Cash Shop: Stifling development.

[Adrian74]

With all respect, but I'm going to speak a little about your worries with the direction the cash shop is getting and so....

I know here a lot of people, (surprisingly) thinks this all is normal and we players should empty our wallets, but, uh, okay...

I just noticed something important aside the P2W(OR however you want to call the fact people can obtain advantages in-game thanks to their real money) and is the change of... Hm... Let's say, their way to develop?:

- Before we had it so crafters were useful only for vanity stuff. They were the ones in previous patches that took everything that was needed for making certain recipes etc and craft-sell the vanity stuff... From now on, since cash shop came, that function of the crafters have been almost vanquished, now vanity stuff is no more concerning crafting classes, at least not at all, now cash shop is...

So... What decided SE to do now that crafters were loosing their main function? Give them back more vanity stuff and remove it from cash shop? No, give them some utility in the new relic quest, because that was the only way to give crafters utility without damaging the integrity of the cash shop....

(Note, important note: This is only the point of view of a poor noob, only my perception, I'm not saying it is exactly like that. The lack of answers for developers is what make me do my own points of view until we obtain some official responses regarding this.)

[Nel_Celestine]

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umm... this was a QoL patch, not a major update. 2.40 was the major update and there was a lot of vanity items added for crafters to make and not a single one of them was removed nor were any vanity armours placed on the Mog Station.

Edit- Slightly different and dyable wedding dress / suit as part of the bonuses for paying extra for wedding. the Normal dress is still there only difference is dyable and a small amount of frills

[Ashkendor]

- Before we had it so crafters were useful only for vanity stuff. They were the ones in previous patches that took everything that was needed for making certain recipes etc and craft-sell the vanity stuff... From now on, since cash shop came, that function of the crafters have been almost vanquished, now vanity stuff is no more concerning crafting classes, at least not at all, now cash shop is...

So... What decided SE to do now that crafters were loosing their main function? Give them back more vanity stuff and remove it from cash shop? No, give them some utility in the new relic quest, because that was the only way to give crafters utility without damaging the integrity of the cash shop....

Uh... what? So because 3 dyes and some minions went into the cash shop, crafters are all of a sudden useless? I don't follow. Crafters certainly make a lot more than just vanity items, in any case. Good luck getting a relic without crafters. A lot of the higher level stuff that was just introduced is actually really good when it's overmelded as well. I don't see how anyone can possibly say that "the function of the crafters have almost been vanquished".