Do you want a cash shop in FFXIV?

thanks for the offer but i have to pass, no cash shop.

So tired of cash shops. Almost every damn game is adopting this and I really hope SE keeps this OUT of FFXIV.

Making the game F2P and adding a cash shop is actually better business than having a Sub with no cash shop. Micro transactions have been proven to generate more income from the game than simply having a Sub. For example, people spend $10+ on a character or character Skin in League of legends (some skins cost $20) so already in that one transaction they made the profit of one to two months Sub fee. Then again, having a Sub AND a Cash shop trumps either.

with what diablo3 is doing (legal player run real cash money auction house, that they charge fee's on)i can only assume that if it does well, even if it's not a real mmo that many mmo's will start doing this as well. not sure how that would work too, all these mmo's are pushing casual at the moment, but second they change to a model where drops need to be more rare for them to make money... things might take a new turn for content difficulty again. this is all saying that diablo3 does so well that bliz starts adding it to all there mmo's and others begin to copy too. i think from what i understand another mmo did this and didn't do well either way so maybe not.

cash shop for items that dont effect the balance of the game is ok. dont want pay to win.

personally i don't want cosmetics to pay either, i'm hear to play the game and earn everything and i'm like a baby in the candy isle, i want what i see and i want it all. but i want to earn it threw the game not pay for it. ah the days when u won the new colors and costumes and things in game and not had to buy them, granted they much cooler looking ones then they try charge for it but ...anywho. also granted if ffxi had 3 mini expansions near the end, i can assume this game wanted to go a route of many more of those types ...but game went sour so might be long time b4 they try to suck us dry with mini's and 10dollar mounts. heck they even gonna take our 200spaces away... why? more for retainer sales then anything really i'm sure. haters gonna hate, /hate.

No thank you

Nah, I'm fine as it is. I'll pay my monthly subscription and have the option of having "everything" by my skill/time/etc and not by my wallet.

Yeah Im going to have to disagree with the op. A cash shop would be devastating to the ff14 community. I for one would be extremely against it but I probably would still play FML

no it should not be in a P2P game.