TBH I think what irks me about this scratch isn't the low rates... but rather that they gave Garoa's outfit/voice/etc normal rates while the rates for Aina's stuff super low.

Like... come on, at least make the rates the same for both genders. They're both 'featured' NPCs in this scratch, aren't they? :V

It's arguably going to be worse now, because messages in the lobby have a FAR wider range in NGS than on OG PSO2. Before, you could always find them in the same spot... now? Now you have to follow their speech bubbles halfway across the city to find out where they are so you can block+report them...

I, too, am not getting any SG. I wasn't concerned about it because I assumed no one was getting it (I saw the news) but now I see some people getting it and not others? What gives?

@Ezodagrom said in PSA: Rewind Heroes & Heroines are perfect replicas of JP perma AC scratches!:

@Kodiakmax I disagree, personally I think it would be better to have the upgraded outfits scratches on NGS itself and not in the current PSO2 with its cradle inflated player shops. There's not enough time for those scratches to come to PSO2 before the NGS release anyway.

This. At this point, it would just be REALLY jarring to have one or two NGS-scratches 'stuck' on the OG PSO2 side of things.... and in a market where all the NGS-newcomers/returners wouldn't even have a chance of being able to afford them. We've waited this long, we can wait a bit longer.

IIRC the treasure shop is basically the same concept as fresh finds, except the rotation is a random rotation per-account rather than a predetermined selection for everyone. (plus you can pay a small amount of SG to roll a new batch of items if you don't like what's in stock that day). If it contains the entirety of Fresh Finds' items in its pool, that could be a very good thing overall. In a perfect world, they'd throw the Mission Pass items in there as well... but we'll see.

Taking a peek at the JP CAST permascratches, I see the Lamia CV set in there. No Lamia (original) color variant to be seen. I.... guess it's something? But I was REALLY hoping for the original color, as it's going to be near impossible to match the CV version to any of the parts I already have.

Now I really want to know what will happen to our CAST part scratches. I fully expect the sets from mission Pass to be cut, sadly... but I would LOVE to be proven wrong.

@RainGnyu said in Inflated Shop Prices:

I still don’t understand how cradle made this an issue?

Cradle drops lots and lots of 13-14* weapons and units.

People turn all these weapons and units into cubes.

Then they turn all these cubes into grinders.

Then they sell the grinders to an NPC for a ton of meseta.

Now people have lots and lots of meseta. They buy up all the popular items they like/want because they can afford to- What used take several days of farming is now only a couple of cradle runs. An hour or two, tops. And so all the cheap/affordable items got bought up, and now the only ones left are the ones at the inflated price tag. That's what you're seeing now.

I hope that explains things simply enough.

I would also like to point out that for most people, missing out on one outfit probably isn't a big deal. There's plenty of other outfits out there, right? If you can't get the outfit/hair from mission pass, just find something similar- There's a million dresses or hairstyles or whatever, just pick one that's close to that, right? It's not like mission pass cosmetics are your only option. ...Right?

But then you have CASTS, who have nearly half of their entire part collection locked behind mission passes. And that includes head parts. Many of those parts don't even have other options that are close enough to work if you're going for a certain look. And even if there are, what's the chance that those parts are mission pass exclusives too? Pretty damn high.

I guess I'll just look at the silver lining to this- The mission pass being discontinued means that we won't have to worry about people being locked out of future cosmetics like this. There'll still be limited time event things in NGS featuring untradeable items, I'm sure, but I can only hope won't be anywhere near the level that CASTS have to deal with in OG PSO2...

The way I see it, the mission pass was almost entirely a means to just push cosmetics out faster so we could get closer to parity with JP fashion-wise. If they were meant to be one-off, never again released things.... Then we wouldn't have gotten any revivals. It would have been all new stuff. For every single mission pass.

The fact that we got revivals means that they weren't intended to be one-off things. Just limited time things, with revivals later on. But now the mission pass is being discontinued. All I want is for Sega to continue reviving the mission pass items we have. I don't care how. I just want them to continue to make them available through some means or another.