Eternal Bond - Standard Plan and Gold Plan

[Xhominid]

If we are being completely honest here, that's not an overreaction at all. Go look at what other MMOs have done with their "will only ever be vanity WINK WINK" cash shops. One sells special cash shop only quests, and their sub fee is higher than FF14's.

Leaving the forums stating he has no idea why someone is buying something of their own volition is happening like it's completely alien to them is not an overreaction? That's absolutely new to me...
And I played those other MMOs that have Vanity Cash Shops(TERA, Vindictus, Aion) and out of those 3, ONLY ONE has turned into that(Aion) and a HUGE chunk of players doesn't support that in the least.

[FriendlyUncle]

Leaving the forums stating he has no idea why someone is buying something of their own volition is happening like it's completely alien to them is not an overreaction? That's absolutely new to me...
And I played those other MMOs that have Vanity Cash Shops(TERA, Vindictus, Aion) and out of those 3, ONLY ONE has turned into that(Aion) and a HUGE chunk of players doesn't support that in the least.

Those are also all titles that went or were F2P

[Mattiux]

And over reaction of the day goes to.....

Please tell me more about how entitled you feel. And how I'm not allowed to choose where to spend my money.

This is only our normal reaction.

You can buy my gold reaction for 7.99$

Hurry!!!

[Kaeda_Valentyne]

Ok, all I have to say to the white knights is do yourself a favor and read Animal Farm.
Maybe then it will sink in on what companies will do to make money.
They start off great with all of these good ideas and polices on how they're going to be better that what was there before then they nickel and dime you all the while convincing you its for the greater good. Then you end up in the same situation you left wondering how the hell it ended up this way.

Quit being horses and strive to be the donkey in this story. Stop following the pigs around buying into all their bull.

[Felis]

Ok, all I have to say to the white knights is do yourself a favor and read Animal Farm.
Maybe then it will sink in on what companies will do to make money.
They start off great with all of these good ideas and polices on how they're going to be better that what was there before then they nickel and dime you all the while convincing you its for the greater good. Then you end up in the same situation you left wondering how the hell it ended up this way.

Quit being horses and strive to be the donkey in this story. Stop following the pigs around buying into all their bull.

I thought this was a anti-communism movie?
With the farmer as a capitalist, the pigs as the communists , the "all are equal" as the ideology, that got turned later into "all are equal, but some are more equal", because the pigs (the communism leaders) became corrupt.

I don't think SE have something to do with communists

[Kaeda_Valentyne]

I thought this was a anti-communism movie?
With the farmer as a capitalist, the pigs as the communists , the "all are equal" as the ideology, that got turned later into "all are equal, but some are more equal", because the pigs (the communism leaders) became corrupt.

I don't think SE have something to do with communists

It's a book written by George Orwell, in regards to the Russian revolution. So yes it was written about communism, but that doesn't mean its point cant be used for current issues.
SE or any current company/government only cares about the money they make or their own bottom line. None of them care about us as individuals and they wont change their practices as long as it keeps getting them what they want. Just more people have to wake up and notice what is actually going on around them. The only person who is going to look out for you is you.

[Hyouretsuzan]

If only we saw this coming. If only SE gave us a clue that they were gonna do some sort of Cash Shop. Oh wait they did. The moment we read and agreed to their ToS. Oh well! what can you do?

[jars]

hah yeah, if it was free everyone would be marrying random people off the street in ul'duh just to get the mount. kind of removes the point.

[Orrias]

Well they announced 2 plans for eternal bond in the live letter. Standard plan is free. Gold plan costs money but gets you mount+minion and more dress options.

So will you get a gold plan wedding knowing it costs money? I wonder if both people have to pay money. But more details with the patch notes.

This is such a bad idea. "Not pay to win"... No, it's a subscription based MMO with an increasing amount of content that requires additional payment for it to feel more worthwhile. I hope this isn't going to set precedent for other content in future patches, by splitting up content for customers... oh wait (-__________-)".

[Norna]

I think we can all agree that $€ is triple-dipping by now:
First, you will have to pay for both the game and expansions.
Second, you will have to pay a monthly subscription.
Third, there is a cash shop, in which you will have to pay...
...If you want the full (vanity counts as content, especially when this game relies so much on the Pretty Factor to get a leg up on WoW and others) experience.

And apparently even when triple-dipping, they cannot afford a larger team (to make proper bare feet, balanced anatomy and so on), better servers (housing, storage in housing, you get the idea), better ISP/server location (so that it wont be faux-quad-dipping as their customers have to use VPNs, which also costs money) and whatever else people have been asking for for quite a while.

I remember feeling disappointment when extra retainers (storage) became a sub-fee thing. Now I'm kinda resigned and annoyed with it all. Especially as they rely so much on Cash Shop Items to create hype.