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[wrowa]

Put this crap in the garbage where it belongs.

How are people ok with these things?

Why wouldn't they? The game has three difficulty settings you can change on the fly and you can also change the amount of random encounters to zero if you feel like it. Bravely Second is a feature that's not affecting the gameplay in any meaningful way, so why get rilled up over it?

 

[Aeana]

I don't like the idea of this either, but since it wasn't in the original game, and they said they made the game easier than it was in the original version anyway, there's absolutely no way it is necessary at all.

 

[BudokaiMR2]

Why wouldn't they? The game has three difficulty settings you can change on the fly and you can also change the amount of random encounters to zero if you feel like it. Bravely Second is a feature that's not affecting the gameplay in any meaningful way, so why get rilled up over it?

As someone who is genuinely interested in the IP I would rather them not shoot themselves in the foot and create bad PR for something completely unnecessary like this.

However, it is too late now.

And yeah it is just a slippery slope which people are scared to go down. Please peek into the Forza 5 monetization thread and count how many people had no problem with the token implementation in Forza 4 but are now foaming at the mouth.

 

[Velcro Fly]

Only it's not. You aren't being locked out of content and forced to grind incessantly to do anything. The game comes with difficulty settings and things that can be changed to make it easier to play. If they were selling THAT then we'd have a different story entirely. I don't think this is quite as scummy as people are making it out to be.

 

[Aeneas]

Nah, none of these people had any intention to buy the game in the first place.

Well I will play this game anyway, I have been waiting for this for a long time.
I don't know if I should buy used to condemn microtransactions or buy new to support JRPGs in EU. Voting with my wallet is hard

 

[turnbuckle]

Nah, none of these people had any intention to buy the game in the first place.

All of you people skipping this because of this little invisible thing which you don't need to ever use abd won't effect the gameplay at all are fools. This isn't anything like the whole Forza fiasco, nowhere near close. So have fun skipping what looks like one of the best RPG's on the 3DS because of 'principles'...

I... don't understand. People really don't want to buy this game because of this? Optional microtransactions? I'm out of this thread...

Lot of overreactions here. And I think people claiming they won't buy it because of "principles" didn't had any attention to buy it at first.

Gimme a break, guys. This is just sad. Calling people fools or saying people are being disingenuous about their original intent to buy the game just reeks of some weird desperation. Something something Stockholm Syndrome... Guess it's easier to get upset or call other gamers dishonest or dumb than to admit this is a shitty trend being put into otherwise great games. This doesn't have to be "Forza 5" to be upsetting.

I wouldn't use this option in the game, but it's a cynical and dishonest "feature" I won't support. I had absolutely every intention of picking this game up, but if it puts your mind at ease feel free to think I'm lying.

 

[Aeana]

I knew we had a thread about this before: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=694398

 

[MoogleWizard]

I really hate pay to win shit like this. As much as I loved the demo, I'm now tempted to cancel my preorder, I don't want to support publishers/devs that try to push this crap.

 

[GenericJoe]

Nonsense. If they see that a lot of peope bought the game, but next to no one made use of the microtransactions, their conclusion won't be "Oh wow, microtransactions surely helped our sales!"

As long as there are whales who lack common sense, stuff like this is always going to be profitable. It doesn't matter how tiny a percent of players actually buy them. All they have to see is one nut who spends $40,000 on an iOS spinoff and that's all the financial justification they need to have microtransactions in every future iteration.