Gift option for Cash Shop/Crysta

[DPWolf]

Please make a gift option - at the very least, for Crysta we can send to another service account. Opinion might vary on the shop, but I'd like to at least be able to send a friend Crysta as a gift for something in there.

[Coombah]

I agree, thats a very thoughtful idea.

[Zuellni]

This would be great especially with the holdiay season coming up.

[Sakuraluna]

I like this idea, it would be really nice to have the option. I'd actually assumed beforehand that we'd have a "send as gift" option, and was kind of disappointed there isn't one.

[Edeline]

No. That's when it becomes stupid and people sell cash shop items for Gil and become rich just by selling vanity stuff with no effort. Do you want 1m+ per materia? because that's how you get 1m+ per materia.

[DPWolf]

No. That's when it becomes stupid and people sell cash shop items for Gil and become rich just by selling vanity stuff with no effort. Do you want 1m+ per materia? because that's how you get 1m+ per materia.

As far as I know, all but the pumpkins are untradable/unsellable, which could easily be fixed if this is implemented. If this cash shop is going to be stuff from past events/minions/mounts (things that are generally unique and untradable), would there be that much of an issue?

Actually, I'm not sure how this affects a gift option or not - if things are currently sellable, wouldn't people be able to make a ton of money and not have to think about gifting a means for others to buy them?

[Altijacek]

I would think everything cannot be traded, so a gift option would place the gift in the person you wish to gift's mog mail. Would be a wonderful surprise. I am against cash shop, but would love to buy stuff for my gf as a surprise, so I can get behind that. Make it happen!

[Edeline]

As far as I know, all but the pumpkins are untradable/unsellable, which could easily be fixed if this is implemented. If this cash shop is going to be stuff from past events/minions/mounts (things that are generally unique and untradable), would there be that much of an issue?

Actually, I'm not sure how this affects a gift option or not - if things are currently sellable, wouldn't people be able to make a ton of money and not have to think about gifting a means for others to buy them?

People would shout for buying/selling through gift system to get untradeable items on other players. Like I give you for example 20k gil and you gift my character X item. Other games have this system on their cash shops and it's always the same. It's a legalized RMT, because you're paying SE, not someone else getting profit on it. And players get rich in game with no effort, and high spenders acumulate so much Gil in a short period of time, buying overpriced items, changing the economy and inflating the prices even more.

[Mjollnir]

In light of the recent proposed cash shop addition and the fact that it's drawing nearer to Christmas, I feel the need to resurrect this thread which (imo) didn't get the attention it deserved.

Also, Nel told me to try and find a positive angle.

I'm wholly against buying myself mounts and minions (damned SE double-dipping cashgrabbers), but I'd like to be able to buy gifts this holiday season for FC buddies (suddenly I don't mind the cash shop as much). A purchase in Mogstation which sends the item to the MoogleMailBox of someone on your friends list would be ideal.

[Sessurea]

Noobs getting rich, and destroying the marketboard. No thanks.

In the least, we can hope some of these noobs are too stupid/scared to go with illegal rmt. last thing we wanna do is throw a means to getting legit bought gil in rich noobs faces. Noobs noobs noobs.

I can't see a reason for this to exist. if people want stuff, then effing buy it. Gil is mindlessly easy to make. real money is not.

I can imagine SE doing this anyway though. Legit rmt, way to go. They'd make a fortune right about now with all the 110 gear and material. But they also seem to care about the economy....some bit at least.

edit; and yes, theres probably that 1/500 ppl who would actually like to gift a friend stuff. So don't go getting forum white knight on me please.