RIP Minion Collectors :(

[Talraen]

Asking SE to reconsider content so you can satisfy your mental condition of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is just silly. You, and your obsessiveness with pointless, fluff content, is what hurts this game. If you like minions thats fine, but demanding developers alter content because of a mental problem you have is just ridiculous. What is the point in owning every minion anyways? What does it get you? They do nothing but follow you around. What has this world come to.

So if you don't care about content, that means anyone who does has a mental disorder?

That incredibly offensive comment aside, consider that SE adds minions to cash purchases as an incentive. They didn't give people a Rikku minion for buying their live stream because they just thought it would be fun. They've been openly catering to a certain crowd, and this goes directly against that. It seems perfectly reasonable for people to be upset.

[Welsper59]

So if you don't care about content, that means anyone who does has a mental disorder?

That incredibly offensive comment aside, consider that SE adds minions to cash purchases as an incentive. They didn't give people a Rikku minion for buying their live stream because they just thought it would be fun. They've been openly catering to a certain crowd, and this goes directly against that. It seems perfectly reasonable for people to be upset.

They've also done the same in the past about exclusivity in non-cash shop means. 1.0 rewards, for example, are not available to the grand majority of players now. This is not just referring to the mounts, but also to the CE and XI sub rewards too. The fact we could also keep 1.0 items/equips is part of that as well.

It is actually a question of mental disorder for some. Obsession and denial is very real with today's youth (and even adults). Most people are okay, and while the person you quoted is labeling a bit too broadly, I'd argue it is applicable to some in this game. The mere fact that people today can't accept the idea that exclusive rewards can exist within game content, is evidence enough that there is a borderline case of obsession coming into play (most likely not clinical levels though).

It's reasonable to be upset, especially since we get upset about the dumbest things in general both in games and IRL, but that doesn't excuse the ignorance or idiocy of the matter.

[Talraen]

While I am personally of the belief that nothing should ever be exclusive or limited, that's clearly not how this game was designed, and that's fine. (And I say that as a 1.0 player with a whole bunch of stuff most of the population can currently never get.) But let's not pretend it's some weird thing to want to get 100% completion in a game. It's so ubiquitous, plenty of games actually have a % meter, and half of the premise of Undertale is about how players feel obligated to do everything in a game.

And I do find it disingenuous that SE includes minions in expensive purchases and then turns around and does this. Well, either that, or foolish - I agree with some early posters that I think the number of people buying plushies and live streams for minions is going to drop precipitously as a result.