Exactly as it says in the title. We don't know what an accessory's cost is going to be until after we've used the item and go to view it in the salon. Sure, you can look it up outside the game, but isn't that kind of a hassle? I'd like this important bit of info to be made visible in the item tooltip/description, please.
Now that I've had time to warm up to the change, I can say that I actually like the new SG scratch system. It sucks getting dupes, yes, but you know what sucks even more? Items that are made completely unobtainable once their limited-time window ends.
I absolutely agree that item bloat is an issue that needs to be addressed in some way or another, and I too am curious to know how SEGA intends to handle it. Perhaps right now we are looking at the "Chapter 1" SG scratch pool, ie Aelio themed stuff.... and the winter update will mark the beginning of a new, separate "chapter 2" SG scratch pool featuring NPC outfits from the desert area? If that were the case, I wouldn't be surprised to see the Ch1 stuff retired from free pulls, but left available as its own standalone paid scratch so people could still have access to that selection. Hmmm.
Yes PLEASE to more options for depth in general. The NGS faces (T2 and snipt faces in particular) look horrifyingly flat when viewed at an angle, and tbh that pushes me away from the new face variants entirely. They just sit firmly in uncanny valley imo, and nothing short of additional sliders for depth, or a new face variant that addresses the lack of depth, will convince me to make the switch.
It's a shame, because I want to make the switch to NGS faces, but doing so currently feels like a downgrade to me despite all the extra features. (And due to that, sega isn't getting my money for NGS eyes/makeup options....)
They were a Fresh Finds item back in the day and are no longer obtainable. We can only hope that they'll be revived in the future, somehow.
@Miraglyth said in Hiro Arai himself confirms they will keep following their update model and that global has a good and healthy marketplace:
Actually the biggest thing that annoyed me about the interview:
Adding special abilities to "PSO2" was complicated, and users sometimes hesitated to upgrade their equipment, so it has become a simple and easy-to-understand form.
You know what's making me hesitate to upgrade my equipment? The possibility* that I'll get a drop of exactly the same piece of equipment I'm using but with Fixa Attack 3+. NGS made that worse, not better, than base PSO2, because base PSO2 has augment transfer and doesn't have on-drop scuffing in the first place.
* Oh and by the way this already happened to me several weeks back. Barely a day after I get my Cattleya Sword to +40 and stick some decent augments on it, bam! Cattleya Sword with Fixa Attack 3 just drops into my inventory. Great!
Thank you for putting this into words. This is exactly why we NEED a system to transfer Fixas from one same-named weapon/unit to another... there are so, so many people who consider non-Fixas pointless to upgrade and won't even touch them because they don't want to invest in a sub-par weapon that can never become as good as it should be. I'm one of those people.
I am truly worried for the state of the game with these UQs tbh. In JP, trigger quests were released in OG PSO2 as the "solution" to UQ scheduling woes... except in JP, those triggers always cost ~200 SG apiece. The only triggers you could buy in bulk and spam were solo PD, and solo mother/deus.
I fear that what we got in Global (essentially, access to near-unlimited triggers just by playing the game/farming badges) was only due to Global's accelerated release schedule, and wasn't at all what it was intended to be going forward... I would love to be proven wrong, but NGS has had a track record with being FAR more money-grubby than its predecessor so far. It's really sad to see tbh.
All this has done is ensure I'll avoid spending SG to scratch for the forseeable future. If it turns out that SG scratches are now following FUN scratch patterns, then anyone spending on the braver banner would only get burned again once the Manon banner arrives.
Terrible design, either way. At the very least they need to clarify if this is going to be the norm moving forward or if this is a one time thing specifically for braver.
With the cost of the scratch bonuses as sky-high as they are, the scratch bonus system actively disincentivizes me from scratching.
You aren't rewarded for spending small but frequent sums of money- you are only rewarded if you go hardcore whale on a single banner. Naturally, this results in people avoiding scratching entirely until/unless the scratch bonus contains something that is an absolute must-have for them.
What could have been $30/month on scratches is instead reduced to something like $90 a year thanks to this fact.
This survey was incredibly poorly handled, imo. I wanted to give feedback on a lot of things, but my survey was cut short because of my first few choices. People shouldn't have to falsify a bunch of answers just to give proper feedback on the things they want to...
The better solution, imo, is to:
reduce area chat range so it doesn't span the entire area
increase the range of the 'nearby players' list to cover the entire zone
Enable people to click on chat messages to report/block them, much like FFXIV has that "report for RMT activity" feature.
I imagine that once we get our next island (which is almost certainly going to be gated by story quests) the spambots won't be quite so prevalent there, at least... but we still need better tools to deal with them.