Aetheryte Ticket - Useless

[Myrhn]

No one is complaining about free things. We are simply curious as to why there is a sudden change in the quality of the reward. My points are.

1. One year of service and subscription is a milestone to many for the relaunch.
2. All previous rewards have been tangible (mounts, minions, vanity).

If i gave you a stuffed animal every week for three months ,and then all of a sudden decided to gave you a dead goldfish in a bowl, you might question what my motive was. You'll gladly accept the goldfish and place it on a shelf so i don't feel bad, but then as soon as I leave you flush it down the toilet while the stuffed animals sit proudly on your bed.

As for point #2 we are also getting an Odin minion so that point is moot.

As for the other part if you give me free stuff why should i complain? I can do w/e I want with it(trash it save it or w/e) Is like whinning b/c i didn't get the latest phone on my birthday, is a gift.

[Kule]

As for point #2 we are also getting an Odin minion so that point is moot.

As for the other part if you give me free stuff why should i complain? I can do w/e I want with it(trash it save it or w/e) Is like whinning b/c i didn't get the latest phone on my birthday, is a gift.

Would you consider an Odin minion and 50 teleport tickets 'very special'? so special that yoshi P himself couldn't talk about it in the last live letter.

He hyped it up and if he never mentioned anything people wouldn't feel deflated.

[Merle]

He hyped it up and if he never mentioned anything people wouldn't feel deflated.

I really hope in the next live letter (tomorrow if i remember correctly) Yoshida will say "surprise! we were joking with you. The very special reward is X". If not, i'll feel a bit disappointed. I don't care about veteran rewards, but i'm getting a bit tired of being lied so many times...

[Myrhn]

Would you consider an Odin minion and 50 teleport tickets 'very special'? so special that yoshi P himself couldn't talk about it in the last live letter.

He hyped it up and if he never mentioned anything people wouldn't feel deflated.

I dont consider any of the reward special. I look at them as gift, i pay to play the game and i'm enjoy it so far. The veteran reward are just there, it doesn't and it won't affect me in any way what they are unless is something that affect gameplay. For me there are just some free stuff that I don't expect to get or need it.
Maybe i can make a "petition" for all the people that don't care about the ticket to amass them and give it to the less fortune so that get a 1 year free daily teleport maybe that will calm them down.

[Mychael]

As for point #2 we are also getting an Odin minion so that point is moot..

To clarify, for every previous reward, we got a minion AND another tangible item. Better?

[Ninix]

Gotta agree, the 365 day reward is incredibly underwhelming. Assuming you're paying 500g for every single teleport (which almost never happens, most I've paid is maybe 350-400, usually around 200), then these tickets are saving you... 25k. That's what, a week's worth of daily quests or dungeons?

And I agree with RuleSigea above, the real issue isn't that the "free" veteran rewards aren't good enough for us, it's more that they set a precedent of having lots of neat rewards like minipets and mounts, and then whip out something significantly less exciting for the one year milestone. Hell, they could have simply reused an old prize, the fantasia, and many people would be totally happy with it. If you're going to do a customer loyalty thing like this, you may as well be consistent.

[Peptaru]

Welcome to the new precedent all your "They set precedence" folks. Now it's all gonna be crap forever so they don't have to listen to this type of complaining in the future. "We tried giving them nice things once before..." This is why we can't have nice things.

[Mychael]

My problem isn't directly with Aetheryte tickets, it's with their choice of timing. Add these as a "refer a friend" bonus (for the friend) or a bonus for the CE. Give us a "Veteran's Crown" or something--the idea of these is to show off. Aetheryte tickets sound great as a "bonus" for buying the game. They're the kind of booster that you give new players to help them catch up; not the kind of thing you give to 1yr+ veterans. They're neither useful to us, nor are they a "Look, I've been playing forever" token.

Someone who has been subbed for a year doesn't need these, unless they've been inactive while still paying. There's really no room for argument. If you actively played FFXIV for the last year, you did not do so and survive with 0 gil. There's just no way. Personally, I am in that "unless" category--I've probably played a total of two months--and I have no problems with gil. Even though I started 2.0 with 40k, and had three 50s from 1.0 to gear up, I'm fine.

In other games, these may have been exciting as a kickstart when creating new characters, but as FFXIV largely relies on a single main character, there is no need for fully-leveled alts.

Welcome to the new precedent all your "They set precedence" folks. Now it's all gonna be crap forever so they don't have to listen to this type of complaining in the future. "We tried giving them nice things once before..." This is why we can't have nice things.

I'd rather not have nice things if Aeth Tickets are considered to be nice things. >.> I'd rather have not-nice things--like, I don't know. A mount? A vanity crown?

[MrKupo]

I want all my free things to be the best thing in the world. When I subscribed to this service, I did so under the impression that I would get more than I subscribed for. If anything, the 730 day reward better be the game going completely free to play. Thank you.

[Mychael]

Most people in this thread aren't asking for "more valuable" rewards in terms of gil value or bonuses, but just a "LOOK AT ME I'VE PAID FOR A YEAR" item.

I want all my free things to be the best thing in the world.

Crowns, mounts, and other vanity items are all the "best," right? Because they have no impact on the economy and provide no bonus to players besides feeling good about themselves?

When I subscribed to this service, I did so under the impression that I would get more than I subscribed for.

Contrary to popular belief, an in-game item is not in fact a part of the game you're subscribing to. It is equivalent to real-life money, therefore:

If anything, the 730 day reward better be the game going completely free to play. Thank you.

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