Eternal Bond - Standard Plan and Gold Plan

[AggieRick]

but paying money so that you can arbitrary separate yourself from "the masses" is ridiculous.

Ridiculous maybe but also pretty much human nature

[Gaelu]

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you know, the only thing the mount would MEAN is that you paid for content that could've been free.
and when i see people riding the mount, it's going to give me a sour taste in my mouth, just like with the odin mount and the "recruit-a-friend mount". (i have more gil than that person, i have gotten further in the game, i have better gear and i have more of the story. so, why the F*** can't i have a freaking mount/minion!?)

[Akuryu]

I really fear for the future of this game with micro-transactions slowly working their way in, and with so much of the fanbase eager to accept them. Keep telling yourself this won't get out hand.

I'm sure if/when this is a huge success, every future event or feature will have a "peasant" version, while the real full version gets locked behind a paywall.

[Windklinge]

and so it begins here aswell... sigh. moron fanboys make EVERYTHING possible it seems. i have seen these things happen before. at first many people said : uh it wont be so bad. or thall never happen folks! but then after maybe one or two more years it STARTS to happen. and then its to late to stop it. pay to winlers aka whales will take over slowly. they will defend everything on the shop with excuses and so on. saw this happen on many other mmos.

there is no way to stop it guys. its useless to argue with these people. aslong as they are the majority out there this will work for the game sadly and it will make em extra money deluxe. and thats why its gonna happen. its human stupidness. no way to fix THAT...

[Riepah]

I really fear for the future of this game with micro-transactions slowly working their way in, and with so much of the fanbase eager to accept them. Keep telling yourself this won't get out hand.

I'm sure if/when this is a huge success, every future event or feature will have a "peasant" version, while the real full version gets locked behind a paywall.

"Slowly" you say, but it's honestly proceeding much faster than I feared. That they'd put long-promised features like the Eternal Bond Chocobo behind a paywall hit me by surprise, I must admit.

aslong as they are the majority out there this will work for the game sadly and it will make em extra money deluxe.

Unfortunately, they don't even need the majority. I've seen people spending 2000$ on "Free to Play" games in their first month after launch. A spending-happy, small minority would keep the game afloat just fine, it wouldn't matter if more than half of the current players quit as long as there are those who're happy to spend more and more for "optional" content.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Remember the white knights telling us how this things were not going to happen? content locked behind paywalls? how we were just telling a "slippery slope". Well, isn`t a slippery slope anymore, is closer to a damn avalanche.

This whole thing is beyond terrible. The division of the Eternal Bond in 2 separate plans is bad, terrible. Content once again being moved behind a paywall and just wait for gold saucer and actually, any "optional content".

[Razzle]

You guys 100% sure it will cost real money?

um, its $E we're talking about. Why even doubt? lol

[Zentsa]

um, its $E we're talking about. Why even doubt? lol

Very usefull comment.

[FireHero]

All I have to say is whats the big deal? None of this extra stuff effects game play. I don't mind having to fork out a bit of my cash to get these extra things. Just think how long they been working on all this, High chance they went over on board for this. So to make some money back from the cost and time spent they bring a premium feature that dose not really effect game play. I will be buying the premium package for it to show my thanks for the hard work they have done on it.


Now with golden sauce I hope they do not do the same cause I wont touch it if there is a pay to win system with it. Golden saucer needs to stay 100% away from mog station as that is just a no no.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Unfortunately, they don't even need the majority. I've seen people spending 2000$ on "Free to Play" games in their first month after launch. A spending-happy, small minority would keep the game afloat just fine, it wouldn't matter if more than half of the current players quit as long as there are those who're happy to spend more and more for "optional" content.

This is what happens when people with too little brains have too much money to throw around. What's the worst is when they don't even see how stupid their decision was, even when the game tanks horribly.

Prime example: ArcheAge.

But it's these types of people who enable companies like SE to manhandle them and constantly beat them up in a dark alley for more money in addition to what they already spend. Small wonder I hate whales.