Thread: It's sad old events never get to re-run because of Microtransactions.

While admittedly a lot of the old events were not the most exciting thing, a few of them were pretty fun. The original FFXI crossover with Shantoto was great, and it was a one time thing never to return. Sure you can buy the event items on the cash shop, but maybe they should at the very least consider some sort of cash shop item that grants you an item that unlocks the quest chain for you to do instead of ignoring the old content entirely.

Yes, but the only other option would be its one time and it would never be released again for new players over the cash shop if it didn't exist now.

Originally Posted by CCheshire

Yes, but the only other option would be its one time and it would never be released again for new players over the cash shop if it didn't exist now.

Why would that be the only other option? Other games re-run their old events.

Originally Posted by PaulusHamsteru

Why would that be the only other option? Other games re-run their old events.

FFXIV does re-run some events like ff15 and ff16 but after a while if it's too outdated they will always add it to the cash shop which ends up being the only place you can access it without that it would be gone for all new players. I ended up missing the FF13 event, but I bought the event sets much later on, which will be the fate of all old event items too.

Also, SE wouldn't suddenly have a change of heart and sell the old rewards for gil either from past events since that would p delusional.

As far as I know only 2 crossovers have been retired and their items put in the shop: the first FFXI and the FFXIII event. Personally I would rather they bring them back from time to time, like all the others. They have have so many exclusive shop items at this point, selling event items won't be missed.

Repeating holiday events or allow people to chose to replay them comes with certain complications when it comes to group content.

Considering that this is paid game with paid dlc and paid subscription, and already is poisoned with microtransactions to the point where it's worse than your average gacha, pulling previous event items out of mog station and letting players obtain them via in-game means once again would only be beneficial for the game.

Originally Posted by Ankhira

Exaggerating much? The Mog Station is frustrating with how much they put on their, yeah, especially with old event items getting locked behind it instead of rerunning in-game. But comparing it to gacha is a stretch. In FFXIV, you buy something and you’re guaranteed to get it. In gacha, you can drop €100 and still not hit pity, and sometimes the game balance itself pressures you to pull certain characters or weapons. That’s actual predatory design. Mog Station items are strictly cosmetic, incredibly annoying that all the good stuff goes on there, yes, but not remotely the same level of FOMO- predatory driven monetization that gacha thrives on.

Depending on which gacha. I played a lot of gacha where you can earn any item from gacha via in-game currency or other in-game means. So no, no exaggerations.

Talking about PC games of course, not average mobile copypasted slop.