Oh the smartypants wants to read, fine.
You know why my post is not a gigantic text explaining why the trading restrictions are bad for the game? Because I already talked about these restrictions a million times before years ago in this same forum. You should know because technically you were here. Dismissing a post by the way it’s worded rather than by the content and subject behind the complaint IS lazy.
And that’s exactly what you did. In other words. If you didn’t had anything useful or if you had any disagreements you could have said it without the “trolly woobly imma be funny diddly doo” attitude.
To the matter of properly wording my problem concerning the trading restrictions at hand so that people like @Remiri here can read it and understand it.
Trade restrictions are an imposed benefit instead of an actual benefit to the player. They do not represent the reason why people buy Tokens in general although they are a part of the reason.
They are a part of the reason because they were imposed by IMC to work that way to try and force the player’s hand towards purchasing the Token.
This is an ill intended marketing tactic as it’ll subtract from the Player’s experience if said player doesn’t have a Token so that instead of buying the Token to expand his player experience they’ll buy the Token to be able to complete a mediocre player experience.
The same business model is being applied to costumes for instance. Back in the day we were able to purchase the costume we wanted directly through the shop. There were seasonal costumes that would be sold for a period of time. But if you payed for a costume you would get a costume!
After a while they changed it to the Goddess Blessed cube and removed almost 90% of the costumes available in the cash shop. I was one of the people that used to purchase stuff when it was on the store and stopped when it became a gamble.
Allowing them to exploit every crank and cranny of this game for pennies is what ruins it for people. Instead of working hard towards making the game enjoyable without cash so that people expand or buy cash because they love the game and want to invest on it, all they do is add more palliative solutions to keep their heads out of the water to be able to collect a bit more money.
The biggest issue with trading restrictions is the fact that when a person buys a token. It’s not guaranteed that he or she will be able to fully enjoy said trade advantages because their system requires both parties to have an active Token.
This is something that might work in theory but not in the actual game’s live environment.
The majority of the players in the game are Free to Players. This ruins both the first impressions of a new player that can’t trade stuff around with his friends because he is immediately bombarded by the necessity of keeping track of the items you’ll make untradable.
Or maybe this player invited someone else to join the game and he wants to lend some equipment to said player. Welp he can’t cause it’ll become untradable.
In conclusion this is one of the factors that contributes towards the inability of the game to retain it’s new players.
I can guarantee that if they revealed their retention/acquisition metrics we would laugh.
The player that wants to enjoy the game before investing significant amounts of money in it is constantly reminded that if you don’t invest money you are playing a half of a half-game.
The Token has a lot of appeal without the trading stuff.
Now you want more ways of making money without actually being dickheads about it?
- Sell character slot expansions and allow players to sell those on the market as it used to be done in Granado Espada. o7
- Add cosmetics and costumes and stuff back to the store and do seasonal sales renewing the catalog every now and then, thus creating the sense of exclusiveness for people that purchased the items when they were in the store, all tradable in the market, from Hairstyles to lenses and costumes.
- Leave the gacha with the other items like the abrasives and headgears maybe.
That’s a start imo.
Have fun. Again. WHY AM I STILL HERE?! >_>
