Emotes in the cash shop..

[Samcaesar]

Snip

"If you disagree with this company, even if this company might be wrong gtfo!!!11!" I like this game, I don't approve of the direction SE is taking with the Cash shop, I have just as much of a right as you to complain. Are you going to go into the RMT threads and go "stop whining and go play another mmo if you don't agree with how SE handles RMT"? If so, please go do so, I want to know exactly how warm of a reception that goes.



Veteran rewards are the bonuses for playing the game, which anyone can get as long as they pay the sub (Hint you're paying for the game not for the ability to do 1 time seasonal events). It's not a "bonus" in any way shape or form, it's content that you can't even attempt to do

Welcome to video games, nothing is ever mandatory and anything is subjectively useless. The point is, players at one point in time got it for free, now there is no free way to obtain it. I'm sorry you seem mad, do you have a time machine so I can go back in time and tell myself about FFXIV? Because otherwise, if I want stuff that was at one point free, that at one point other players got for free, yes I have to pay extra for it. I didn't have the opportunity to get it for free unlike other players and now I've got to pay for it, this is not the way a cash shop should be used, especially not in a subscription MMO.

Plus, you guys don't even address people with alts, which this game allows 8 per server. Why are you punishing people with old accounts, ie those same people who "Earned it because they were subbed for long enough", because they didn't consider making an alt at the time?

There is literally nothing wrong with them adding old event items to the game for gil during that seasonal event.

[Kikoten]

It's funny that some people bring up "experience." So, if that's the case, I don't have to watch any videos before attempting a raid boss, because experience is what this game's about.

I'm going to go buy my $2 Bomb Dance now.

[Naunet]

It is absolutely not the point you're arguing. You're right. You would like the old items available in the vendor. Are you proposing the emotes be vendored as well or somehow incorporated into the quests again?

Either or, really. Could add the old emotes (like the bomb dance, or whatever else) onto the rewards of the new event quest(s). Or turn it into a consumable unlock that you can purchase from the event vendor/calamity salvager. Both would work.

[Seoulstar]

^This guy gets it.

Why make content when you can make more money by not doing so?

I'm pretty sure bringing back an old event isn't making new content.

[Synestra]

that kind of already happened for the cherry tree's they were tradeable and became mega expensive

If anything events needs more tradeable items, i still have 6 snowmans waiting for next x-mas and starting price will be 9.999.999gil $_$

[Bodicca]

I'm pretty sure bringing back an old event isn't making new content.

I'm pretty sure it's new content for anyone who hasn't done it.

That being said, why would it have to be an old event?

[IveraIvalice]

I always hated the cash shop. No one wanted it. Everyone was happy when they said they had no plans for a cash shop and then months later outta nowhere they added a cash shop

[Nestama]

I'm pretty sure it's new content for anyone who hasn't done it.

That being said, why would it have to be an old event?

Because the seasonal quests have their own story behind them. I don't remember the quest all too well, but I think the /bombdance had its own story (and bringing back that particular quest would exclude those who have already done it, if we use the Lightning, Shantotto and DQX events as an example. Players who already did the quest could still do the FATE's, they just couldn't do the quest).

Personally, I'm fine with SE doing it this way, as it means they have to make new gear (and a story) for every event, since it would cause issues if they made an item you can buy 'free to get' at a certain point in the year.

I always hated the cash shop. No one wanted it. Everyone was happy when they said they had no plans for a cash shop and then months later outta nowhere they added a cash shop

Like it or not, that money went to funding the European data-centre. It was a necessary "evil" and it's making a specific group of players happier.

[Lewtskie]

...!

It's always this sense of awkward adorableness reading people act out scenarios. It just makes them sound silly enough you just wanna give them a pat on the head and a cookie.

During the EU Fanfest Yoshi talked in about how what's made from the cash shop he puts back into the community, and one of the highlights was helping establish a new EU side server. Whether you choose to deny it and be cynical, thinking everyone is a fork-tongued devil, then that's on you.

XIV clearly isn't running with all the greatest strength. Do you honestly think that SE would so heartily invest in a game that had already once flopped so hard that public apologies had to be made? Considering their constant struggle with storage size despite the constant cries for improvements, they aren't given just all this money. Yoshi fought to keep this game going, but that doesn't mean he has 100% support. Something else has to be done to help support and improve the game.

[Samcaesar]

Snip

I dunno Nestama, as others have noted the events in 2.0 had the gear from 1.0 in them and they had different events.

If you really want to prevent SE from rehashing new gear and quests for the event, you gotta make sure they know it's not cool, no need to make the newer players have to pay actual money for cash shop stuff that older players got for free.

Is the old gear on the cash shop not the worst thing in the world? No, but just putting it in game for gil is much better.

Plus I'm not necessarily sure that money went to the European data-centre :P For all we know it went to a nice lunch for Yoshi-P and co.

Additional note, why is the immediate response for SE to put older items on the cash shop? It seems like they're trying to make a bit of a cash grab at the new players who'd want everything the older players already have. It'd be more appreciated if the cash shop items were nonsensical things, such as a resuable item that makes you turn into a spriggan like this years easter event or "special" versions of what we've already got, such as a "gilded Manacutter" to match the gilded Magitek armor. Just stuff that's not in the game already.