Can Cash Shop be a bit more reasonable

[cammi]

- points to the other thread where people are bitxhing about hair being locked behind content like people here who want a dress others had to pay for locked behind content.- There's no pleasing people on either side. They should've just told people NO and leave the dress there.

[Chessala]

By the amount of Y'shtola outfits and Chinese dresses I see, plenty of people buy it so the prices won't go down anytime soon.

I really wanted her outfit, but after seeing lalas and Roes and basically every second person run around in it....I don't feel like blending with the masses.

In most games, the fluff will always be the most expensive. Why? Because you don't need it to progress in the game. Fluff is the perfect way to make money because you will be milking the ones that do not mind spending the extra while not hindering the ones that want to progress in-game. I quite like that even if there are some things I would like to buy but simply can't afford at the moment.

If they start selling gear or upgrade items in the shop while still charging a sub, that's the time when I will stop playing for sure.

[Zojha]

There's no pleasing people on either side.

So you say, but do you truly think putting the hairstyle into the saucer at the same price of the other hairstyles would have caused any noteworthy ruckus?

[Culfinrandir]

If someone came up to me & said "I'll buy your shirt off you, I love it so much, I'm throwing money at you, name your price, I'll pay it!", do you think I'd say "Sure, it's only worth $1"? Hell no, I'd think to myself that the idiot wants it so much & doesn't care about the value of money that they will have to pay $100.

That is **EXACTLY** how players reacted to certain content when they saw it & SE reacted exactly as I would - cough up, fools. Sorry 'bout it, you brought it on yourselves.

[cammi]

So you say, but do you truly think putting the hairstyle into the saucer at the same price of the other hairstyles would have caused any noteworthy ruckus?

No but here 's the thing.. people still would've complained. Why? Cause the other hairs wasn't in the GC. They were just given. So yes people would complain. Cause now you're making them do GC instead of just giving it to them like the other hairs were. My point still stands, there's no right answer cause no matter what they do people WILL complain. Which is why the dress should've just stayed there. But that's just me.

[SokiYagami]

In most games, the fluff will always be the most expensive. Why? Because you don't need it to progress in the game. Fluff is the perfect way to make money because you will be milking the ones that do not mind spending the extra while not hindering the ones that want to progress in-game.

Not going to comment on whether the price is right or not, but on this argument instead. Please, people need to stop this. It's a weak argument at best and just downright self-center and/or selfish at worst. Just because you don't care about the glamour content as much as those who are supportive of this thread doesn't make it any less important than -insert- content are to you.

A valid argument is something like SE is a business, and business are out to earn money. Whether they are treating the customer right is another question. Seriously, just stop it with the "cosmetic content doesn't affect progress/give an advantage, so it doesn't matter" argument.

[Naunet]

No but here 's the thing.. people still would've complained. Why? Cause the other hairs wasn't in the GC. They were just given. So yes people would complain. Cause now you're making them do GC instead of just giving it to them like the other hairs were. My point still stands, there's no right answer cause no matter what they do people WILL complain. Which is why the dress should've just stayed there. But that's just me.

This is a silly thing to say. They already have a system in place for delivering new hairstyles: adding them to character creation/the aesthetician. I HIGHLY doubt people would have complained about that. I also doubt people would complain much if costumes were added to the Gold Saucer... there are already costumes there, so it makes sense.

[SessionZero]

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Yet most of the games you listed don't even have half the playerbase of games like WoW and FFXIV. Why? Back when TESO was sub based it was an utterly unplayable garbage mess. Now it's at least playable, but still boring. Blade and Soul and BDO are garbage KMMO grindfests. TERA is a patch simulator. WildStar is In-Game Advertisements... In Space!

Six in one hand, half a dozen in the other. Either you sub for a good gaming experience + optional cash shop, or you don't sub for what basically amounts to a polished up browser game.

[Naunet]

WildStar is In-Game Advertisements... In Space!

Kind of off-topic but I'm trying to figure out what you mean by this and failing. As far as f2p games go, WS has the best model of the bunch to be honest. With how you earn Omnibits from playing, you rarely have to actually spend money in the cash shop for a costume or whatever that you might want - and they're all account-wide unlike in this game.

That and I've never seen an in-game advertisement in WildStar outside of the Welcome Window when you first log in...

[SessionZero]

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I may be mis-remembering because it's been awhile since I played WS but I remember the F2P version being clunky and intrusive. Either way, my point was that free to play does not entertainment make. I don't have to pay anything to watch paint dry either but that doesn't make it quality entertainment.