I am not buying outfits, mounts or minions until there is an account wide option

I am not buying outfits, mounts or minions until there is an account wide option.

Add a 20-30% up charge option in the Mog station, but until one exists you are only getting my subscription fee.

I enjoy playing alts but I refuse to spend nearly 20 dollars on something that only one character can use.

Thank you for sharing. I'm sure there are enough players who don't mind spending the money of each of their characters that SE won't miss your money.

I don't understand why so many people think we care their financial choices lol.

I think if you said "I think an account-wide feature would be good!" then you'd probably get a solid backing. But by starting off in a manner that makes you seem really entitled, I feel like you're disadvantaging yourself from the start.

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Originally Posted by Popotato

I don't understand why so many people think we care their financial choices lol

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They don't? They're hoping SE - ya know, the company who runs these forums and has declared them to be an official way of giving SE feedback - will see it. Just an idea.

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Originally Posted by BillyKaplan

They don't? They're hoping SE - ya know, the company who runs these forums and has declared them to be an official way of giving SE feedback - will see it. Just an idea.

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Which is fair enough imo, but I feel like there's a better manner to get the point across.

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Originally Posted by illgot

Add a 20-30% up charge option in the Mog station

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the thing are already damn expensive,13E for some cloth,and you want 20-30% more ? people dunno what to do with their money

They are already far too expensive.
They should be account wide at this (or lower) price and cheaper at one character only.

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Originally Posted by Popotato

I don't understand why so many people think we care their financial choices lol.

I think if you said "I think an account-wide feature would be good!" then you'd probably get a solid backing. But by starting off in a manner that makes you seem really entitled, I feel like you're disadvantaging yourself from the start.

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My financial situation has nothing to do with the lack of an account wide option or my wanting one. The idea of having to repurchase an outfit I already purchased for every single character (16 so far) is off putting at best. Without an option to purchase account wide, the items in the Mog station are a complete turn off for my game style.

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Originally Posted by Gleipni

the thing are already damn expensive,13E for some cloth,and you want 20-30% more ? people dunno what to do with their money

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I've happily spent 50-100 dollars for account wide packages in other games. It's the fact that I can create a character on any server at any time and still have access to all the items I purchased.

Having the items locked to just one character makes me feel trapped on that single character. And the part of me that hates waste balks at the idea of buying the same digital item (less consumables) for every single character I create.

Yeah I said the same when playing BDO, others said the same but there was way too many people supporting their BS p2w system and single character shop items. At least in BDO you could sell what you buy in the market and make what is equivalent to gil there. No matter how you feel about the principle of the matter, they will continue to do it because it's amazing how much money they make from this practice. I don't mind so much, it's their money to spend and it supports further development of the game. My only wish is that they permit cash items to be sold on the marketbaord.

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Originally Posted by Popotato

Which is fair enough imo, but I feel like there's a better manner to get the point across.

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The company is trying to milk extra money and in reaction to this business model the OP won't give them any money. There is no need to sugar coat it because it's a neutral statement which isn't directed at any individuals.

All promotional, Mog Station and other exclusive items should be account wide imo. I only play one character so it doesn't affect me but not having account wide achievements and items is a bit sad in this day and age.

Fortunately there are only 3 unique Cash shop mounts. The rest are recolors or from the korean/chinese servers (and those are account wide!)

Yeah, when we are paying extra to have alts, but there are so fun QoL things for us, it really is off putting. I don't buy the outfits from the MS, only the mounts.

When you have 16 characters, it's just not practical to buy the outfits that many times.

Yoshida already addressed this issue in the past. The reason why they stopped making everything in the cash shop account wide was because the list of items that players receive when creating a new character has to be stored in a database and that data was becoming really over bloated so they had to stop storing more information in that database (i.e stop making items account bound).

So because the issue is apparently a technical limitation, it's unlikely they will ever revert back to having mostly everything being account bound.

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Originally Posted by Zetsumei_Tsunarashi

Yoshida already addressed this issue in the past. The reason why they stopped making everything in the cash shop account wide was because the list of items that players receive when creating a new character has to be stored in a database and that data was becoming really over bloated so they had to stop storing more information in that database (i.e stop making items account bound).

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Except since he said that, they released two Carbuncle mounts, a panda mount, the segway mount... all account wide.

Edit: And they were also talking about why they stopped making bonus items that came with physical product account-wide, not mogstation items.

I understand them turning it off for mog shop purchases if that really was the case however, them turning it off for delux goods like the artbooks and orchestra CDs is what really gets me. If you aren't going to make them account wide then stop them completely. Or do you really need to try that hard to lure people into buying the physical goodies?

Only a matter of time till the next 130$ statue has a limit one emote.

This is why I'm glad I really only play one character for the most part, as well as not bothered by both of my characters not having all the same stuff. If anything it makes them a little more unique from each other, giving a little more incentive to keep them both around.

I agree that most should be account wide but I also think it's a great deterrent to keep me from just buying things from the shop, lol. I think I have bought three staves and I wish they were account wide but I love them regardless. The rest have been the AW mounts. Won't buy a mount unless it is anyway in any game.

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Originally Posted by Popotato

I don't understand why so many people think we care their financial choices lol.

I think if you said "I think an account-wide feature would be good!" then you'd probably get a solid backing. But by starting off in a manner that makes you seem really entitled, I feel like you're disadvantaging yourself from the start.

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Narcissism. It's the new way for young people. Blame social media like Facebook, Instagram, etc.

Please like and comment in the following thread here. This thread does a very good job summing up why the Cash Shop needs all items to be allocated account-wide, and Square-Enix says they take more stock into forum threads when they are bigger and half more upvotes.

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Originally Posted by illgot

I am not buying outfits, mounts or minions until there is an account wide option.

Add a 20-30% up charge option in the Mog station, but until one exists you are only getting my subscription fee.

I enjoy playing alts but I refuse to spend nearly 20 dollars on something that only one character can use.

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I fully agree with you!

But then I read you're happily spending 20-30% more?!?! Mogstation is already overpriced, no need to spend or even REQUEST for more.

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Originally Posted by illgot

I am not buying outfits, mounts or minions until there is an account wide option.

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Do you currently buy the stuff that is account wide? The only feedback I could see really changing this is if account-wide stuff sells far better than the rest. Boycotting everything may not send the same message.