The FFXIV Portrait Magnets up for preorder are BLIND BOXES?!

[CuteBucket]

Bruh, they may as well stop selling permanent outfits on the Mog Station and just start listing them as new outfits that expire every 90 days.

Can you imagine if a new outfit was released on the mogstation, but now you have to pay five bucks to open a box and get one single random PIECE of the outfit you wanted? Oh, you're a viera or hrothgar player and you rolled a hat? Damn, tough luck! Better spend another five dollars and try again!

I hate lootboxes/gatcha mechanics so goddamn much.

[cutestfox]

my friend did some maths, here are your odds of getting Y many uniques after opening X many boxes



tl;dr the odds of getting all eight with the purchase of:
one pack: 0.24%
two packs: 30.7%
three packs: 70.3%

Imagine spending $264 + S/H and still having a 1-in-3 chance of not getting all 8 magnets

[DonutSteel]

Bruh, they may as well stop selling permanent outfits on the Mog Station and just start listing them as new outfits that expire every 90 days.

*Maplestory Flashbacks*

[Brynne]

I noticed it too - I was thinking of buying a set, but I'm definitely not going to waste my money on blind boxes. Plus, I'll bet they made G'raha one of the rarest ones. I'd probably end up with 5 Kan-E-Sennas and 3 Alphinauds.

[CuteBucket]

my friend did some maths, here are your odds of getting Y many uniques after opening X many boxes



tl;dr the odds of getting all eight with the purchase of:
one pack: 0.24%
two packs: 30.7%
three packs: 70.3%

Imagine spending $264 + S/H and still having a 1-in-3 chance of not getting all 8 magnets

Oh no, those numbers are DIRE

I play enough TTRPGs to know how garbage my luck can get. HELL NO

[Gaddes]

Yeah... even the site I normally order imported FFXIV stuff from is only selling them blind and not specific ones... no way I'm gonna risk getting Kan-E-Senna when I'm trying to shoot for Haurchefant/Aymeric/G'raha.

It's also weird that this new big set has some generic portrait/easel frame and not something that looks more like the frames that the in-game portraits have. The previous set had a more detailed framing and they looked great.

[ReynTime]

Can you imagine spending 88 dollars and every single one you get turns out to be Kann-e-Sena?

[Carin-Eri]

Can you imagine if a new outfit was released on the mogstation, but now you have to pay five bucks to open a box and get one single random PIECE of the outfit you wanted? Oh, you're a viera or hrothgar player and you rolled a hat? Damn, tough luck! Better spend another five dollars and try again!

I hate lootboxes/gatcha mechanics so goddamn much.

Same! And to be frank, it can be even worse.

I came to FFXIV from another MMO I'd played for 12 years. An MMO which started off okay but took at look at gambleboxes as a method of income and eventually based it's entire business model on selling them (and stupidly expensive bundles).
Imagine you want a particular weapon - you open a box and receive an item of garden furniture for a house you don't own. Oh well, bad luck - better buy another 5 box bundle and keep trying.

And in the background the game eventually started to suffer, as the Devs focus switched from making new playable content to making the gambleboxes more attractive to maintain profitability. And the worst part? They never revealed the odds of winning the 'main prize' (though they were independently worked out to be preposterously low) - I gather that, to this day, they seem to feel that they're under no obligation to do so.

To be honest, I'd almost definitely quit if gambleboxes found their way into this game. I've seen firsthand how they can ruin an MMO.

[Eraden]

Mao likes doing things like maps even though thems has RNG in thems but Mao not actually gamblings with real moneys. As soon as real moneys involved Mao goes "NOPES". Is because odds always favor the house. SE must be desperate for moneys if thems willing to taint FFXIV with such gamblings.

[caffe_macchiato]

That's japan for you. They love gacha elements over there for some dumb reason.

Isn't it weird how American players infantilize Japanese people by making these broad sweeping generalizations based on what they see in a video game? It's vapid Orientalism. It's like you're describing the behaviors of a toddler who can't think for itself. This isn't the first time people here have pulled the "myserious Orient" card to justify a bad business practice.