Aetheryte Ticket - Useless

[SIXTYONESIX]

I get a laugh out of the whole "slap in the face" mentality. You all subbed and continue to sub to the game before AND after you knew about all these meaningless rewards, and SE is under no obligation to give you anything "special" just for subscribing. The game is what you get for your money, and if you don't feel like you are getting your money's worth, no one is making you stay.

While it might indeed be a little lackluster of a reward compared to some of the others they have doled out, I would hardly call any of these items a slap in the face. It's just something extra that they didn't even have to give the ungrateful masses in the first place.

Should feel lucky they even keep the game running. If it was my game and it had this whiny/entitled/ungrateful community, I would have shut the servers down a long time ago.

[XiaoliVorgan]

It's funny to see how blindly optimistic people are regarding Square-Enix as if they had not been paying attention for the last 10 years. Anyone expecting it to be a permanent (or long term) free teleport are going to be severely disappointed. There's a good probability that it's going to be a stack of 10-50 single use tickets. That's how Squeenix operates.

PSYCHIC WIZARDRY! You guessed it.

Also lol, I like all the people who say it's entitlement because people aren't satisfied with the rewards, cause clearly everyone should shut up and take what they are given and be happy. Sure there are some people overexaggerating but I can see where their gripe is coming from. (Have to learn that with SE, use the extreme opposite of the word they use to describe something and then you'll have it right, for instance Awesome here would be Simple, Extraordinary would be Run of the Mill, Very Special would be Leftover meatloaf from a week ago.

Anyway, let's be real, if the option to buy 180 days for absolutely nothing, no reward, were available, we'd all be falling over our wallets to buy 180 days in advance, for ya know.. nothing but the joy of knowing we can play for... 180 days. I bet the cash would be rolling in! /endsarcasm

Let's be real, those people who keep saying you don't pay to get the rewards, where are you getting your info? The fact that they show you "all the goodies you can get in advance" is a pretty good reason people actually pay for so much more time. I don't think there is a huge amount of people who paid for X in advance just for the kicks of having time (i'm sure there are some, but I'd be willing to bet they have collections/ FF shrines/plushies set up in their house to this game, the true hardcore FF fan with the posters everywhere etc) and not because something sparkly was attached to it. I'm one of those people who liked my shinies, up to the grand company leader minions. I loooove the minions.

Really glad there is a minion coming cause the tickets will be up on the board ASAP if they aren't untradeable. However, I'm not pressed enough to pay in advance for a minion I can get later on. I'll get it the regular way, or pay buy month until a shiney is attached that's worth plopping a chunk of money on it (to me). Everyone else can do whatever they want with their cash.

[Tupsi]

PSYCHIC WIZARDRY! You guessed it.

Also lol, I like all the people who say it's entitlement because people aren't satisfied with the rewards, cause clearly everyone should shut up and take what they are given and be happy.

It's an optional reward they don't even have to do. They should just drop the veteran reward system because clearly when you pay monthly or by x months you're not paying to play an MMORPG, you're paying for a veteran reward.

Yep.

Let's be real, those people who keep saying you don't pay to get the rewards

Maybe it's because I'm from pre DLC era of gaming..but when I pay for a game or MMO that has a monthly cost, it's usually to access the game content I'm getting with my money..not "extras" unless I buy a collectors edition that comes with physical extras.

[LalaRu]

I'll take a longer sub in advance because some of the rewards are nice to me. Does not means all rewards must be nice to me.
If you see vet rewards as incentive to subs, they have got me

[ReiszRie]

It's an optional reward they don't even have to do. They should just drop the veteran reward system because clearly when you pay monthly or by x months you're not paying to play an MMORPG, you're paying for a veteran reward.

It is no longer optional when the devs have made it a point to emphasize on the veteran rewards program and having past veteran rewards serve as precedence on what to expect from veteran rewards.

honestly, what exactly is your problem? its not as though being vocal against the implementation of a useless veteran reward will bring you disbenefit, if anything, its the opposite.

[Emtron]

whiny/entitled/ungrateful community.

That pretty much sums up any large scale online gaming community.

[Peptaru]

The problem here is avarice; nothing more, nothing less. The people who say shut up and eat the free cake are judging the greedy folks. I am of the shut up and eat the free cake crowd, too.

[lackofwords]

What I'm reading here are a lot of blanket statements, and some extreme ends on both sides.

It's one thing to acknowledge how someone's opposing opinion that conflict with your own, but it's another to accuse people of being something or another.

I'll just sum up the thoughts for both sides.

A: People subscribe to the game for the game itself, and not the milestone rewards.
B: Both milestone rewards should be appropriately reflect the commemoration of the milestone itself.

A: People who receive the gift should be grateful that there was a gift at all.
B: Gifts with practical use serves a better purpose on earlier commemorations. Such as how fantasia was designed in mind for people coming in from FFXIV 1.0.

A: Saving gil is always useful. You can sell the tickets for gil (assumed)
B: All previous rewards are account bound and untradeable. Tickets most likely will be untradeable as well (assumed)

And the extremes
A: No one gets anything, cry-babies should quit the game.
B: Want more than 50 tickets, want something permanently practical.

And I'll just quote people who seem right of mind speaking for both opinions;

They stated vet rewards will be vanity at best. You're paying to play an MMO - you have access to much more than an once a month perk. Even if the game is low on the content side, you can get much more by actually playing than hoping for something for "free"..you're not getting what you paid for?

This is exactly why you shouldn't give out items that give players some sort of advantage. Do too much, you've warped the balance for new players. Do too little, and the committed players feel insulted.

[XiaoliVorgan]

It's an optional reward they don't even have to do. They should just drop the veteran reward system because clearly when you pay monthly or by x months you're not paying to play an MMORPG, you're paying for a veteran reward.

Yep.

Maybe it's because I'm from pre DLC era of gaming..but when I pay for a game or MMO that has a monthly cost, it's usually to access the game content I'm getting with my money..not "extras" unless I buy a collectors edition that comes with physical extras.

I'm not getting it. Why do you even care how someone else spends their money? It's not effecting your gameplay is it? It is a optional reward, which means MORE than one option and choosing to pay more for the incentives doesn't mean they suddenly stopped playing the game because they have their incentives.

I'm pretty sure everyone can stop playing at any time, no matter how much more or more less time they bought. Everyone just may not have chose the same option as you and that's ok, trust me. You don't need to worry about it,

I promise.

[WHS]

To confirm what many of you have read only through Twitter, the 360-day Veteran Reward will grant users fifty (50) consumable Aetheryte Tickets and is optionally used as an item within one's inventory bag when teleporting.

I really recommend you make this a consumable Key Item that after finally consumed just goes away. Putting it in players bag and just adding to the bags too full already problem some ppl have expressed. Not all ppl have this issue but some do. Think about it.