This is just appalling

For the premium we pay for this game (monthly sub + expansion + extra monthly rent for reasonable storage amounts) I really hate all the cash only exclusive glamour that gets added to the game. The odd mount/pet/old event items are fine but exclusive glamour is getting to be really old for a subscription game. We have not crossed the line yet, but the day we get an event where we can earn one part of an outfit in game...like say gloves or hat...and the rest of the outfit you have to buy from the shop is the day SE loses me as a customer unless the game is F2P at that point (lets hope it never goes F2P.)

I'm fine with costumes, mounts and services via the mogstore... I 100% don't agree with emotes being an additional charge.

I do think the price is far too high.
The set is gorgeous, but I ration that we are about to get an entire expansion with the theme so I'll find something else in the style

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Originally Posted by dragonseth07

If you want it to stop, STOP BUYING THEM.

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I want it to stop, I haven't bought anything, but it isn't stopping. What do?

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Originally Posted by Niqote

we are about to get an entire expansion with the theme so I'll find something else in the style

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This is my hope.

My inner pessimist meanwhile keeps going "No Far Eastern wear in Stormblood, cash-shop only."

You guys should've seen TF2.

Valve sells virtual hats for 13.00 US dollars.

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Originally Posted by ToasterMan

You guys should've seen TF2.

Valve sells virtual hats for 13.00 US dollars.

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SE is defiantly not the only company cashing in on stuff like this. Fighting game dlc costumes are also getting absurd.

Non-seasonal cash shop items production isn't financed by sub fees but by cash shop sales. No cash shop sales, no items. Pretty simple.

Our subs pay for server rental, maintenance, customer service and core development including patch and event content. We get a patch every 3 and a half months, usually with multiple new glamour options for all Jobs as well as emotes, housing items and of course the content itself.

FF14 will have a set budget based off FF14's revenue. The Cash shop only increases this revenue and thus allows for an increase to the base budget.

We will almost certainly get Asian style glamour in the expansion, which hasn't launched yet, so its a bit premature to be complaining that we haven't gotten any Asian style glamour as part of the expansion. They have as yet never failed to deliver on providing abundant options with the base content.

This is an attempt to increase SE's revenue, which could be called greedy, however its not being paid for with sub money. Your not getting any less content than you would get if the Cash shop didn't exist. Demanding these items in addition to what we actually currently pay for with our sub is also greedy. We are demanding they give us more and get less profit for it.

People are upset because it is something they want and they cant get it without spending more money. Its a Glamour I really wanted too. However I am pretty sure SE isn't ripping anyone off here. They are just producing additional items, at additional cost, to increase revenue. If we want them to spend more on the game the revenue has to grow too.

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Originally Posted by Belhi

The Cash shop only increases this revenue and thus allows for an increase to the base budget.

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False. Yoshi himself said that cash shop income goes directly back into cash shop development and SE's pockets, to do with what they want. He also stated that the EU and NA server moves were the first times their team had been given access to those funds. And the NA server move was a critical fail for several reasons, even for Californians. By buying cash shop items, east coaster players inadvertently shot themselves in the foot.

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Originally Posted by Lunaxia

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According to data mine, just like how we confirmed RDM and SAM being a part of FFXIV come expansion, there's been data mines on the outfit coming to a summer event. So it's most likely possibly we'll be seeing the outfit come a summer event very shortly soon. The pineapple hair style was data mined and theory'd to come in the future, which it did in this new "Make it rain" gold saucer event. I wouldn't worry about it too much honestly.