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Phandaal!! Wildstar's first whale!! Gratz buddy!!


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I can get behind that...


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I disagree that it is 'simple' and more that it would be unprofitable. I don't want the game strong arming people into subscriptions like SWTOR (and I love that game). I would like to see them take the idea that anything you purchase in the shop can be sold on the AH though...extending the ideology that allows CREDD to exist. I will meet you halfway and say I think subscriptions should come with a currency stipend, like many other F2P mmos do, but I don't think you should have access to everything for gold. I know it's hard to feel this way now, but people who want to/do spend money on their cash shop will be just as important as people paying subs now and later. You shouldn't make your non sub players feel like 2nd class citizens because they didn't spend money 'the right way'. It also discourages whales from existing, which are needed to help fund the game. And let's be clear, whale isn't a negative term to me. If someone has money to spend and wants to, I fully support that desire and privilege. Everyone has a role and everyone is equally important. Subscriptions already receive perks which is the entire point of them. If you want access to the cash shop too, then stop paying a sub and just pay money on the shop. You earn loyalty either way. Similarly, you can't say you have a right to PvP gear because you did some quests today. There are different avenues of rewards and different motivators for those rewards. It's no different. Uggh, I'm starting to rant too much on here but I just wanna talk about this game!


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WTS Omnibits 10:1


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The lion's share of my motivation for playing the game is "cosmetic hoohah".


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{| style="width: 100%;" I don't have a dream cash shop. I have a few nightmare ones. Thankfully Western markets punish the P2W nightmare pretty harshly. Unfortunately the gamble box one is still tolerated. Just say NO to Gamble Boxes.

Threw this post a "like" even though I doubt it'll happen. At first I was thinking "not a snowball's chance in er... Malgrave". Cash shops allow people to pay more than the monthly sub fee. So my overly quick interpretation of your idea was why would anybody pay real cash for stuff if they could get it for the monthly sub? I totally glossed over the "convert to gold" part. That could potentially work because it causes people to make the IG currency vs. RL currency decision. Unfortunately to drive people to spend RL currency the pricing would need to start between 50 and 100 plat. And all that would do would be to stick a price ceiling on AH pricing. I suspect what we'll get is stipend of cash-shop currency that will cover one or two shinies and that they'll allow cash shop items to be sold on the AH.

Most of what Kelimbror says is correct. It's just how a cash shop model works. Hopefully CRB allows AH sales that way anybody who doesn't want any part of the cash shop can just spend IG currency for it. Some of the more consistent whales SW:ToR had would flip cash shop items for credits.


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I believe you mean CUbacon.


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So much this!


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I logged in specifically to like this.


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You are wrong. Paying $15 a month is effectively a down payment on the $100 item because it takes time to accumulate the plat required to purchase it... Effectively a long term goal of about 6 months. You can still buy it immediately for $$. The subscription is layaway in this case. You aren't charged twice when using layaway.


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Yes it does, so long as they are able to actually accumulate the amount of plat required to buy all that stuff, just like f2p people have to actually have the required amount of money. It in no way guarantees that every signature player would get everything available, it only guarantees the option to pay with plat.


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No, but I'm not sure why you're asking because the more important question is: does being a member of Amazon Prime give you the right to have everything there is on Amazon made available to you without spending any more cash than your membership fee? And the answer is clearly "no", as phandaal pointed out..


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That feature is awful and a pain. Inviting people to a guild or circle, and then having to wait for them to figure out how to disable it and then resend the invite. . . yuck. You may have found this acceptable, but I don't. It was a reasonable workaround, but the new solution is much better.


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