Is FFXI getting a cash shop?

[Camiie]

They'd have to develop a working payment system before they can have a cash shop.

[Deirdre]

Vanity or not, I do not like the idea in XI. For two different reasons--the first is that XI has a certain style, and the majority of armor is 'realistic'. Not all, but the majority looks like it would be protective. A lot of vanity in games seems to be either hilariously flashy gear or out of universe (Cloud's armor, Squall's SeeD gear, Tidus's whatever-the-heck-he-wore) that wouldn't fit in Vana'diel well.

The second reason, frankly, is we pay XI and expect all content to be available. If you want a neat hat, I don't want to ever have to go "So does that drop from something mean, or did you simply buy it?" I say no to cash shop in any form.

[Zephrose]

Vanity or not, I do not like the idea in XI. For two different reasons--the first is that XI has a certain style, and the majority of armor is 'realistic'. Not all, but the majority looks like it would be protective. A lot of vanity in games seems to be either hilariously flashy gear or out of universe (Cloud's armor, Squall's SeeD gear, Tidus's whatever-the-heck-he-wore) that wouldn't fit in Vana'diel well.

The second reason, frankly, is we pay XI and expect all content to be available. If you want a neat hat, I don't want to ever have to go "So does that drop from something mean, or did you simply buy it?" I say no to cash shop in any form.

If you think a lot of armor in this game looks realistic compared to other games out there, you're daffy. This game has its subtleties but then it again it has subligars too. And have you seen those on Galka legs... DAMN!

As for the going out and purchasing something more than the monthly sub... Don't purchase anything more. No one is telling you to go out and buy something more than what you think it is worth. Some people enjoy spending extra for things like Mog hat or Gobby suit. The items dont give the players anything extra aside from looks.

Who knows, the shop may also have race/name/face/hair changes as well. I mean, people have been asking for that a lot. Would that not be cool to have?

[Blah]

I'd quit if they added one

Oooooops I guess I'M the only one that thought he was referring to the cross dressing post above him. (Which I kinda want to see but don't want to see)

[Rainehx]

They'd have to develop a working payment system before they can have a cash shop.

(burn)

Personally the notion that inputting CC numbers and paying, rather than playing the game to advance is moronic, its a game... to play it is the whole idea is it not?

From the issues of players being fully equipped but having no idea how to play a job, to the devs becoming lazy and just adding stuff to the "cash shop" rather than making exiting challenging content for said drop is not great prospect.

The only way it would work for me personally is if they had either a rmt'er icon viewable to distinguish the rmters, or separate servers.

[Spectreman]

I think subscription based games should NEVER have a cash shop. Where is this going to end?

[Finuve]

I think subscription based games should NEVER have a cash shop. Where is this going to end?

dunno, modern MMO design has dictated that people that enjoy vanity items should have to pay for them instead of collecting in game, and juggernauts like WoW have decided that the leveling process is no longer a worthwhile part of the game and just let you buy your way past it.

[Shirai]

Where is this going to end?

When a cash shop added to it will no longer provide enough extra revenue to keep it up.
Keep in mind that, as I have mentioned before, your money is more important to the company than your petty protests.

And looking at the amount of $24,- Odin horses I see pass by on my Guildwork feed, paired with the plethora of messages of people getting caught in the log in queue the cash shop has already proven more successful in FFXIV than the protests of people saying that they will quit the game over it.
I'm pretty sure that they've already considered adding one to this game, and with the success of the one implemented for XIV implementation is just a matter of time.

[Zephrose]

When a cash shop added to it will no longer provide enough extra revenue to keep it up.
Keep in mind that, as I have mentioned before, your money is more important to the company than your petty protests.

And looking at the amount of $24,- Odin horses I see pass by on my Guildwork feed, paired with the plethora of messages of people getting caught in the log in queue the cash shop has already proven more successful in FFXIV than the protests of people saying that they will quit the game over it.
I'm pretty sure that they've already considered adding one to this game, and with the success of the one implemented for XIV implementation is just a matter of time.

This. +1

A few people squabbling about "No Cash Shop" isn't going to stop them from adding one when literally hundreds of thousands of players are going to race to the shop for exclusive merchandise anyways. Square Enix loves you, sure. But they love your wallet more. That's just business for you. That's not to say they wont treat you nice and wipe your precious little booty for the right price.

[Deirdre]

If you think a lot of armor in this game looks realistic compared to other games out there, you're daffy. This game has its subtleties but then it again it has subligars too. And have you seen those on Galka legs... DAMN!

As for the going out and purchasing something more than the monthly sub... Don't purchase anything more. No one is telling you to go out and buy something more than what you think it is worth. Some people enjoy spending extra for things like Mog hat or Gobby suit. The items dont give the players anything extra aside from looks.

Who knows, the shop may also have race/name/face/hair changes as well. I mean, people have been asking for that a lot. Would that not be cool to have?

I simply meant the armor STYLE. The graphics of course are behind brand new games, but the majority of armor that you purchase tends to have protective layers of mail or leather, not giant exposed boobs that are miraculously protected by the aura of the armor or whatever XD.

I agree with face and hair options, but why should we PAY for it? Why shouldn't we earn that in a quest if SE really wants to offer it? Give us a barber NPC that we have to escort from jeuno at level capped 20, fine, but I'd prefer that we didn't get in the habit where the answer was always "put it on the cash shop!".