REVIVE INGAME ITEMS FOR EVERYONE

[Chippawaffen]

if anything would love old pvp mount and armor
just make them 100k marks or something and it would boost pvp outside of tome events and frontline roulette

[technole]

That would entirely defeat the purpose of preordering and FOMO as a sales tactic in general.

If people haven't learned by now after four expansions that preorder codes are time-limited I don't know what to tell them. Many official merch and blu-ray in-game codes are limited quantity too.

[Artemiz]

Irrational anxiety is irrational anxiety sometimes it's so bad that even if you know it's irrational, you are still affected by it.
It's to trigger the same fight or flight response that scammers use when they have "YOU HAVE X MINUTES TO RESPOND TO THIS OR ELSE JAIL/FEE/REPOSESSION/ETC" If you have an unmitigated anxiety disorder, it's real easy to fall prey to these tactics without knowing.

Those scams prey on the vulnerable, they work against people with mental difficulties and the elderly, mainly. While this should be taken seriously I don't think it really applies to an offer that's valid for 6 months and nets you a minion and an earring in an MMO.

Compulsive buyers are the target whales for fomo tactics. These are those that can drop thousands of dollars on gacha games, not because they're stupid, but they have a genuine problem. Companies know this, and they don't care, because this exploitation is easy money.

Funny you should mention whales, they are the target of freemium games rather than subscription MMO's but I read an article the other day on gameanalytics.com. They looked at 175 million players and determined that 1.03% are minnows, 0.86% are dolphins and 0.2% are whales with 97.91% of players spending nothing at all. Expecting a company to change it's marketing strategy because 0.2% of players spend too much is probably asking too much.

I read up a bit on fomo as we'd been talking about it. I read about 6 or 7 articles discussing why it's a problem for society, I chose articles highlighting it as problematic. Not one of them mentioned marketing even once. Every single one talked exclusively about social media and how it's easy to get the idea everyone else has better lives than us, go on more holidays, have nicer meals and a better social life.

I'm not saying I'm a fan of fomo marketing tactics, I just think for the vast majority of people it's an internal problem, not an external one. As for FF14, 6 months to get the items is very generous by fomo standards even for a AAA game. 24 hours was a very common window to purchase items in Call of Duty for example.

[MrPresident]

You can tell in this thread who threw a tantrum when they were asked to share their toys as a kid.

[Artemiz]

You can tell in this thread who threw a tantrum when they were asked to share their toys as a kid.

Very cute. You could also argue this thread shows who has an entitlement complex and wants toys other kids are playing with but I'd prefer to have an adult discussion, personally.