Aetheryte Ticket - Useless

[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?