Square-Enix's "How the Mog Station Stole Christmas!"

[Niqote]

Do you mean the Starlight Sentinel (Indoor tree) that is 280k on your server?

[Canadane]

Number of possible combinations is not the same as being creative. Being creative is more about how you use your available options not the number of options you have.

I hit my post limit last night and couldn't really expand on what I meant, but thank you, you summed it up nicely.

[Lithe]

Just saying, but a lot of people ask for things to get put in cash shop so they get it right now instead of having to do work in game. Now SE just throws everything in CS. You got what you asked for. Maybe now people will start asking for things to be available in game instead of the dozens of threads asking for some silly glamor/mount to be in the CS ASAP!

[Culfinrandir]

Just saying, but a lot of people ask for things to get put in cash shop so they get it right now instead of having to do work in game. Now SE just throws everything in CS. You got what you asked for. Maybe now people will start asking for things to be available in game instead of the dozens of threads asking for some silly glamor/mount to be in the CS ASAP!

Yep. That's exactly why, come 4.0, the Cash Shop will allow you to buy a pair of potions to instantly make you lvl60 & i270 (or thereabouts) with gil, a chocobo & the like at the ready. All to satisfy the needs of the lazy.

[Lukha]

I hit my post limit last night and couldn't really expand on what I meant, but thank you, you summed it up nicely.

But surely you and Ultimatecalibur have to admit that it's easier to be creative with more options? I certainly can't think of any reasonable argument to the contrary, so if you have one, please enlighten me.

[Canadane]

Easier to make something unique (not equivalent to creative, mind you) comes with a large number of options.
Restrictions on options cause people to be more creative with their designs because they may not be able to simply slap on the shiny new item of the patch.
I could probably expand an entire page worth of words on this but you can't seem to grasp creativity, so it'd be difficult for me to continue.
But perhaps a difference of perspective is what's causing the misunderstanding. It's not about what an individual player can bring to themselves, it's what a player looking out at other players in the game see. It's about the perspective from a third party.

[Krokov]

Last Christmas, they gave us a tree, but the very next day you threw them away. This year, to save them from tears, they made it into something special.

I read that singing it to the tune lol

[Krokov]

I like that they give you the option to obtain items that you may have missed from past events. Granted you have to pay cash for them but for the most part it's trivial what you have to pay i.e. not a lot that is. SE if you read this thank you for giving people players the opportunity to obtain stuff that they may have missed, I hope you continue on with it.

[Austherus]

Just saying, but a lot of people ask for things to get put in cash shop so they get it right now instead of having to do work in game. Now SE just throws everything in CS. You got what you asked for. Maybe now people will start asking for things to be available in game instead of the dozens of threads asking for some silly glamor/mount to be in the CS ASAP!

That's not how it works, SE would put stuff on the cash shop anyway, with people asking for it or not. They just jumped into the bandwagon with those very vocal players and adopted their plead as a reason to their move.

[RubyCirha]

You know I'm totaly ok with the mog station I feel like it gives new players a means to get loot that they would have otherwise missed and it helps fund the game so you know what I'm ok with it missed out on an item all well it's a digital item is it realy worth all this complaining want one buy one is 5 $most of the time so meh