146976-new-event-new-cs-items

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New Event, new CS items...
 
As the title already says a new event and new Cash Shop items. Pls Carbine give us an additional chance, alongside the omnibits to farm these time-limited CS items during events. I would appreciate it to add these items to the current event vendor. For example you can buy these cs items from vendors for special event currency - event warpig for a huge amount of shades eve currency.
An another idea could be to sell these items for event currency and a small amount of omnibits. For the recent prestige event - cashshop mounts against these two currencies, prestige and omnibits.
Its a bit frustating as subscription player to pay twice -.- . I love this game and want to support you with my sub.
Hope the devs will find a solution for us players and for them. If the community have better ideas or think this suggestions are bad pls write it down.
Thanks in advance!
 
Greetz
 	
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A couple of notes:
 
I agree that there should be a way to pay for these first few Event mounts besides NCoins or Omnibits, because-- as other people have pointed out time and time again-- the Omnibit price for these are a farce. It would have been impossible for someone to even have the amount of Omnibits to purchase the War Pig mount since F2P's release, so it was literally only available by NCoins. At least, if Carbine is trying to convince us that Omnibits are actually an alternative to NCoins (which is supposed to be a big selling point for their F2P model).
 
However.. once a certain amount of time passes and we're past the "it would be impossible to buy these items with Omnibits at this point" threshold, I don't think every event item will need to be available for some sort of event currency. It's alright for them to offer a few items in the Cash Shop, every event, that are strictly NCoin or a goodly amount of Omnibits. Even if you're a collector and the events run too close together to buy every item with Omnibits, you have to understand that you are an outlier, and that the company still needs to make money.	
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I don't think every event item will need to be available for some sort of event currency. 
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It makes some folk think "why the hell would I bother with an event with crap rewards".
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The problem with the Hoverboard Event's LeDorian Hoverboard was that they constantly showed it whenever they mentioned the event, never alluding to how it would be attainable (which honestly would have been fine with me if they hadn't used it as the main selling point of the entire event), leading most of us to believe it would be a special -earnable- reward somehow. If they had told us in advance that it was a Cash Shop only item, there probably would have been less outrage over it. It would have been nice if we'd had some lesser reward or board or something other than the costume/decor/titles that we could truly aim for and not just spam dailies for (no matter how fun the dailies were). Something that felt a bit more substantial so that the "loss" of the LeDorian wasn't such a big feeling.
 
I liked how Shade's Eve had both Holiday Currency special rewards and Cash Shop specific rewards, and it wasn't such a loss if you didn't get the Warpig since there was still the hoverboard/flairs and the ground mount flairs, too, from the holiday vendor.
			
				
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I liked how Shade's Eve had both Holiday Currency special rewards and Cash Shop specific rewards, and it wasn't such a loss if you didn't get the Warpig since there was still the hoverboard/flairs and the ground mount flairs, too, from the holiday vendor.
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And then the game suffers from EA syndrome. The cash shop gets regular updates and in game items suffer.
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			True! But even so there was still the Hoverboard and flairs.	
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Am I missing something or did they not announce in advance this prestige event was coming? It would have been nice to have at least a weeks notice before the event started...
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			Am I missing something or did they not announce in advance this prestige event was coming? It would have been nice to have at least a weeks notice before the event started...	
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Yeah same for me and my friend, we were levelling engis.
 
Oh well, time to gear my warrior instead I guess :D	
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			Same thing happened to me, if I would have known a week in advance I would have leveled my alt who actually needs prestige fml. I guess it's time to grind some levels..	
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I don't think every event item will need to be available for some sort of event currency. It's alright for them to offer a few items in the Cash Shop, every event, that are strictly NCoin or a goodly amount of Omnibits. Even if you're a collector and the events run too close together to buy every item with Omnibits, you have to understand that you are an outlier, and that the company still needs to make money.
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Don´t see any problems to sell CS items  for a huge amount of event currency beside NCoins. As i said you can mix these two sorts of currencies. There are always players, who buy it for NCoins.
Hopefully a dev will write a statement from Carbine´s perspecctive.
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			Game is free to play now and they have to make money. I don't have a problem with them adding holiday mounts to the cash shop. My only problem is with the price or single-character limitation. I'm perfectly fine with them making some items limited time only and only on the shop, but for the amount they charge, the mounts should be account-wide, or they should keep the single-character restrictions and charge much less. 	
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Game is free to play now and they have to make money. I don't have a problem with them adding holiday mounts to the cash shop. My only problem is with the price or single-character limitation. I'm perfectly fine with them making some items limited time only and only on the shop, but for the amount they charge, the mounts should be account-wide, or they should keep the single-character restrictions and charge much less. 
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They seriously should consider marketing their stuff more, event popping up out of nowhere? Not good at all.
I don't know if you are getting any monthly NCcoins with the subfee? Because that would be something to make subscribers less having to buy something over that. 
Otherwise they seriously needed to add stuff to the store. Last quarter didn't look good in terms of income and NCsoft doesn't drag themselves from shutting games down if needed. I want to spend some money in the game but I don't really see my personal value from subfee, and so far the store hasn't offered anything of my flavour to buy. So I will buy strain snarflelynx for cash, because I want to do something to bump their income for this quarter =) Also they are already giving me the pink pony for free with omnibits. 
According to me there's too little in the store atm, these mounts were good addition but we need more mounts and more costumes in all honesty. 	
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It's not about whether there are players who will buy it for NCoins, despite it being available for a "free" event currency-- it's about making sure that more players will buy it for NCoins, so they can maximize their profits. Remember that NCSoft/Carbine are businesses, which means they're not just trying to do whatever will get them enough money to keep the lights on in the office. They are trying to make profit. And sometimes, "profit" means "we have to make sure that there are some people who's only option is using actual cash if they want this item."
 
Some people would call that a "cash grab". And I would agree, because businesses are literally made to grab for cash. I don't blame them for it-- they're real people who not only live with bills to pay, but who want nicer things. I'm not too modest to admit that I like the idea of having nicer things, too. If it meant I could buy that nice, expensive sweater I saw at the store the other day, you can bet your bottom dollar that I wouldn't offer those items for event currency.
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