Can Cash Shop be a bit more reasonable

[Jynx]

The local theater here will gladly allow you to go in just to buy concession items.

I was going to say this about that analogy but I didn't want to break the poor souls heart. Any movie theater would probably go out of their way to allow you to buy their quadrupled priced M&M's.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

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.

People would have. Regardless of what you do, someone will always complain about something. Personally, I like to relax and walk around in the gold saucer, but I absolutely refuse to do most of the content because it's just not fun to me. I like to collect music. I was royally pissed when I found out that to get quite a few songs, I had to grind out the saucer through GATEs and cactpots. It took me roughly 5 weeks to get enough gmp to buy all of the songs. Worse, I'd really like the Gamblers set, but I have to accept I'll never have it, because I hate the associated content.

[Naunet]

I was royally pissed when I found out that to get quite a few songs, I had to grind out the saucer through GATEs and cactpots. It took me roughly 5 weeks to get enough gmp to buy all of the songs. Worse, I'd really like the Gamblers set, but I have to accept I'll never have it, because I hate the associated content.

Find a friend and just do the Triple Triad challenges together. I was able to easily get the costume items I want from the GC doing that. I'm with you in that I'm not particularly fond of the other mini games, but at least my husband and I can have fun doing TT matches against each other and pretty quickly accrue the needed points.

That said, I much prefer items being obtained from content in-game than being asked to shell out extra money on top of a sub in order to get something.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Find a friend and just do the Triple Triad challenges together. I was able to easily get the costume items I want from the GC doing that. I'm with you in that I'm not particularly fond of the other mini games, but at least my husband and I can have fun doing TT matches against each other and pretty quickly accrue the needed points.

That said, I much prefer items being obtained from content in-game than being asked to shell out extra money on top of a sub in order to get something.

I hate TT. Pretty much the only cards I have are the one and two stars that drop from content and that is it. In order for me to actually win at triple triad, I'd have to beg them to use a deck of nothing but 1 star cards and pray that they'll let me cheese a victory. And still, it's the principle of the thing. Why should I grind content I don't like doing for stuff I want? The only content I 'sorta' enjoy are GATEs, but I can't farm them on end because I'm always running battle content.

Honest question, what do you think is worse? Grinding for gear you'll use for five minutes then throw on your retainer and forget about, or paying a pittance so you can have the item you want and still do the content you enjoy?

[Naunet]

Honest question, what do you think is worse? Grinding for gear you'll use for five minutes then throw on your retainer and forget about, or paying a pittance so you can have the item you want and still do the content you enjoy?

They're not asking us to pay a pittance. They're asking us to pay for every single character we want an outfit on at prices rather higher than other MMOs sell them for. On top of the $15/mo we give them already.

So yes, I prefer getting gear in-game.

(By the way, you can just have a friend throw the match to you. It's not that hard.)

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

(By the way, you can just have a friend throw the match to you. It's not that hard.)

I'd have to beg them to use a deck of nothing but 1 star cards and pray that they'll let me cheese a victory. And still, it's the principle of the thing.

Believe it or not, I absolutely hate begging. Asking a friend to throw the match is, in my opinion, insulting to both me and them.

Begging is extremely high on the list of things I'd never do.

((That, and I know for a fact I'd never live it down if I did. Nothnx.))

[Naunet]

I think you're putting way too much moral propriety on a silly task needed to earn points for some video game pixels. xD My husband and I trade wins with each other all the time to get our TT challenges. It's really not that big a deal. It's not begging lol.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

I was more talking about the fact I'd be mocked to no end by doing that, since I'd only use it for five minutes tops. However, that still does nothing about the fact I absolutely hate triple triad.

[Naunet]

If you'd be mocked for doing something to get an item you wanted... that says more about your "friends" than the game design, to be honest. I'm sorry.

[Yasuhiro]

I find the outfits in game to be much better, you can be more creative with them, you'll just end up looking like every other person buying/wearing the hot new flavor of the week thing. (How many people even ride bennu's anymore? That was flavor of the hour)
The only things I've bought are Lightning's outfit + Blazefire Sabre, Odin's mount and the Y'shtola outfit (Original) and I regret all four purchases. Going to just continue supporting the game through my subscription.

The Lightning outfit hurts the most, wore it to take some roleplaying pictures fighting Dreadnoughts for an hour when I realized I literally own FFXIII can just take screenshots from steam.

Edit:

. You're paying $30 to look like a Grand Summoner who in reality can't summon more than a green farting toe nail. That's okay, I'd give a F2P my money and get a lot more out of it any day at this rate, I am slowly breaking away from this game as the true colors seep through the paper.

And it was this post that saved me $40 (Aussie prices :c) as much as I love Yuna, I wont be paying for the outfit w/ the minion
Sorry Yoshida, I wont be paying for your castle this year.