New Mogstation Items (Magitek mount recolours inc.)

SE is a business and even before SE had their mog station store it was already proven by Biizzard that you can successfully have a sub mmo and sell additional mounts/pets/vanity items for extra cost and people will still play your game sub and buy items on the store. I sure would like the items to be obtainable in game as someone who plays the game, but its just the way the game industry is now a lot more microtansactions. In the end they want to make money on FFXIV which is what the main goal of a business is to make money. A lot of people wish we could go back to the time where we didn't have microtransactions and a lot of dlc in games but now that just isn't going to happen.

I'll admit that I wouldn't mind those two mounts, but I'll probably never get them.

I like all the new stuff they are putting into the mog station. While I don't partake as I'm subscribed it seems like they are putting some fun options into that process.

My boyfriend (<3) just gave me the white one as he always heard me talking about it everytime I ended up on Castrum...
It's NOT the same one Livia uses :(

Some of you may remember Livia's one. What I always loved on it was the high contrast between gold/white, looked lovely to me!
For those who need a hand, here it is:

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/...itek_Armor.jpg

And now, this is what we get:
http://i.imgur.com/egciFpA.jpg

I'm sorry but... dull looking! Looks like it's missing things! People pay for a certain thing, you can SEE the golden detail in the thumbnail, and this is what we get.

WTF!

Sorta annoyed that even the cash shop ones do not get the extra actions. So regular magitek mount can fire 2 different fun attack animations, but the commendation one, and these 2 cannot... even though they are pretty much the exact same model.
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/webroot/a.../1380453_o.gif

I will say that they ARE following a long SE tradition of milking as much as possible out of the exact same models with marginal changes. I guess there will be armored gobbues and ghost couerls available soon at this rate.

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Originally Posted by Amantisa

WTF!

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Yep, that's what stopped me from purchasing it. I thought it was Livia's, but in reality it looks downright awful... not spending even $1 on that hideous thing.

http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/63143521.jpg

Here are the angry people and here they are when they end up paying ;3

$12 is steep for recolors, IMO.
I'd pay maybe $5-7 tops for something like that.

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Originally Posted by Serret

"You have bigger issues" - Turning to personal attacks will not make your argument right :)

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If you think that was a personal attack, I would hate to live with you. It's called hyperbole -____________________- jfc

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The problem is not how much it costs. It's whether the price is fair or not.
If I turn into one of my company's loyal customers that are basically "paying the bread I eat" and decide to charge them nearly the same price as a complex item for a simple one they'll tell me I'm out of my mind, I'll lose years of trust I've built with them and they'll turn to the competition.
I don't see how it's any different here. Monetization doesn't justify everything. Customer trust is equally important to keeping your reputation and to keep them coming back and bringing more along with them.

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FFXIV is not a humongous game, it's not raking in the cash and it's still using a 15 year old pricing model. Since when has it been fair for a business to lock in it's prices for fifteen years? You're asking a lot of a company you're so loyal to in taking a financial hit so you can keep your comfy $15 a month sub. That's why you're entitled.

I am probably one of SE's biggest critics on this forum and even I understand that yoshida and Co. have bills to pay and a roof to keep over their heads. I rather the cash shop exists so that way the dev team is funded properly and not funded based on a fifteen year old pricing model. You're working adult I imagine. When budgets are underfunded, what happens? People don't get raises, they get pay cuts and in the worst scenarios they get laid off. I am a loyal SE customer too and I remember what my ff11 sub cost me for three characters back in 2003. It's about the same as I am paying now for this game.

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I'm not complaining against the cash shop though I'd say my opinion on it sits in the limbo considering we are paying a monthly sub and every single expansion. But they have been mostly fair with their model so far. Fantasia pricing for example is spot on and I think that's what gets people using them so often compared to other games where the fantasia equivalent cost 3-4 times more.
I do however reserve the right to voice my opinion and give my feedback, when after spending quite a bit of money in this game to support the devs I see something that simply isn't fairly priced as is the case with the rehues.

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Then what would have been a fair price?

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Originally Posted by Brightshadow

http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/63143521.jpg

Here are the angry people and here they are when they end up paying ;3

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nice, lol

I don't complain about cash shops, and I don't get into that discussion (unless they're something different than glamour items). I just think that you should get what you pay for, it's all.
And well, good luck blaming on people who simply can buy things they want *shrug*