New ways to monetize the game through customization.

[Rhea_]

Would you be ok if they added new animations set and sound for different job in the mog station ? :3

Why? 10chars

[Raoabolic]

With all this talk about selling animations in mogstaion, it reminds me of another tale, lol.

[LittleImp]

Why? 10chars

They were probably inspired to make this post after seeing some of the paid mods floating around. There's a DMC Dante themed animation replacer for DRK that someone is selling for $20+ that has become fairly popular. It's sold almost 1500 times apparently.

[Liam_Harper]

Where do we draw the line where it becomes a F2P game with a mandatory subscription?

Sure, some people would pay it. But the current game design just doesn't have the same addictive gamble appeal as the big F2P money milking games do and a subscription on top would kill it. If SE went too far down that road, they'd simply cut the subscription and go all in on F2P milking because it would lure in more players than a monetized subscription game. But it would involve redesigning the game towards a different audience. It's not a good path to go down.

[Dzian]

As others said, we need less microtransactions, not more.
I like how generally people who only play p2p games say "you gotta pay a sub but then you get everything with it". But you gotta pay box price, plus every single expansion costs as much, then there's the cash shop, microtransactions like name change, and all that on top of subscription. Hardly all included, nowadays.
And of course they also make a lot of money from physical merchandise, which they always advertise in live letters.

The difference being that when you buy an expansion you pay £30 or whatever it is. And you get a shed load of actual content and stuff with it..

As opposed to paying £30 and getting just a mount or some bs...

That's why noone cared about old school dlcs and microtransactions because you got a ton for your money. £20 got you 2 whole new stories in gta4 for example and all the associated stuff that came with..

£15 in the early assassins creed games got you entire extra chapters or a whole new story in some cases.. actual real content and good amounts of it..

Today. What does £20 get you on the mog station in terms of actual real content.or new gameplay.... a couple of emotes or a mount that should be included in the game anyway. Even if tied to achievement rewards or something. Give players something to do or work towards..especially when it's so common to hear players say there bored and there nothing to do because 99.999% of the games content is obsolete.

[Syln]

They were probably inspired to make this post after seeing some of the paid mods floating around. There's a DMC Dante themed animation replacer for DRK that someone is selling for $20+ that has become fairly popular. It's sold almost 1500 times apparently.

You nailed it ! I was looking for something to change the warrior sfx (which i find absolutly horrible) in a first place and came across that mod on youtube.

[Deveryn]

You nailed it ! I was looking for something to change the warrior sfx (which i find absolutly horrible) in a first place and came across that mod on youtube.

This is definitely the wrong place to ask for such things. Try that creator or whatever community they're involved with.

[Catwho]

And yet you're here, paying your subscription no matter what, too.

To OP, nah. They could add more of those to Gold Saucer though, like the Sheathe/Draw emotes.

I agree. Adding things to Gold Saucer is cool. hang around long enough or grind out MGP long enough and you can afford anything there.

Adding even more cash shop customization is unfair. Frankly, I wasn't comfortable with them adding emotes at all, aside from the ones that came from previous events.

And I still bought Drink Tea anyway, grumbling the entire time.

[SturmChurro]

I agree. Adding things to Gold Saucer is cool. hang around long enough or grind out MGP long enough and you can afford anything there.

Adding even more cash shop customization is unfair. Frankly, I wasn't comfortable with them adding emotes at all, aside from the ones that came from previous events.

And I still bought Drink Tea anyway, grumbling the entire time.

While I do spend a lot of time anymore there AFK, or doing the occasional gold saucer attraction, if they are going to add things to it, they need to actually make your stay there more enjoyable.

I'd like to see more things added as rewards across content in general. Such as for achievements, healers could each use their own mount set like tanks, etc. Customization options such as animations, I would rather see added in a free update to the game.

[IkaraGreydancer]

The difference being that when you buy an expansion you pay £30 or whatever it is. And you get a shed load of actual content and stuff with it..

As opposed to paying £30 and getting just a mount or some bs...

That's why noone cared about old school dlcs and microtransactions because you got a ton for your money. £20 got you 2 whole new stories in gta4 for example and all the associated stuff that came with..

£15 in the early assassins creed games got you entire extra chapters or a whole new story in some cases.. actual real content and good amounts of it..

Today. What does £20 get you on the mog station in terms of actual real content.or new gameplay.... a couple of emotes or a mount that should be included in the game anyway. Even if tied to achievement rewards or something. Give players something to do or work towards..especially when it's so common to hear players say there bored and there nothing to do because 99.999% of the games content is obsolete.

Things is, it's common to hear players say there's nothing to do while there's plenty to do, just nothing that interests them. Content being obsolete is a viewpoint that will vary from player to player. Some folks need rewards to make it worth doing, others just enjoy playing for the fun of it.

Folks may hate it but I'd be willing to bet most players don't have most pvp achievements done. That there is something to do, yet many wont