"please look forward to it"

[BigPapaSmurf]

You're teaching us not to look forward to anything.

You get a lesser, second-class wedding dress if you don't pay into our Cash Shop!

Personal Housing, it's the same!

Golden Saucer, tokens in Cash Shop!

You're going about this all wrong SE.

[Mitracia]

/tinfoil hat

[kyuven]

I refuse to begrudge them anything if they decide to have triple triad cards/packs in the cash shop. I mean...that's how you DO a collectible card game. I'd actually be more surprised if it WASN'T in the cash shop.
I am telling everyone this now: Triple Triad will have portions in the cash shop. It is unavoidable, it WILL happen if the game gets added.
If you don't like that, quit now.

[ZairaRavvu]

I refuse to begrudge them anything if they decide to have triple triad cards/packs in the cash shop. I mean...that's how you DO a collectible card game. I'd actually be more surprised if it WASN'T in the cash shop.
I am telling everyone this now: Triple Triad will have portions in the cash shop. It is unavoidable, it WILL happen if the game gets added.
If you don't like that, quit now.

if they put card booster packs in the cash shop. thats fine, even expected tbh. but if they start putting cash shop exclusive cards in the cash shop then that will pull the plug for me on this game. i've been wanting a multiplayer version of triple triad since playing it originally on ff8, and it has so much potential being in an mmo, especially with the fact the rules can change based on regions. if they make cash shop exclusive cards it will just ruin that experience, for collectors and competitive players alike.

[kyuven]

if they put card booster packs in the cash shop. thats fine, even expected tbh. but if they start putting cash shop exclusive cards in the cash shop then that will pull the plug for me on this game. i've been wanting a multiplayer version of triple triad since playing it originally on ff8, and it has so much potential being in an mmo, especially with the fact the rules can change based on regions. if they make cash shop exclusive cards it will just ruin that experience, for collectors and competitive players alike.

The only way they'd have "cash shop exclusive" cards is if they restricted the boosters to the cash shop, which doesn't make a lot of sense as there wouldn't be incentive to pick up the game in the first place and zero to keep playing. The only cash shop exclusive cards i could see would be foils, which are literally shiny versions of cards you can get normally.

[Yukiko]

The only way they'd have "cash shop exclusive" cards is if they restricted the boosters to the cash shop, which doesn't make a lot of sense as there wouldn't be incentive to pick up the game in the first place and zero to keep playing. The only cash shop exclusive cards i could see would be foils, which are literally shiny versions of cards you can get normally.

Copy and Paste from Blizzard - Hearthstone

[Giantbane]

I refuse to begrudge them anything if they decide to have triple triad cards/packs in the cash shop. I mean...that's how you DO a collectible card game. I'd actually be more surprised if it WASN'T in the cash shop.
I am telling everyone this now: Triple Triad will have portions in the cash shop. It is unavoidable, it WILL happen if the game gets added.
If you don't like that, quit now.

That's how you DO a collectible card game that exists on its own. Do you pay a monthly fee for hearthstone or magic or whatever? No, because you only pay for packs. This one exists as part of a larger MMO that already has a monthly fee. Adding triad cards/packs into the cash shop is starting to cross the line into p2w, something they "said" they were going to avoid.

The only cash shop exclusive cards i could see would be foils, which are literally shiny versions of cards you can get normally.

unless they just kept it to this

[Yukiko]

That's how you DO a collectible card game that exists on its own. Do you pay a monthly fee for hearthstone or magic or whatever? No, because you only pay for packs.

In FFXIV its just a "minigame"... not the big deal to compare with heathstone or magic the gathering...
If they stick to the original theme of Triple Triad we have to collect them through content (fights) and it will be possible to lose them in pvp card matches, so my conclusion is:
a) We will get a consumable cash shop item which prevent losing the card even when we lose the match, the winner takes the card, but we will not lose it (some protection)
b) Those who do not win against hard content can buy those cards from cash shop

But i share the same fear you all have and looking at history i am sure SE will mess up this time AGAIN...

[Rjain]

Thank you for making pretty much the exact same thread complaining about something 45 minutes after the other thread.

[Adrian74]

Wait, wait.... I have seen two threads similar like this and I'm like "WTF? Where?"

I have not seen anything about having to pay in the letter of the producer and the questions-answers... So... Where does SE says we obtain a second-tier dress, and stuff like that?...

Seven hells, all I just hope is they won't turn this into a Free to play (aka, Pay to Win) content.