same here

but EVE

that game tends to suck up every moment of my free time - will have to really think hard about going back

Originally posted by MikeB

Icarus Studios has entered the RMT fray with the launch of their very own Item Store for their post-apocalyptic MMO, Fallen Earth.

The first two items available in the shop include a Kaibab Cur ($10 USD) pet which offers players companionship and an additional four storage slots, and a pair of Brass Goggles ($5 USD), which offer protection from piercing, fire, cold, and ballistic damage.

What is truly surprising about this announcement is the fact the store doesn't appear to be limited to "fluff" or convenience items, as the Brass Goggles are essentially the straight up purchase of gear.

Check out the item shop here.

What do you think of the new item shop? Let us know in the comments below!

[Thanks skinnys for the tip!]

 

Thank god I left that gong show before it went complete prostitute. Nice to see their brain dead devs working hard at making ways to soak even more unearned money from its customers instead of using their time to implement long dead promises for advancement in gameplay that would attract regular sub customers.

Way to take a game of great potential and throw it in the shit bin.

 

You wanna now how i feel about it? I started playing from day one of pre-release and today i canceled my sub to Fallen Earth. I can not support cash-shop in a P2P game. Dosent matter if its fluff items or not, even if they are selling suspiciouse cheese i would still not support it. I urge anyone else that feels like i do to unsub now. We need to take a stand, THE CASH-SHOP NEEDS TO GO.

Time for Icarus to start raping their player base, very sad when this happens but even more so when it's an indie studio doing it. This kind of gross all out no holds barred cash grab just sickens me, guess we'll see FE on the station pass this time next year or canceled!

Originally posted by Ceridith

Any desire to come back to the game after I decided to take a break a couple months ago is now gone.

I kind of saw this coming after they gutted their staff... which is why I left.

 

 Me too. Best decision ever!

They really pulled a "John Smedly" on their playerbase with this one. Unannounced. So out of the blue.

So much for the claim that their subscription numbers were rising. Mehh... they are no their last straws and try to milk their remaining playerbase for every penny they can.

RIP

I actually left in December, then march/april I saw teh 'come abck for free motnh' offer, So I duly got my free code, entered it and played for a few hours then logged out again

Imagine how Peeved I was to see on my CC bill the following month they had billed me for it.....

and now this? as above, Subs+ is a SUPER bad idea, but as we have already seen, everyone is moving that way, there will always be someone who is cash rich time poor who will stump up a few bucks.

I doubt CCP would go this way, the reason why? it would decimate the player economy if they could pay cold hard cash RL for a Titan instead of having to purchase the materials ingame....

and I am sure their economist would punch whoever it is who sugests an Item shop, PLEX are fine, not item shops

I lol'd.

If anyone thinks that this is not the way all MMO's are going then you are mistaking.

Best would just be to deal with it and hope nothing of consequence is sold on the shop.

The goggles are fluff, a novelty item which I doubt anyone will wear past the week they bought it.

Where has whining about it gotten you so far on any other MMO which has it? I see Blizzard went and removed their mount in utter fear of the whining masses.

Not.

It doesn't matter if it is a game breaker or not! It doesn't mater if it is only cosmetic or social. If you are paying a sub why shouldn't you have acces to the whole game.

  I also canceled my sub!

I keep up w/ MMO news as much as I can and play a fair amount of them but haven't tried FE yet.  I always planned on it, just haven't had the approriate amount of time.  When I first read this I was as angry at it as you all were.  I hate the idea of item shops plus subs if the items are more than fluff. 

Then I read a little further and I think someone said that these goggles were given away from a magazine.  I could be wrong about this.  And they appear to be a very low lvl item.  I still don't like the idea of selling stat items but if this was something from pre order or some type of giveaway, then I tend to be more ok with it.  Though I think a game should be out around a year before they do this.  As long as they don't sell anything that wasn't given away at some point and then sell the rest as fluff stuff, it doesn't seem as bad as it's being made out to be. 

Fallen Earth is a game that lacks some of the more complex systems and polish of other MMO's, but it still requires a premium subscription fee to play. Now the resource strapped Icarus Studios will be focusing on developing cash grab items for the cash shop while players continue to pony up their sub fees.

What is 'fluff' to one player is content to another. Items in the cash shop represent rewards and/or craftables that should be accessible in the game. Maybe Icarus should have thought about making extra revenue through account services instead, such as expanded inventory, name changes, shared vault slots, character slots, etc..

I was there since day 1, I unsubbed a few months ago as i lacked free time, i was going to resub in september but... oh well, it's gone... a huge disappointment!

Originally posted by choujiofkono

     I think this..

Which some politically influenced people mistakenly refer to as a troll, which if you look at what it actually depicts is just the truth.  The truth is sometimes hard to accept.  The death of the MMO genre.

 

Couldn't agree more.

Originally posted by thesleeper

I lol'd.

If anyone thinks that this is not the way all MMO's are going then you are mistaking.

Best would just be to deal with it and hope nothing of consequence is sold on the shop.

The goggles are fluff, a novelty item which I doubt anyone will wear past the week they bought it.

Where has whining about it gotten you so far on any other MMO which has it? I see Blizzard went and removed their mount in utter fear of the whining masses.

Not.

We are dealing with it, and that's by avoiding (re-)subbing to or quitting the game, because the addition of RMT crosses the line of our enjoyment of the game, for various reasons amongst us.

In this case for Icarus, it looks like there are enough pissed off players quiting, and those who were deciding to come back changing their minds because of this, to seriously hurt FE's player base. In all possibility, this decision to add RMT for FE has significantly hastened it's demise.

So yes, if a developer wants to tack on RMT to their game, they can. That doesn't mean we'll gobble it up or stick around while they infest the game with RMT. We have the choice of avoiding or leaving that game, which many of us who dislike RMT do.

The MMO industry can only go where where we, the consumers, let it go.

Wow, and Icarus didn't even buy you guys dinner first.

Well, item shops will most likely become a standard and quite frankly I can live with it (does not neces.means that I can afford it) provided it is limited to comestic/minor effect.

Now 10$ for a dog with 4 slots inventory is imho a bit too much. Not the best way to launch an item shop feature.

OMG, sub cancelled. They can't even claim this is simply 'Fluff'. So once again we see a game stoop to charging for box+sub+expansions+Microtransaction (I realise there have been no Expansions for FE yet, but give it time).

What a week, between LOTRO and this I've actually now got no subs left to an mmo. I suppose technically I've got a worthless lifetime subscription to LOTRO. I guess I'm finally done playing MMO's.

Originally posted by markt50

OMG, sub cancelled. They can't even claim this is simply 'Fluff'. So once again we see a game stoop to charging for box+sub+expansions+Microtransaction (I realise there have been no Expansions for FE yet, but give it time).

What a week, between LOTRO and this I've actually now got no subs left to an mmo. I suppose technically I've got a worthless lifetime subscription to LOTRO. I guess I'm finally done playing MMO's.

I think you're over-reacting a bit, or weren't really enjoying LotRO all that much anyways if you're willing to quit over the changes they announced.

I wouldn't leave EVE if they offered alternate payment plans (which is what LotRO's is all about really)

But as long as your cool with not playing MMO's thats OK..... me I sort of like them.

Out of any game doing an item mall - FE was among the few games I figured would never go this route? And like the article states - this isnt just little item mall items - this shits straight up gear purchasing

Originally posted by Wharg0ul

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

OMG!! I predicted this TODAY!!! This very morning!!!

Next they will move to a F2P model. Watch and see if they don't.

 

I mean, it's a shame, really. FE had so much potential.

 

HAD is the big word here :)