How Cash Shop Dyes Should Be Handled

[MilesSaintboroguh]

There were already rare dyes. People whined that they could never get them. Now square will charge people for these new dyes so they don't have to roll the dice.

[BigPapaSmurf]

There were already rare dyes. People whined that they could never get them. Now square will charge people for these new dyes so they don't have to roll the dice.

They 'whined' only because they legitimately couldn't get one (metallic gold) because a bug prevented them from being obtainable.

Once they fixed it, the 'whining' stopped.

That argument doesn't hold.

It's like the whole "you people asked for this (Cash Shop)!!!" argument.

I never once read a thread asking SE to make a Cash Shop (even if there was one or a few, it wasn't a common or popular request by any means).

The "you asked for it" argument is also bad because while players might ask for a Cash Shop, by no means does it follow that many of those requesting it meant for things like Dyes to make it in there.

SE just up and implements things however they want, I don't think they've ever asked us once in the 2.x generation what we actually want or how we want something implemented.

I just spoke about this in one of the marriage threads.

They don't let the players inform their implementations practically whatsoever and it's getting old.

People have asked to be polled again by SE, their response was that 'we have the forums for that now and they work just fine!'... for which I beg to differ.

[Illya]

$1 for one pot of dye is straight up highway robbery. You need 5 pots to dye one set of your gear. It should be 5 pots for $1, with the option to buy an "infinite" pot that has unlimited uses for $5.

I change my glamours so often that paying $1 per pot forever would end up costing me hundreds of dollars.

[Shneibel]

I do prefer it to be 1$ for 5 or 10 pots, personally I don't think dyes should be that expensive

[MilesSaintboroguh]

They 'whined' only because they legitimately couldn't get one (metallic gold) because a bug prevented them from being obtainable.

Once they fixed it, the 'whining' stopped.

That argument doesn't hold.

No, gold is barely the issue. When it came to those dyes, I always hear "I got this and this except X"

[Fuma]

how cash shop dyes should be handled? they shouldnt be in the cash shop at all

/thread

[Niwashi]

Make all dye colors craftable, as the sort of single-use consumables we have now. Then they could add non-consumable infinite-pot-of-dye versions of each to the Store. Some people might pick up a pot or two for their favorite colors that way, whereas I certainly can't see paying extra money to dye just one item one time.

But no dye colors should be exclusive to the Store, or even be rare items to obtain in-game. (At most, maybe the black/white/metalic ones could be higher level recipes than the others with pricier ingredients, but they should still be easily craftable at least by high-level crafters.)

[Felis]

1) Make a way in game to earn Crysta (example: Trade 10,000 Gold Saucer tickets for 1 Crysta).

This could be not legal in some countries. Or the game have to be age 18+ because of real money gamble

[Sparktacus]

Completely agree putting dyes only obtainable behind cash shop is insulting and stupid.

[Nalien]

This could be not legal in some countries. Or the game have to be age 18+ because of real money gamble

Not sure I follow... How would that be gambling real currency? At worse your gambling Crysta, but even then you're not - you're earning it, I guess because you're earning it with a subscription? You cannot refund Crysta though, and Crysta is just another virtual currency (albeit one SE will let you buy to pay subscriptions with), so I don't see any issue. It would just be a sort of discount system for your subscription, not a gambling system.