Cash shop confirmed

[Icefall]

A cash shop is nothing like buying a soundtrack that comes with a code for an in-game item. The soundtrack/book/doll/etc has value beyond just a slip of paper inside. Someone may buy the item solely for the code, but that doesn't take away the fact that you are paying for and investing in more than just that one aspect of the purchase.

I'm very disappointed that they are going this route. The pricing is steep and we don't even know yet how much the mount is. That they didn't feel comfortable putting that on the slide but showing us that minions would be $5 and past year's holiday outfits would be $3 (instead of an in-game gil sink option), says quite a bit to me about how comfortable they feel about the plan as a whole. They were afraid to tell a live crowd face to face.

[Mahri]

tbh, after seeing Yoshi-P being an awesome bro to pretty much everyone, I'm looking for more excuses to give these people my money anyway.

[Yshnal]

You do know your sub fee is just to renew your license to play the game, right? Nothing else.

Do you know that if I feel that what pay VS what I get, or if I feel that my money is not well invested in the game, I can stop paying, right?

[SpookyGhost]

you guys saying this is gonna make you leave, please do, you pollute the fun community that drives this game. Take your "my game opened a store" problems to another game.

Just going to throw this out there, since this argument is brought up a lot. When enough people leave an MMO, that MMO dies. A lot of people "didn't like" 1.0, and what happened with that? There are many, many games that have died because enough people disagreed with the company's decisions or the MMOs in general that the MMOs themselves didn't have enough funding to continue and were shut down. I understand supporting an idea from a company and being confused when a vast amount of people are complaining about it, but MMOs don't work like... let's say, your own house. If you invite someone over, and they're not having fun, you can say "please leave my house" and they will go but you will still have that house as the person you had over wasn't paying your bills. However, let's say you live in an apartment with a roommate and you both share all the expenses - if you kicked your roommate out, now you have to pay all the bills on your own. Which could easily lead to you not being able to pay them at all and you losing the apartment. That's what happens when MMOs just decide not to please their consumers, they lose their playerbase, lose their funding, and die. The best thing to do is compromise and come up with a solution, not be a bratty kid and say "Pft! I'm burning your house down but if you don't like it you can just leave, I don't see the problem!".

[Stignodding]

People complaining about this are like the old people that shake their fist at a new store opening down the street. Something new and somewhere you never have to go to, but it's there now. You might see people wearing the stuff from this new store, and god forbid it doesn't give you a heart attack, just continue to shake that fist. And hate the people that are funding the game you are playing.

[Arisme]

what kind of mentality you need to have to defend a in game cash shop on a sub based mmo?.
how is posible that poeple think is ok, it dosnt matter if it is pay to win or just cosmetic stuff, that thing belongs on a free to play mmo, this is the most disrespectful thing you can do to your player base, and is a shame because i love the game, this is a spit in the face and im not suporting it, im not gonna resub.

[Alberel]

Your analogy is wrong. You buy a magazine subscription, you get the magazine. If they were to tear out pages and charge them, that'd be like SE tearing out Primal instances and charging you to be able to fight them.

Instead they're tearing out the pictures and leaving you with a magazine full of text and holes.

[Stignodding]

Just going to throw this out there, since this argument is brought up a lot. When enough people leave an MMO, that MMO dies. A lot of people "didn't like" 1.0, and what happs the person you had over wasn't paying your bills. However, let's say you live in an apartment with a roommate and you both share all the expenses - if you kicked your roommate out, now you have to pay all the bills on your own. Which could easily lead to you not being able to pay them at all and you losing the apartment. That's what happens when MMOs just decide not to please their consumers, they lose their playerbase, lose their funding, and die. The best thing to do is compromise and come up with a solution, not be a bratty kid and say "Pft! I'm burning your house down but if you don't like it you can just leave, I don't see the problem!".

Thank you for your reply, and I can see the amount of heart you put in it, but what the actual hell are you talking about??

[Ramath]

It never ceases to amaze me...

If this is something that is truly disrupting your ability to enjoy the game, on either side of this petty and ridiculous argument, you have serious problems that need to be addressed.

I'll try and explain this, nice and slow... ready?

IT'S. JUST. A. VIDEO. GAME.

I you are incapable of having fun, if this is preventing you from enjoying a meaningless pass time (by the way, that's all this is: a meaningless pass time), you are doing it wrong.

If you don't like it, fine! You're entitled to your opinions. But, for the love of all that is pointless and entertaining, learn to accept what you don't like and focus on what you do!

[Mahri]

this is a spit in the face

excuse me, the proper angry internet person term is "slap in the face".