Re-sell you the item? Yeah, sure, I guess... I don't see them changing their mind on this one, sadly.

But I would really prefer if we didn't have to go through untradeable RNG hell a second time for what amounts to the same item. Like.... IDK, put the pick-anything ticket for the inevitable NGS-remakes/re-runs into the recycle shop, so those of us who scratched the originals a TON could just grab our favorite updated pieces with all these recycle badges we've accumulated over the past year.

Still waiting for the lamia set here.... not even to unlock account wide, I just want one copy. My CAST outfit will forever be incomplete until I can get it.

For what it's worth, I play on ship 3 and I have no problem finding parties for content- Good parties, at that. But then again, I make it a habit to say "hey, keep me in mind if you need someone to run with" to everyone in a group after a particularly good run of risk/triggers/divides/ etc. And given that I'm more than capable of pulling my own weight... they do.

Is ship 3 quiet? I would assume it is, compared to ship 2. Does that mean it's dead? Not really- it depends on how you approach things. A low-pop ship might actually be better if you get to know everyone and get along with them- You get to know who runs what, and when, pretty fast. But if you're the type who wants to meet someone new every day, or see a crowd everywhere you go? Yeahhhh that's probably not gonna happen on a low pop ship lol.

@LusterMain said in Im sorry but what is this:

@GM-Deynger said in Im sorry but what is this:

Hello everyone! Thank you for letting us know how you feel about this. In your opinion, if you were to assign certain "categories" of items a higher value, what would they be? Wings, or Horns, for example? A general ranking of accessory importance, or layering wear importance, might help the team. Thank you!

While it is technically an issue of "category value", that's a bit of an overgeneralized view. Different players will think that "highly potent" cosmetics should be super rare and expensive and others think that they should be very cheap and obtainable. The main issue in this case, in my opinion, is that one of the items that's being sold for a very high price, the Aeros face, is a colossal outlier, and cant even begin to be compared to the rest of the items.

The Aeros face completely blows everything else out of the water. I explained why this is the case in my first post on this topic. The most relevant part, however, is that the Aeros face is the only true fix for what many people see as a fundamental flaw with F CASTs. With the way it works, it almost feels like it should have been an item that's available by default for free. I'm not saying it should be that - it certainly shouldn't, at this point - but when something in the game creates that feeling, it also certainly shouldn't be hardlocked behind an 80 scratch bonus.

In my opinion, almost everything about how Aeros is being treated right now is wrong: It's untradeable, its value is unbelievably high, you can only get one, it's only available for a limited time, and the worst of all, it is all of that despite being a cosmetic that is limited to F CASTs. For an item that creates a feeling as if it's a fix for a flaw in the game, I think it should at least be available reliably and/or often, and not for outrageous prices like 80 scratches. It should have been a 40 scratch reward at most.

Hard agree with all of this, however, I will add that I have poked around in PSO2JP since their latest update, and all gender/race locks on current outfits/head parts/hairstyles/faces have been removed there. Female casts are able to use male cast heads alongside female parts, and vice versa (though you still can't mix and match body/arm/leg parts, those still have to be all one or the other.) If anything, though, that only makes Aeros even more desirable... If people can use it with their male characters too, it really shouldn't be treated in the way that it is- it definitely needs to be more accessible.

@GM-Deynger said in Im sorry but what is this:

Hello everyone! Thank you for letting us know how you feel about this. In your opinion, if you were to assign certain "categories" of items a higher value, what would they be? Wings, or Horns, for example? A general ranking of accessory importance, or layering wear importance, might help the team. Thank you!

How about just giving a token of sorts for every 5 scratches and introducing an exchange for said tokens lasting the duration of the scratch? Much like we get green/red medals for purchasing the episode oracle pack, or the ep6 pack... This would allow people to pick and choose items they desire (Aeros Face, for instance, might cost 5 badges, equalling 25 scratches. Things like posters and other less-desired categories of items might only cost one badge. If you go this route, people could actually unlock multiples of an item they want in the scratch bonuses instead of being stuck with a single copy and a bunch of other random items they don't want. People are paying real money for these things, the least that could be done is to make doing so worthwhile.

Yeah... the fact that people who missed the face the first time won't even be able to unlock it account-wide at that price is the biggest joke here. All of this could be solved simply by adding another set of face tickets at 15 and 25... People who scratched last time can unlock those account wide, people who didn't scratch last time could either get one copy for a few scratches, or whale a bunch to get it account wide. Which is, y'know, a bit more reasonable than expecting people to pay $160 to unlock a robot face for a single character.

@AiC-L said in I'm sick and tired of people "Waiting for NGS" and absolutely do nothing at all in PSO2.:

@Tarina If it's just cosmetics to grind for, there's a bunch of unique weapon camos from Risk Exploration. More experienced players can hit up Divide Quests after they update with the Earth camos. They're both pure RNG sources, but there's definitely stuff that's relatively untouched. Heck the Risk Exploration camos are going for 100 mil+ on Ship 2, and there's barely any on the market. It's a perfect entry point into UH difficulty too, but the entire mode has been dead since it launched.

I've had very little issue with getting groups together for Divide when I want to clear it. I'm also able to clear it solo if I can't find a group to run with. But Risk Exploration...? Everything there seems to be scaled for a 12-man party, and while cleaning out mobs solo/4man is certainly possible, it's just not feasible to farm HP sponges like that in a reasonable manner with a smaller party. Shame, really, because it's a really nice place to farm for Crack augments. Though you do bring up a point- perhaps more 4man/scaled content is in order... and better matchmaking options.

@GM-Deynger My suggestion: Implement a shop with a buttload of weapon camos (ESPECIALLY if they're the OT weapons from JP that we never got in global), accessories, even a few outfits/hairstyles... Make it something that's permanent, but also something that people can't just grind in a single day. Perhaps a weekly cap of some sort?

...But this needs to be either badges or Meseta, here. SG shouldn't even be considered an option- we already have way too many places that eat up SG, we don't need any more.

And I'll stress again that this should be a permanent shop, not a limited time one... Give people something they can work on at their own pace, on their own time. As I've stated in an earlier post... If the constant FOMO of limited-time mission passes, limited-time fresh finds, limited-time campaigns, limited-time everything else isn't enough to get people to log on, maybe it's time to try something different.

Yeahhhhh no. I saw Aeros face and was almost considering scratching for it... then I saw how many scratches it required ($160 worth? What the hell??) and noped right out. Not gonna scratch this one at all now.

Now, let it be said that I don't mind working for things. I'm actually grinding 800 titles right now... But having missed all the limited-time freebie (campaign/mission pass) Rivalate keys... Having to grind 800 titles or 100,000,000 divide quest points as your only options is a bit much considering Global's hyper-compressed release schedule. I don't mind the weapons themselves being limited, but when Rivalate is your only option for obtaining specific S-augments (and often very desirable, weapon-defining ones at that) something needs to give.

My proposal would be to either add a one-time, but permanent, exchange for a single Rivalate key to Zig/Rising badge shop, to mirror the one that JP has... or add all the S-augments exclusive to Rivalate to the Rising Weapons badge shop so people can still obtain them for Puras/Steel/other S5-capable weps. TBH I'd prefer the latter, so people can actually, yknow, use all the Rivalates they do have instead of feeling like they have to leave one unused just so they can farm its S5s out to other weapons.