Thread: 2.2 Retainers via Microtransactions

Yoshida: We hope to offer some items for sale, but nothing that will affect game balance.

It seems that a lot of users are interested in sales of Fantasia (the item to change your character model), so how about that?

Yoshida: We're going to be talking about that in the LIVE producer letter on the 21st. Also, we're planning to introduce the ability to purchase an additional service which increases the number of available retainers. It'll be even more valuable with the additional retainer systems available with the patch which will make retainers more useful than ever.

I like how he says they won't sell anything that affects game balance, but then his next answer he says they are selling retainers, and with 2.2 it will be more valuable because they are making them more useful. You start to wonder after a while if he actually hears what he is saying, or if in his mind it's just an endless loop of the Oscar Mayer Weiner song.

Originally Posted by Mcshiggs

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Yeah well... you know the power of editing and interview direction...

Originally Posted by Dhex

It doesn't say anywhere that the service is purchase via Mogstation in his interview. "Yoshida: We hope to offer some items for sale, but nothing that will affect game balance.

>>It seems that a lot of users are interested in sales of Fantasia (the item to change your character model), so how about that?

Yoshida: We're going to be talking about that in the LIVE producer letter on the 21st. Also, we're planning to introduce the ability to purchase an additional service which increases the number of available retainers. It'll be even more valuable with the additional retainer systems available with the patch which will make retainers more useful than ever.

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The interviewer's question leads into the subject of items - never does he explicitly say that Fantasia or Retainers will be a transaction made via Mogstation.

Retainers are a hired service in-game that you get for free for what you did for the Scions. It could be that the transaction he is discussing in the interview is made in game for gil or tokens - Mog Locker was similar to this in FFXI - you purchased a Locker (additional inventory) for Imperial Coins which you could trade points in to acquire (Grand Company Seals?). Similarly he does not mention Fantasia as a microtransaction - just that they will be talking about them in the next letter.

So I think the micro-transactions arguing and the P2W ridiculousness is premature.

You are being alarmists.


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The irony would be him announcing that Fantasia and additional Retainers are in-game gil transactions and the forum erupting with threads about how "Square is too stupid to charge money for additional services game is going to fail" - because you know that's how people here act. Ever since Beta - P2P will fail! F2P is trash! P2W is lame I will quit!

Keep on coming up with lots of reasons not to play at all; instead you can sit on this forum and argue and pout at each other over things none of you can control.