2013-06-25, 09:47 PM
xparasite9 Wrote:Hypothetical:
I buy a Gachapon ticket for 1000 NX. I use it and receive a Premium Fusion Ticket that can be obtained with much more ease and for a much lower price. So low in fact, that I could have bought two of them. In fact, if I actually wanted one, I would have just directly purchased one instead of using Gachapon. Therefore, if I am purchasing a Gachapon ticket, I do not desire a Premium Fusion ticket. This means that obtaining a Premium Fusion ticket is actually a complete, full loss, with a 50% consolation.
Again. You are not "purchasing" a gachapon ticket. You are not paying real-world money for it.
I have old mule accounts with thousands of Maple Points on them, which I never paid a cent for. I can buy Gachapon tickets with those Maple Points, since they are a form of NX.
xparasite9 Wrote:I can get 500 NX by paying 50 cents...or, rather, by paying the preset amount, meaning I'd often be buying more than I actually wanted to (and don't think this isn't intentionally designed!). Or yeah, you can do an online survey, doing probably three dollars worth of labor for a payment of forty cents. I'd love to see what in-game quests there are that award players with NX cash. Same for these mythical cases of altruistic gift credits. And in the case of "they messed up bad", that's usually because, while they do have a limitation of liability, that still requires them to refund "THE LESSER OF TWENTY U.S. DOLLARS OR THE TOTAL CUMULATIVE AMOUNT PAID [...] TO OBTAIN CASH ITEMS".
There were several events that gave NX. Off the top of my head:
- Thanksgiving event where you got an "allowance" from "Mom & Dad" NPCs every day. At the end of the event, the allowance coupons in your Etc inventory were replaced by NX.
- Attendance event where you had to be on for an hour every day for a week.
- "Big Wig" event where players could send each other boxes that gave NX.
- "cash back" events where you get some NX back for using it in a given time period.
As for "messed up bad", sometimes they gave out "compensation" for downtime or rollback in the form of NX, sometimes they didn't. Giving NX is not a "refund" and the NX is not worth $20 or any other amount, since you can't take it out of the game.