Seven Eleven Japan Event - Exclusive items White Fat Chocobo and Maid/Butler Attires.

[Ovenmitts]

They "discuss" a lot of things, "promise" even more, and none of them actually happen. So... Yeah. I don't think we should calm down.

Care to elaborate? I'm genuinely curious even if I'm a sarcastic jerkface. All I can think of is the forums going up in arms about butt sliders.

[Isala]

Care to elaborate? I'm genuinely curious even if I'm a sarcastic jerkface. All I can think of is the forums going up in arms about butt sliders.

Well, the biggest one that I can think of is that the personal housing was going to be "Separate and cheaper" than FC housing. Instead, it was exactly like FC housing...
There's also the SMN glamours. They hyped them to the point of frenzied SMN, and only now are we hearing about them other than "Please look forward to it."
There's the promises to work on their system, to make it so we could actually have Addons and ways to alleviate the inventory issue, which became "Buy more retainers for real money."

And that's just off the top of my head.

[Ovenmitts]

Well, the biggest one that I can think of is that the personal housing was going to be "Separate and cheaper" than FC housing. Instead, it was exactly like FC housing...
There's also the SMN glamours. They hyped them to the point of frenzied SMN, and only now are we hearing about them other than "Please look forward to it."
There's the promises to work on their system, to make it so we could actually have Addons and ways to alleviate the inventory issue, which became "Buy more retainers for real money."

And that's just off the top of my head.

Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but most of those seem like quality of life changes that take time and resources to work on and have no impact on the game whatsoever. Housing isn't really that expensive or very hard at all to obtain the gil required to buy a house. Simply play the markets or sell popular items for a quick profit and wait for the inevitable Ishgardian housing.

You don't need summoner glamours to get by in the game just like you don't need Sleipnir or Minfillia's costume; they are creating content to add more customization. The fact that we get items in the mog station is giving the consumer the option to buy what they need and know their limits. I don't care about buying metallic dye or those Magitek mounts which is why I haven't bought them, however, I did buy the Odin horse because it's cool and I had extra funds to get it. I got a cool Cait Sith minion for being one of the nilla 2.0 preorders as a bonus, but you don't see other people freaking out about owning a timed exclusive like that. Except if I just opened a new can of worms. That would really suck. I don't go crazy about owning every single thing that's FFXIV related.

As far as inventory space goes, they actually responded to that today. I present a quote in a quote since I'm not hardcore enough to know how to link to official dev responses.

Q: My Armoury Chest and inventory are always full. Do you have plans to expand the amount of items we can hold?

A: We require more time for this, but we are looking into making it happen.

As far as this event is concerned, the JP players are getting a recolored Fat Chocobo, the same Chocobo collector's edition players and commendation achievers already have. They are getting a chance at getting MGP. They are getting a maid/butler outfit. This event is far more blown out over its importance than it needs to be, and impacts current players in no way.

[Isala]

As far as this event is concerned, the JP players are getting a recolored Fat Chocobo, the same Chocobo collector's edition players and commendation achievers already have. They are getting a chance at getting MGP. They are getting a maid/butler outfit. This event is far more blown out over its importance than it needs to be, and impacts current players in no way.

It sets a precedent. That it's okay to give one region special things. And that is not okay. Because FOR NOW, it's minor stuff like this... But then how much longer before it's more... And more?

[Ovenmitts]

It sets a precedent. That it's okay to give one region special things. And that is not okay. Because FOR NOW, it's minor stuff like this... But then how much longer before it's more... And more?

Since these are all glamour related items, and not items which help players pay to win, I think this game is doing a good job of catering to its community's interests. The Chinese got their region specific clothes along with their monster censorships. Now the Japanese will get these 711 items. The devs are looking for community feedback to see if players are interested in also having these items and if it's worth their time to port them over. Logic would dictate, since they mentioned on the live letter that they are discussing how to bring these items to Western markets, that they do care about bringing these items west.

Honestly this isn't even a discussion. They are trying to find ways to bring these items to players, and players are assuming they are getting the shaft on the first days of the announcement.

[Morningstar1337]

Honestly this isn't even a discussion. They are trying to find ways to bring these items to players, and players are assuming they are getting the shaft on the first days of the announcement.

I Just hope the devs see this paranoia as a sign that we, the western players, defintly are interested in these items

[Isala]

Honestly this isn't even a discussion. They are trying to find ways to bring these items to players, and players are assuming they are getting the shaft on the first days of the announcement.

This is a discussion, because this is the same path many an MMO has gone down, long before FFXIV, and we're ALL trying to say "Hold up! Don't be those guys!"

[Ovenmitts]

This is a discussion, because this is the same path many an MMO has gone down, long before FFXIV, and we're ALL trying to say "Hold up! Don't be those guys!"

They've gone, what 3 years now, without turning into other MMOs? I think they're doing fine. The paranoia is unwarranted.

I can't speak for everyone as these are my personal opinions, but I will quickly retract my approval if they add pay to win items in the cash shop. In my whole time of playing this game, I can confidently say I'm a happy customer and I don't intend on stopping my subscription over silly glamour items which haven't been unconfirmed to come to the west.

(As a side note, I'm not singling you out. I'm just interested in this lovely debate and I have no idea when I'll hit my post limit. :3 )