Token System/Subscription

[Vitaminsmore]

Similar to another famous MMO. These tokens will be purchased via Mog Station for a full months game time $14.99 or equal to of other countries currencies. Allowing people with real life financial issues to support their game time by playing the game or those having extra money to help support their in game currency issues.

These tokens will be sold or bought from the MB to add game time to a players subscription time using in game currency.
This would cut down on the active RMT system we are currently having issues with.

I'm sure this may have been brought up already but i do not see a Suggestions post on the forum so i figured this would be a good place to put it.

[Eidolon]

Wouldn't work sadly because of all the varying subscription prices

- legacy
- # of characters
- # of retainers

Not to say it isn't an awesome idea but unless these are Crysta scrolls it won't work.

[Vandril]

Not to say it isn't an awesome idea but unless these are Crysta scrolls it won't work.

As you implied, an item that gives crysta equal to a basic subscription fee would work perfectly. That could be done.

[Gilraen]

We already have something not unlike this in time cards. For it to work as an in-game item, though, would have required it's presence in the game from the beginning. Eve's model works because it was there from the beginning, it was one of the game's selling points to get players into the game. If they were to introduce that in the game now it would be so overpriced as to be out of reach of those that'd use it. Then there's the RMT. The reason RMT never took off on Eve is the game's other core mechanic, open world PvP. Because the markets are local and almost everything is an item if you wanted to sell your time tokens you had to 'physically' move it to market. But between the hub systems there's areas where pvp can go unpenalized making moving something like time tokens a high risk endeavor. There's no such risk here. I can buy an HQ piece of high demand armor, travel from Gridania to Limsa Lominsa and noone would be the wiser. RMT could easily start selling time tokens, real or scam.

[Slappah]

No. Absolutely not.

No. Just no. No.


No.

No, seriously, no.

[Azazua_azura]

this has been suggested 21 times since the launch of 2.1.

i wouldn't mind it actually. would help me out and let me b/f help pay for my account on days i get my mom late or my card is declined,

like now... -_-;; More options to pay for an account are welcome in my book.

[Slappah]

Wouldn't work sadly because of all the varying subscription prices

- legacy
- # of characters
- # of retainers

Not to say it isn't an awesome idea but unless these are Crysta scrolls it won't work.

An awesome idea? You MUST be joking.

You think having players be able to play the game without PAYING FOR A SUBSCRIPTION is an AWESOME IDEA?!

What even is this...come on people.

This is an absolutely terrible idea. It would effectively make the game a "pay for one month sub then never pay again"

[Risvertasashi]

You think having players be able to play the game without PAYING FOR A SUBSCRIPTION is an AWESOME IDEA?!

Someone always pays. Every subscription, someone paid the $$$ for it. You don't generate tokens out of thin air (or gil, as it were).

[Slappah]

Someone always pays. Every subscription, someone paid the $$$ for it. You don't generate tokens out of thin air (or gil, as it were).

I understand that, but I strongly disagree with the fact that the people who have tons and tons of gil will be playing the game for months and months and even years without paying a single cent for the game. I simply don't like that. This is a sub based mmo and you should have to pay that sub fee to play, that's how I feel about this.

[KeluBehemoth]

Just gonna put this out there. Runescape does this and it's cheaper to buy gold and spend it on your membership than it is to actually buy the membership.

No support