Concerned about most recent 'Optional Items' update.

[Dikai]

Hey there everyone, first of all merry xmas,

After logging in today I noticed something that kind of rubbed me in the wrong way.
Now first of all let met me tell you that I am by no means fully against an optional items option, and I love this game to bits.

What does bother me though is that what was added was 20 hats that are basically a full year old, and cost 1/5th of a monthly sub EACH. Of course you can argue that these items are completely optional and you do not HAVE to have them, but after being able to buy them for 10 gil at a vendor last year during the event,having to pay 2.10 euros EACH just sounds like an extremely cheap cash in for a free-to-play model mmo.

Now don't get me wrong, I already own all these items, and Id gladly pay for something made specially for the optional store, like one of the minions. But I just feel like this is squeezing out rehashed stuff in an overly lazy way.

I am really interested in your opinion. Please keep your responds serious.

[FallenHero]

These are items that are no longer obtainable and 99% of the population doesnt care about at all. For that 1% that wants to collect everything, the option is there.

It doesnt really bother me at all as long as they dont start putting really nice things on there that arent obtainable in game. That would be too much double dipping for me.

Just look at SWTOR: you have to pay a sub to have a decent experience and all of the endgame gear looks like trash while the cash shop vanity gear looks 100 times better, their focus in development is on the cash shop...

As long as it doesnt turn into any bs like that Im fine with minor things like minions and missed seasonal items.

[Dikai]

I agree with you, its nice to see older event items be available to people, but having 10 gil items up there for over 2 euros/3 dollars each...for just a hat? I'd say price them between 0.50 and 1.00 and id say alright. Not to mention that 3 of the items currently in the optional item shop are TRADEABLE if someone that did do the event gets them off their calamity salvage npc for 850 gil.

[Doctor]

To be frank, I kind of feel the same Dikai. I'm not really happy with the addition of old content to the cash shop. It simply destroys its novelty.

[TheCurls]

The way I see it is I'd rather they put these things in the cash shop so we get new items next year and the year after for these events. I don't want people to pressure them to "omg put the Starlight Barding back in as a quest reward for people who weren't playing when it was added!".

It is funny, though. SE can't win if they put new, unseen in game things in the cash shop because people gripe. And they can't put old things in the cash shop. Even old things that nobody wants to buy anyway.

[Yshnal]

The way I see it is I'd rather they put these things in the cash shop so we get new items next year and the year after for these events. I don't want people to pressure them to "omg put the Starlight Barding back in as a quest reward for people who weren't playing when it was added!".

It is funny, though. SE can't win if they put new, unseen in game things in the cash shop because people gripe. And they can't put old things in the cash shop. Even old things that nobody wants to buy anyway.

They can win if if they put neither, get rid of the cash shop, and do what they did before and let everyone buy the items from past years from an in-game vendor during the events. Everyone will be happy, guaranteed.

[Dikai]

Since there is already a year to wait for an event, why not expand on the idea of certain events, making them bigger over the year.

[Jynx]

Since there is already a year to wait for an event, why not expand on the idea of certain events, making them bigger over the year.

Because that would just make sense to slowly expand events and make them give a giant variaty of seasonal items. There isn't any money in that! Development is so expensive these days guys were lucky they didn't go bankrupt yet, the subscriptions are hardly enough to keep the hamsters running the servers alive.

[Stihllodeing]

They can win if if they put neither, get rid of the cash shop, and do what they did before and let everyone buy the items from past years from an in-game vendor during the events. Everyone will be happy, guaranteed.

Ill take that bet.

[Black91CRX]

They can win if if they put neither, get rid of the cash shop, and do what they did before and let everyone buy the items from past years from an in-game vendor during the events. Everyone will be happy, guaranteed.

I remember skipping events for last Christmas/Easter. Those Items weren't available to me at the vendors you speak of. Only the items associated with events I had actually participated in were available for purchase.