Eastern Cherry Trees

[Dimitrii]

I said, 'Even if.' I have no doubt they'd be higher, but $15 seems far too much for a housing item. A full set of gear on the mog station goes for about that much. I could see the trees going for $5 realistically.

Considering they used to charge 25 bucks for the sleipnir mount I actually think 15 bucks would be too cheap for them.

[Thalvaus]

Doubtful that they'll add them in-game again, considering their monetary value. It would piss people who paid 20,000,000 gil per to have the trees. Square is cautious to even make a single change to the glamour system (they said that people still make 2,000 or so gil off of each individual 1-5 ranks and don't want to ruin that for them), so something so expensive would be almost out of the question.

That said, a bind-on-acquire version of such via the Mog Station may be viable. Perhaps even a raid drop in the future to provide a small influx to the market board. Both seem plausible to me.

[Dimitrii]

Doubtful that they'll add them in-game again, considering their monetary value. It would piss people who paid 20,000,000 gil per to have the trees.

I doubt they care about that. Otherwise they wouldn't have slashed house prices like they did. The medium house I bought for 38 mil you can get for 8 mil on some servers. Let's not even go into the people that bought mansions before the price nerf...

[AnimaAnimus]

It would piss people who paid 20,000,000 gil per to have the trees.

If you paid 20m for a single tree that's your own fault, and also I have like 6 trees for you if you wanna waste that much gil on a tree.

If I were a dev I would put them back into the game for like 3 kupo nuts or put them on mog station for like 2.99 just because of that. Then just sit back and watch.

[Nezerius]

If you paid 20m for a single tree that's your own fault, and also I have like 6 trees for you if you wanna waste that much gil on a tree.

As much as I disagree with his reason to not re-implement the trees, he did say trees, not that someone paid 20m for single tree. Going by Balmung pricing, that's be 1m short of 6 trees.

As for how they should re-implement the trees, they should just bring them back during each Little Ladies Day event, as that's when they initially were obtained.

[Dustytome]

As much as I disagree with his reason to not re-implement the trees, he did say trees, not that someone paid 20m for single tree. Going by Balmung pricing, that's be 1m short of 6 trees.

As for how they should re-implement the trees, they should just bring them back during each Little Ladies Day event, as that's when they initially were obtained.

He did say per. On Sargatanas 20m would get you two trees at current pricing.

[Lexia]

It would piss people who paid 20,000,000 gil per to have the trees.

Well too bad for them, obviously they thought the trees were worth that otherwise they would not have bought it and they could waited for possible future way to obtain. So there really no reason for them to be pissy.

[Sakuraluna]

They don't want people buying/selling the cash shop items in game and that's going to be a mess with two different items (if they change the cash shop version id/bind it) that are the same.

Pretty sure they've done this before though with the usagi kabuto and the dream outfit from the first Christmas event if I remember correctly. Editing the cash shop version so that it can't be sold or traded while leaving the original version as is seems to be how they address that issue. If they added the trees I'd assume they'd do the same there.

[Dustytome]

Pretty sure they've done this before though with the usagi kabuto and the dream outfit from the first Christmas event if I remember correctly. Editing the cash shop version so that it can't be sold or traded while leaving the original version as is seems to be how they address that issue. If they added the trees I'd assume they'd do the same there.

They have before, but it's been quite awhile since they've had items like that. At this point the current glamour gear is all bound. I'm curious what all the people vying for it to go onto the cash shop would deem too expensive, because I can't see it anywhere near the $1-3 people seem to be suggesting. They know the trees are popular and housing is limited, so sales are going to be limited. That leaves them with gouging the price to get the most out of those limited sales.

[Sakuraluna]

They have before, but it's been quite awhile since they've had items like that. At this point the current glamour gear is all bound. I'm curious what all the people vying for it to go onto the cash shop would deem too expensive, because I can't see it anywhere near the $1-3 people seem to be suggesting. They know the trees are popular and housing is limited, so sales are going to be limited. That leaves them with gouging the price to get the most out of those limited sales.

Based on their history of selling old event items on a cheaper price scale than original cash shop only items, and the current pricing of housing items, and taking into consideration the popularity of these trees (because you know they're going to cash in where they can) I'd say the price would more likely be around $8 to $12 usd, probably on the higher end. I could be wrong, but it's what I'd expect anyways.

I'm not necessarily advocating that they put it on the cash shop as much as accepting that it's the most likely place it'll go, given the way they've handled event items in the past. If they do surprise us and add the trees back into the game I'd be thrilled, but putting them on the cash shop would serve to make them more widely available while not totally crashing the market, and at the same time it would put a real world (gameplay/time-based) value on the trees as being less than what they're selling for on many servers as most players could more easily spend $12 than farm up 10m+ Gil on a single tree, which could benefit SE pretty well considering what future housing wards and options might look like as well as players having the option to use multiple trees per yard.

Of course, putting the trees back in game for the duration of the event would have the same effect of bringing the mb prices down to a more reasonable amount too though. I'd honestly prefer if they did that. I just don't see it as likely to happen.