Lightning Strikes?

[DefendPopPunk]

The content is already there so I don't see any reason why they can't just make it a yearly thing if they wanted to. That being said though, if you unsub for whatever reason and miss it, you'd have to wait a year to do it (so why not put it in the cash shop and be done with it). Maybe they'll do both. Or maybe they'll just be nice and make it a gold saucer reward to exchange for GP.

[Niwashi]

Oh yeah, I'm well aware of that. By reasonable, I was thinking of no more than a few dollars. Besides XIV, which I only started playing recently, and Phantasy Star Universe back in the day, I really didn't play many pay to play games, so I'm definitely aware on how a cash shop really works.

I'd be willing to pay 3-5 dollars for the set, just costs me the chance to miss out on a good burger or something that week

That's because you're ignoring the difference between reasonable and cheap. Taking something that should be ten cents and charging five dollars for it is a five thousand percent markup. If that five dollar burger you compared it to were suddenly offered for two hundred and fifty dollars instead, that would be the equivalent of what you're calling "reasonable" when it's offered by a game company. Too many people ignore whether things are ridiculously overpriced or not so long as the price still falls into a range they can afford.

If anything, a 3-5 dollar price tag would be pretty cheap compared to what some other games out there charge for cosmetic items.

That's because most games that have cash shops are F2P. The way F2P games work is to use purchases of minor little cosmetic items to fund the development of all the major game systems which are given away for free to entice people into playing. You should assume that 99.9% of the money you pay for a cosmetic item in such games has nothing to do with the item you're ostensibly buying, but is simply the way that you pay for the whole game that you're playing.

In this case, that logic doesn't apply, because we're already paying for the game directly. The software purchases and subscription fees are paying for the game, and yet now, the cash shop is asking people to pay for the entire game all over again, by using the sort of F2P markups that are used to do just that.

[Korilynn]

That's because you're ignoring the difference between reasonable and cheap. Taking something that should be ten cents and charging five dollars for it is a five thousand percent markup. If that five dollar burger you compared it to were suddenly offered for two hundred and fifty dollars instead, that would be the equivalent of what you're calling "reasonable" when it's offered by a game company. Too many people ignore whether things are ridiculously overpriced or not so long as the price still falls into a range they can afford.

Agree with you there!

I'm sure they try to maximize cost with how many will buy it for the most profit, but when it's 5 dollars an item, and figure 10,000 people will buy it, it seems over prices for a piece of code that likely didn't cost 50,000 to make.

[Zysets]

In this case, that logic doesn't apply, because we're already paying for the game directly. The software purchases and subscription fees are paying for the game, and yet now, the cash shop is asking people to pay for the entire game all over again.

But they're not asking you to pay for these items, and buying them won't inhibit your ability to enjoy or play the game in anyway. I see no problem in event items that are unavailable anymore being put up on mogstation. You still get the opportunity to get these items during the events, but if you so happen to miss the event for whatever reason, and actually wanted any of the items, you have that as an option. I believe they were already doing that with the holiday items, I saw last year's items available on mogstation during the 2014 holiday event. Didn't care for those items, so I didn't buy. And this can help people get any items they may have wanted that wouldn't be available anymore otherwise. Completely optional, I see no loss.

[HeroSamson]

I don't want lightning strikes back, I wanna see something new done.

Every time it returns its the same event, now if they changed a few things and added a second story to it and updates some stuff you get and not the same reason she was summoned to the world I would want to see it again.
I rather see something new though not same stuff over and over.

Once or twice is good but once you keep going its the same junk they did in FFXI +1 +2 Latent effect. this one gives you cookies, this one gives you raises, this one does nothing, this ones a different color and allows you to scoop better.
Though the events in FFXI never changed, I don't want same events over and over.

Nothing against anyone else but that's my opinion.