Aion adds Lineage II armor microtransaction items

@JadeCurtiss

It's not... Welcome to 2011.

@Fakeassname The items in the shop are not needed. They are vanity items, so it is your choice to buy or not.

@Fakeassname
Welcome to 2011, where have you been? :P

Hehe.. in all seriousness, every game does that or something similar at this point, or at least it feels like it anyway.

@Fakeassname You mean like most p2p games? *shrug*

@Fakeassname
Why are you surprised about this. NCsoft have had a cash-shop for over 5 years.
You either buy or you don't, its no biggie.

@Fakeassname

well gee, excuse me for not playing any of NCsoft's games.

@WyattEarp89

Still. F2Ps use Cash shops to pay for the game.

A monthly-fee game using a cash shop still irks me. Those are things that would otherwise be quest rewards.

Double-dipping in my book and I don't like it. Not one bit!

*stomps off*

@Pingles

Meh, I don't think about it. If it did have game changing items then yes I would be upset, but since it does not I don't care if they have it or not. If people want to buy those items that is their right.

Double dipping or not it is the customers choice if they want to buy those items. NCsoft and other companies see that players would pay money to get vanity items along with paying a sub fee. Its profit for the company and the customer gets a vanity item that they want.

@WyattEarp89

Woops, the second sentence should have read like this:

" If it did have game changing items then yes I would be upset, but since it does not I don't care if they have a cash shop or not."

Need an edit button, lol.

@Fakeassname

Is there some kind of underlying assumption that everything should be included in the subscription plan everyone is paying for? Your mobile cell phone provider certainly doesn't offer a "one size fits all" subscription plan, nor does your internet service provider, or your cable TV provider. You want more? Pay for it.

In any case, it's just cosmetic costumes. It's the most common type of cash shop item. To hear someone crying about it just makes me wonder if that person actually plays any MMO.

@Jade Effect

When the majority of MMOs being opened have NO subscription then YES, I do believe that the ones that DO require a subscription give you all the bells and whistles to convince you to shell out an automatic payment.

All of these games did without cash shops for years. It was only when the F2Ps showed up and showed that folks are willing to do microtransactions that the subscription ones decided to jump in and grab some more cash.

These items that they are selling would still be in the game in the old days. They would have been either random drops or quest rewards.

NOW, they're saving their fanciest, sparkliest things for people who are willing to throw them some extra money on top of the subscription. When some art guy goes to his boss with a new item that is awesome the boss is no longer thinking "What mob should we make drop this?" he's thinking "How much can we get for this?"

And, to be clear, they bug me but these things don't kill a game for me. I play a game who is doing both. I don't like it but I know it's the future.

The idea that Blizzard is making boatloads of cash from subscriptions and STILL nickel-and-diming their subscribers for trinkets is obscene to me.