Best MMO

[Ceta]

Hi.

Join me in pushing a Realm Reborn to the top position.

Until December 31st you can vote on your favourite MMO, MOBA, or Shooter. Which game was the Best MMO of 2014?

http://www.mmogames.com/topmmos/best-mmo-of-2014/

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[Riepah]

They can buy my vote in the cash shop.

[craig_meredith2003]

They can buy my vote in the cash shop.

lol yes this +1

[Yshnal]

I would vote them if the game had the same philosophy that it had a year ago (when they were even gifting us things like the fat chocobo), instead of pulling that cash shop everywhere lately. That's the game that I supported and that had a lot of success, the one that did a good job with its rebirth and that treated players fairly and kept them by keeping them happy and having fun, instead of trying to take their money nickel and diming them shamelessly.

Yes, there's good things now too, but sadly there's things like the cash shop that turn me down.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

The cash shop is optional, though. It is not required to play. It has options in it if you want that content.

[HakuroDK]

They're not even PUSHING the cash shop. Like, at all. The Cash Shop is buried deep within the Mog Station and is not even tied into the game whatsoever. You have to physically close the game, go to the Mog Station, buy the items outright (which, again, are completely cosmetic and have zero gameplay advantages to them), then start the game back up again.

The sad part? Most of the other MMOs in this category have a P2W cash shop. GW2, WoW, Archeage, EVE, SWTOR, Neverwinter, RIFT... and those are only the MMOs I've played.

So don't even start with that "Oh this game has a cash shop, abandon ship!" jade, because most MMOs on the market today do it and they do it far worse than it's done here. Count your blessings. We could have had a cash shop like WoW where you can literally buy your way to level cap.

[Alistaire]

They can buy my vote in the cash shop.

People are still butthurt about that? Wow. I'd almost forgotten all about it. (that's a hint; it really is that forgettable an addition if you just get over it)

[Songi]

The cash shop is optional, though. It is not required to play. It has options in it if you want that content.

Yeah, optional...for now. With Eternal Bond having cash shop tethered to it, you already know Gold Saucer will have cash shop components as well. So pretty much any new system being implemented will be supplemented by cash shop. It's the lazy development, focused on real money that's causing me to stop subbing once my time runs out next week.

[Yshnal]

They're not even PUSHING the cash shop. Like, at all. The Cash Shop is buried deep within the Mog Station and is not even tied into the game whatsoever. You have to physically close the game, go to the Mog Station, buy the items outright (which, again, are completely cosmetic and have zero gameplay advantages to them), then start the game back up again.

The sad part? Most of the other MMOs in this category have a P2W cash shop. GW2, WoW, Archeage, EVE, SWTOR, Neverwinter, RIFT... and those are only the MMOs I've played.

So don't even start with that "Oh this game has a cash shop, abandon ship!" jade, because most MMOs on the market today do it and they do it far worse than it's done here. Count your blessings. We could have had a cash shop like WoW where you can literally buy your way to level cap.

So because WoW and F2P MMOs do it, we have to be ok with that. I'm sorry, but I DON'T, and I'm going to keep saying it.

That's not the quality P2P MMO that I was playing before "special" people started asking to pay MORE for things that we were getting already in-game with our monthly sub. And now we have this crap, and each time they put something else in the game it ends up turning even worse.

If you keep saying that it's ok, that it's not the end of the world, that X and Y games do blahblahblah, instead of saying "enough, we're already paying a sub and it was working for months", they'll keep doing it. Eventually, and as I said in another thread, we might as well end up paying for each and every patch. After all, our sub only covers access to the servers, right?

You all can try to use as many excuses as you want, but the truth is that things are going down a path that some of us don't like at all, and that it only harms us, their customers. Do I have to remind anyone how back when the draught chocobo was introduced some people said that it was okay because we would be able to get another one in-game via eternal bond? What has happened now?

[Alukah]

People are still butthurt about that? Wow. I'd almost forgotten all about it. (that's a hint; it really is that forgettable an addition if you just get over it)

Some features of eternal bonding will be linked to the cash shop.