Prices are To hight (in relative terms)

[Jesden]

whats the highest R, do we know?

[CheshirePuss]

i did take the Jumbo Jackpot into consideration, 1 person is allegeable to win the grand prize each week, which is fine and dandy, they can get everything there hearts wishes, but the prizes for 2nd 3rd ect, do not scratch close to make these one million items even plausible.

Isn't that similar to how the actual lottery works? Weekly schpeel aside I mean.

[Auloriel]

I think a lot of folks are sore about the price of Fenrir because we were shown the picture of the mount without anything to damper our excitement. Had they said, "Fenrir will be really hard to earn, and only a few will likely ever acquire him", the hype would not have been as..... it would have been toned down.

Instead, we get a picture of him with no indication that acquisition will be different than any previous mounts, leaving our hype and enthusiasm to run wild.

But, to be entirely honest I am not too upset by Fenrir. I do hope that the first several winners of the jumbo cacpot are cool people and not dicks, or they will only enflame the world they are on by constant bragging and generally being a sore winner.

[mbncd]

[Snip]
TL: DR
Currently if you are FLAWLESS with triple triad and do not take ANY brakes, you will have your fenrir mount in 291 days if you try to include lets say 6 hours sleep per day that almost doubles to 2 years.

please re think the prices of your high reward items.


a good quote:
{i was pointed out i did a mis calculation on my math, this quote is still however good.}

You forgot to forget your TL: DR math but I just wanted to point out that by correcting your math you already got more than you wanted o.o

You wanted it to take half the time you expected it to, when in fact it'll take a tenth of the time. Be happy ^_^

[juntaru]

The best solution would be for SE to cut on fenrir cost AND add a lot more things to get. 2 mounts isn't a lot. Same for the glamour stuff. 2 stuffs for girls, one for boys.

That's why everything is so expensive. There is not a lot of stuff to win so, to make it hard to get everything, they just addeds 0s behind...

SE should add more mounts and stuffs. Even stuff acquired somewhere else ! I wouldn't mind seeing some primal-ponnies in the casino... or stuff only obtainable through pure rng (blue bird, opo-opo minions, fat cat...). This way poeple whho already have them won't mind and will focus on more exclusive stuff, while others might try to get them through this new method, a little less rng-based.

[Linadae]

I think a lot of folks are sore about the price of Fenrir because we were shown the picture of the mount without anything to damper our excitement. Had they said, "Fenrir will be really hard to earn, and only a few will likely ever acquire him", the hype would not have been as..... it would have been toned down.

Instead, we get a picture of him with no indication that acquisition will be different than any previous mounts, leaving our hype and enthusiasm to run wild.

But, to be entirely honest I am not too upset by Fenrir. I do hope that the first several winners of the jumbo cacpot are cool people and not dicks, or they will only enflame the world they are on by constant bragging and generally being a sore winner.

You'd think they'd have learned from the initial (and secondary) housing price fiasco that sticker shock causes nothing but havoc, anger, and resentment.

[Asheilin]

When I saw those prices... I died a little. Unless I win the Cacpot I'll likely never see the only mount I've care about after learning of its excistance. I only have 2-4 hours a day I can play. Including gearing up and leveling classes, I get maybe an hour to TT and after talking to people and learning MGP is required for racing I likely wont do it until I get my mount. That number is SO UNREALISTIC, its not like they won't add more things each patch to strive for. Inc the Gamblers' set

[Niwashi]

i did take the Jumbo Jackpot into consideration, 1 person is allegeable to win the grand prize each week

Where did you hear that? Because in-game it just says that what you win is a matter of how many of the digits you match. There are even a couple NPCs nearby talking about it. One says something to the effect of "So, the odds of winning the grand prize are approximately 10,000 to 1, right?" and his companion answers "If by 'approximately' you mean 'exactly' then yes."

Your chances of winning the grand prize (or any of the other prizes for that matter) aren't impacted by whether anyone else has those same numbers or not. It's just a matter of how many of your numbers match the chosen ones. The only impact other players have on your results is whether there are enough tickets sold to unlock all the various bonuses that increase the payouts for each prize.

Speaking of those bonuses, does anyone know whether they're already accounted for in the listed payout amounts? Or are they added on top of that? (If the bonuses are in addition to the listed payouts, then even the "consolation" prize for no matches is enough to pay for the price of the ticket.)

[Niwashi]

whats the highest R, do we know?

Well, there's an achievement for ranking your racing chocobo up to rank 285. If the ranks can go that high, the races presumably do as well. And while it's not exactly stated (at least anywhere I can find) that that's the rank cap, it would be an odd place to put the achievement if it isn't the cap. So I'm guessing R-285 (or a named equivalent) is going to be the top one.

[DracotheDragon]

You forgot to forget your TL: DR math but I just wanted to point out that by correcting your math you already got more than you wanted o.o

You wanted it to take half the time you expected it to, when in fact it'll take a tenth of the time. Be happy ^_^

ohh silly me, i have fixed it now, and i guess that is the silver lining in this XD

snip

the way it is worded in the introduction of the jumbo cackpot, makes it sound as if once the numbers are announced the first one with a full matching numbers win the jackpot while those who are later to it will only get a smaller (i.e they get a flatter or smaller payout ), it sounds as if only 1 person is allegeable to win the jumbo cacpot (which is bonus and all). this is how i took it into consideration, if it goes with the FFXI version where the prize is split between each player then this would make the one million we have seen a much smaller payout then what it is.