Earlier I, and others complained that people could just buy their way to the new ship. Then defenders, including Cin claimed you couldn’t because the new items come in the Xenchips box, which you can only get by playing, not paying. I, and others then pointed out how there was in fact a GS random box with the same faction items in it, so that claim was false. Cin later retorted how there was an item in the Xenchips box, that wasn’t in the GS box, and about that time locked this thread. Problem with that claim was that item wasn’t in the Xenchips box, or available anywhere at that time, but the claim was made in the present tense, as in that item was already in the box, which was untrue. Since the thread was locked at that time, I PMed Cin about that whole thing, but he responded to claim that he just doesn’t see the problem in all that, well the problem is that he was giving false info, which isn’t good. What makes this all that much worse is when I popped on today, I noticed a new thing in the cash shop, an option to buy Xenochips with GS, so the claims we couldn’t buy our way through, are now even less true than before. Beyond that, some of these Xenochips tasks have just been absurd, and seems like far too much hassle/frustration for me to even want to bother with at all (also what happened to being able to accept such tasks, to be completed on later days?), making it feel like they’re really trying to drive people to buy everything with GS. It also makes me worry about future events, instead of being able to do some task to get some fixed reward, I feel we may just be getting an event currency, so we can buy a random box, while they also sell that event currency for GS.
Now with the way this new faction’s ships works, and all that nonsense mentioned above, it just points to a rather absurd grind wall we’re suppose to overcome, and how easily most things can be bypassed with GS, if not now, then later. Another also commented on how the random box with the new premium ships parts will be removed on the same day the trading system is slated to come. People have complained about the random parts nature of those ships, with responses from Cin on how they need not worry, as soon there will be a trade system. Although if certain parts are rarer than others, as some have noted, the trading system wouldn’t end up being all that much help, but official assurances that it would fix that issue surely helped them sell more random boxes. Worse still is that since they have all but confirmed the trading system will be using a trading channel, with direct trading, not a marketplace UI, we still wouldn’t even be able to tell for certain if one part, is rarer than another, and many wouldn’t want to deal with the hassle of that trading system either, so would be stuck with a bunch of parts they can’t do anything with, but the company will already have your money then.
