How Cash Shop Dyes Should Be Handled

[Lukha]

$1 for a single pot of dye is ridiculous; the only way I'd be okay with paying for dyes is if it were a non-consumable item. $5 for a pot of dye I could use as much as I want seems reasonable to me?

As much as I like the new green dye, if I can't get it in-game, I'll just ignore it like all the other cash shop items.

[Nalien]

1) Make a way in game to earn Crysta (example: Trade 10,000 Gold Saucer tickets for 1 Crysta).
2) Make cash shop items purchasable with Crysta if they aren't already (Sleipnir, for example, would cost 1,500 Crysta, unless my conversion is off).
3) ???
4) Profit.

Currently 1$ for a pot of Dye? That's 100 Crysta. Go play the f*ck out of Gold Saucer or just mosey up the 1$ up front. I'd be more than happy with the cash shop if they gave me the option to earn the stuff in game by burning my retinas out to Triple Triad or Chocobo Racing. They could add whatever to it and I'd eat it up if it gives me a reason to play a snowboarding minigame until I'm senile.

Please ignore the fact that tying it to Crysta is a silly way to do things. It means you can win 50,000,000 Triple Triad games and get enough Crysta for a free 30 days. Awesome.

[Ecks007]

I agree with the OP. Dyes and anything consumable should be available to be obtained within the game itself.

I can't play the game and obtain these dyes, even if it takes me a week just to get one I still don't even have that option. No.. I have to fork over a dollar every single time I want to use one of these dyes on something.

Now that they have done this, there is absolutely nothing from stopping them from introducing every new dye via Cash Shop.

What's that, you really wanted this new dye and are so glad we finally added it to the dye system? Well good luck getting it by actually PLAYING our game. Ha ha! No! Give us more money and we'll let you have some. Hope you plan on keeping that look for a while.

[Niwashi]

I have no real problem with a cash shop as a shortcut for people who want to get stuff faster than they can in-game. I have no problem with it offering event gear to people who missed the corresponding event. But when we're paying a subscription, we should be entitled to at least have a chance at getting everything in-game. SE could still use the shop to make a little extra from people who don't choose to do so. So I'm not entirely against a cash shop, but I'm definitely against any cash shop exclusives. (That they make a consumable exclusive is just making it even worse.)

[Ecks007]

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Hmm. I don't really mind past event items being in the shop. They were obtainable in the game, if you took part in the event while the event was active. Once the event ended, technically those items should never again be available until the next time that event occurs, if at all.

Every MMORPG I have ever played, if you missed an event then you missed out on that event gear as they were typically 1 time only items. I prefer that personally, as it gives those items a bit more flair or importance and leaves players that don't have them wondering where they came from.

The dyes on the other hand, are not available to be obtained in the game at all. These weren't one time only event dyes. They are normal dyes, and there is no way to get them at all by playing the game with your subscription. They have not ever been able to be obtained by some method within the game itself. You much purchase them outside of the game to obtain them for use within the game and this is the only way to get these dyes. This is wrong.

[Giantbane]

There are people that read more than they post and you sir, are an easy read.

There are some people that post to try to sound deep without adding anything to the conversation. You sir, are going on the ignore list.

[Mardel]

To actually be on topic; I feel that the dyes should be 5 for $1. I mean... like you really think someone is going to dye one and only 1 item and not their whole outfit?

The metallics aren't always useful anyways because some armor keeps the metallic color. Thank heavens for us that complained about that early on or this would be the only way ARMOR (like pld) would look metallic...

[Parodine]

To actually be on topic; I feel that the dyes should be 5 for $1. I mean... like you really think someone is going to dye one and only 1 item and not their whole outfit?

The metallics aren't always useful anyways because some armor keeps the metallic color. Thank heavens for us that complained about that early on or this would be the only way ARMOR (like pld) would look metallic...

I agree. It's especially going to be sad when you eventually want to change the dye color to switch things up vanity-wise, but suddenly you become reluctant because you had to drop $5 on the dye in the first place. I'm sure that's chump-change to a lot of people, but I try to be smart with my money. It's hard to justify $1 for 1 consumable pot of dye.

[BigPapaSmurf]

I think a one-time $5 vendor-unlock would suffice too.

Still though, should be obtainable in game somehow.

Cash Shop should be for the impatient for consumables of such a kind.

[BigPapaSmurf]

Grekumah, any plans to change this?