problem here?...

[Dualblade]

That all said, while my other posts here have been about how the only way to stop this from happening would be to convince everyone not to buy them...I MIGHT buy the Red one. I just need a cape for Seki and I'll be golden for her...

[Azper]

Ugh. I kinda sorta really want the white one... but $12 seems a bit expensive for a reskin. It'd be nice if they added an in-game alternative as well as the cash shop method so people had choices in obtaining them.

[Colorful]

A TV and GPU is little different to something that already exists in the game's assets but uhh....keep trying to justify why there's nothing wrong with what they're putting up on the cash shop. When the dev team announces that they're taking another holiday then I can rest easy knowing where my money from the cashshop is going.

I'm not saying there's nothing wrong with it, I don't like it either. But here are my options, buy it from the cash shop or never have it. $12 is a rather small price in the grand scheme of things (yeah I'm attempting to justify my spending on it), but it's not like there's another option. Besides, I haven't decided if I'll actually buy it yet.

[Jynx]

How far has that convinced SE to change it's way with it? Not at all.

I wouldn't be suprised if them releasing the cash shop only dyes wasn't due to hillariously sluggish sales after the initial hype-train and whales spending all they own on them the metalic dyes were not very common. now they are atainable in-game, if they were selling them hand-over fist I doubt this would be the case.


Just because SE doesn't come out and say "Jeese guys sorry we were bleeding your wallets" doesn't mean the people who aren't purchasing this content don't have an effect. the "Majority" may not be as much of a "Majority" as you think it is. I mean how many Slepnir mounts are there actually compared to the size of the playerbase? Not really alot I would imagine, also these purchased items have had consumer blowback as well with mounts like Slepnir being called out for not flying, or having special emotes requiring them to go back and put work into them to justify the purchase to the consumer.

It doesn't take alot of people to shell out to make the reskins profitable for SE, but there are farther reaching implications to these things in the long run and consumer apathy doesn't just happen overnight it builds and it can snowball before they realize it. The issues continue to mount and there will be a boiling point if they don't get their ducks in a row.

-Inventory issues
-Glamor restrictions due to cash shop
-Server instabillity
-Delayed patches

Now before anyone jumps on me I'm not on the developers about this I know the pool fools have no choice usually but their marketing arm needs to back down they are siphoning too much consumer good-will especially for a company that is just coming out of a spat of shaky reputation with their game releases.

[Calypsx]

Why not just let us unlock it in game? There's so many different kinds of content this could of been a reward for... Maybe even have one drop from Praetorium and the other from Castrum Meridianum?

[Velthice]

I bought both and don't and won't feel any shame in it. I like the cash shop. These are pretty cheap for mounts (WoW prices theirs at $25), and I'm glad they're going in that direction rather than up in price from Slephnir's $24.

[Ultimatecalibur]

Hmmmm...

"white devil"

interesting...

Looks like 3 out of the 4 Magitech Armors are Gundam references.

[Theodric]

It's a shame that they didn't add them as rare drops to be obtained in Castrum Meridianum/The Praetorium. I'm a big fan of all things Garlean though so I'll likely buy them to add to my mount collection.