Pay for items?

[Tar]

Before I get this game, just wanted to know if there are any items only available for purchase with real money including cosmtetic items?

Thanks

[Gabby]

Yes. But they're pretty much only cosmetic items.

[Tar]

Originally posted by Seraphna:

Yes. But they're pretty much only cosmetic items.

Well that fkn sucks :( pay for the game and subscription just to deal with same crap as any other non sub mmo rpg

Thanks anyways

[Heroic]

you really dont need them at all. you get ALOT of good different armor/weapons/mounts etc for free!

also the items dont give any bonuses.

i only started the game like a week ago, and i can only tell you that you should try it.

though the beginning (1-50) is a bit boring, but after that... AWESOME!

[Elazul]

Yes there is something called the Mog Station which has a bunch of micro transactions in it. "Most" of them are costmetic in nature like glamour items and mounts, however, some can be seen a bit pay to win. Example paying for additional retainers which allows you to store more things and list more items on the market board. This would allow you to hoard more resources and sell more stuff letting you acquire more gil faster. Though currently there isn't a whole lot of things to spend the gil on so unless they add some sort of system where you can buy game time with in game currency(I hope they do not) this is on the fence. The other more clear cut item is the potions that let you skip the main game and first expansions story or the potions that let you level a class instantly up to 60. Granted this isn't the max level so you still need to put in a little work.

To be fair though this MMO is probably the least offensive when it comes to pay to win garbage. BDO being the complete opposite of the spectrum. Sadly the MMO genre is in a bad place currently. It's become the norm to fleece you're subscribers for as much as you can :(

[Tar]

Im going to try free trial and I will see how bad is the situation with cosmetic items in the shop, because lets be real cosmetics is the big deal in games like that everyone wants to create their best looking characters in the game, and its much more fun when everyone has the same tools available to show off their creativity, instead of 90% of players looking identical and only 10% looking unique.

[Gabby]

Originally posted by Tar:

Originally posted by Seraphna:

Yes. But they're pretty much only cosmetic items.

Well that fkn sucks :( pay for the game and subscription just to deal with same crap as any other non sub mmo rpg

Thanks anyways

Most non-sub MMORPGs hold expansion content, power boosters and things generally provided by a sub behind a pay wall. Sub MMOs do not. That's pretty much the difference.

[xyz]

There is a good chunk of cosmetic items and some nice mounts and minions, but its not tht bad. I suggest you doing a free trial get a free account and log into the mogstation (The store) and look at that stuff, if you can do without it you should be okay. There is way more stuff in the game than the store even if they keep adding to it all the time.

[Eddie]

I've played for over 2 years and only ever felt the need to buy 1 mount on mogstation and I barely touch it anymore. All my favorite mounts and cosmetic items were earned in game.

[Tar]

Originally posted by F4ntastic.:

There is a good chunk of cosmetic items and some nice mounts and minions, but its not tht bad. I suggest you doing a free trial get a free account and log into the mogstation (The store) and look at that stuff, if you can do without it you should be okay. There is way more stuff in the game than the store even if they keep adding to it all the time.

yeap, thats the plan. Thanks

[Tar]

Originally posted by Eddie:

I've played for over 2 years and only ever felt the need to buy 1 mount on mogstation and I barely touch it anymore. All my favorite mounts and cosmetic items were earned in game.

Thank you, this is sort a comment i was hoping to see haha

[Oberon]

There are potions that will let you jump a job to 60 as well as ones to skip the ARR or ARR+HW story...but these are really only recommended for alts, and not first time players. Which is probably why they're prohibitively expensive.

[Will]

It has a cosmetic shop. You dont actually need anything on it and alot of it is ♥♥♥♥.

[Reiiyne]

A good chunk of the stuff on the MogSation is stuff you could get from past in-game events. Also, its not like theres a lot of stuff on the Mog in the first place. Most of it is Female gear too.

All in all, theres quite a bit of cosmetic options just in game alone, but seeing as youre a new player. you'll spend about 100-300 hours just trying to get to current endgame content/cosmetics lol.

[xxxaziexxx]

The mog station offers cosmetic items and mounts primarily. However, there are more mounts and cosmetic options earned through in-game play than not. There's a whole load of dyes and glamour options for each piece of armor that you don't need to pay extra for. If you're worried everyone has to buy cosmetics from the shop to look unique, that's definitely not the case here.

The only things in the shop that give any significant advantage are the level skip potions. I'm not gonna include paying extra monthly for retainers because they don't give you a huge advantage unless you're extremely aggressive in buying low and selling high and need all the market slots you can get to resell things.

Level skip potions are a bit debateable. This isn't a primarily competitive game, so I'm hesitant to say you're paying to win anything by skipping levels. If anything, I feel it's a loss for most people as you end up dumped in basically the end-game for a class but you don't have the benefit of having leveled it from 1-- familiarity with the class and how it plays. This ends up being pretty obvious in later dungeons when you find yourself idly asking "how the hell did this person make it to 70 while being so bad?". The answer is usually level skip potions.

[Aishikai]

Level skip potions aren't pay to win. They're pay to keep your sanity lest you have to POTD for 85 years to level dps