Why does an ingame poster cost $10?

I think you can get like... real life physical posters for cheaper than that. :v Who decides on these prices?

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Honestly the prices on the housing items continuously baffle me. I don't agree with the prices on mounts and outfits, and before anyone says it yes I don't buy them and am voting with my wallet already, but I can at least understand them given their various uses. Housing items however? People generally want to buy more than one of them if they use them, and for something like these huge posters I could definitely see them being a hot commodity if they were a lot cheaper depending upon the color they have splashed on the back. A lot of housing designers use the back of the existing posters in the game to do some really cool things with the housing glitches we have available, but I can't see many people breaking down to buy these for that purpose when the price is so prohibitive.

They are hand-painted by Alphinaud. Minimum wages and all.

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Originally Posted by Lacan

Who decides on these prices?

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They are what they think they can get away with.

This is actually a good question..

Because there are people stupid enough to buy it, and there is no limit to the amount of money the shareholders want.

Honestly? The only one I would maybe consider buying is the Shadowbringers poster. But even then I would wait until it was on sale or something. They know people will pay these prices, otherwise they wouldn't list them so high.

I know right? I'm surprised they didn't charge $14.99.

And I am sure they are being sold at that price. Expensive pixels but people buying these are "whales". That type of content is made for them and priced for them.

A Real Life Poster costs less...

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Originally Posted by Caitlyn

A Real Life Poster costs less...

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Depends on the type of poster or wall hanging. Something that is framed in some fashion tends to be more expensive most of the time.

Because people are dumb enough to pay it. As long as that is a thing stuff like this will be there for them to buy.

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Originally Posted by RicaRuin

They are hand-painted by Alphinaud. Minimum wages and all.

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Tataru is still making him work to pay off Gosetsu's sword.

I would rather have posters than mounts and everyone is buying mounts from mogstation.

Because people are willing to buy it. I mean you have people who shelled out $30 for an in game whale mount. A whale for a whale lol... perfectly balanced as all things should be xD

When i have seen new optional items i was hoping they added a nice outgit with real heels, but what we got everybody know... a texture copy-paste image in low resolution. I want hilda hairs is that a lot to ask for..

Remember to vote with your wallet and that this, as well as everything in the OPTIONAL ITEMS list are just that, optional.

I'm not saying they're priced well, or even reasonably. I haven't purchased any ever myself (I also have never purchased loot boxes or the like myself in any other game), but people like me and people in this thread (seemingly) aren't the targets for these items.

The Mogstation was never too bad until Stormblood, where it seemed like continuously pushed the line just to see how much they could get. Prior to that, we saw a couple mounts, cosplay glamours and only a couple Chinese exclusives. Stormblood practically doubled everything while also introducing emotes. I wager they ran out of emote ideas, thus posters are their new cash grab.

That all said, the housing consumables have always been laughably overpriced.

Yeah that's a really absurd price but they probably have fancy spreadsheets and pie charts that illustrate how much people are willing to spend on various things like mounts and outfits. They're also over charging for a a facial cosmetic, you know, something that should already be available via the aesthetician. It's fairly obvious they're running out of ideas.

I bet its the the hole marketing trick here you get 1 for 10 dollars but if you pay just 20 dollars you get all 4.

20 dollars still a bit high even for 4 of them though.

Lets take the mog station questions a bit further. Why are there single-character items when they obviously have the ability to make everything account-wide. Is just because you can do everything on one character seriously a valid excuse? Some people like to play on separate data centers, since SE feels its neccessary for each region to have around 2 each.

Lets go even further. Why do I have to pay for separate male/female versions of the same item when the calamity dude used to swap outfits between genders in game?

Most people have hit the nail on the head: Money.

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Originally Posted by KitingGenbu

Lets take the mog station questions a bit further. Why are there single-character items when they obviously have the ability to make everything account-wide. Is just because you can do everything on one character seriously a valid excuse? Some people like to play on separate data centers, since SE feels its neccessary for each region to have around 2 each.

Lets go even further. Why do I have to pay for separate male/female versions of the same item when the calamity dude used to swap outfits between genders in game?

Most people have hit the nail on the head: Money.

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Furthermore, they could take all the transaction history of each account and just make all items we already bought account wide.

Is there a poster for sale that hasn't been supplied at one point in the games history ingame for free?

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Originally Posted by Canadane

Is there a poster for sale that hasn't been supplied at one point in the games history ingame for free?

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ShB one defiently hasn't
others i believe we have had at one point

I wish I had those posters... in real life.

Hey, look: a not-so-bad question from Lacan.

Honestly, I generally don’t care about the prices of things in the Mogstation—I buy things I want and other things I don’t. I’ve been understanding of account-wide mounts being $24.99~$29.99 since they are always available for all current and future characters on a service account. The Chinese and Korean outfits apparently cost more for their original market than what we pay, and I never expect to get items for free that other audiences have to pay for.

But I do think that the asking price for the new expansion artwork is a bit much. It seems like a “deal” to get all 4 for $20 USD ($5 USD each)—but individually at $10 USD each is a bit too much to ask. Which really sucks, because I like the Shadowbringers poster a lot, and it’s really the only one I want. I’m not paying $10 USD for it though—I can buy lunch 2 days a week for that on campus, and I like my lunch more.

If you look closely at the image though, these aren't actually posters, these furnishings are actually depicted as paintings in frames, so they're more 'fancier' (they also have different names to the 'regular' posters available earlier in the year during the Rising event). So I guess the frames mean they warrant a higher price. *Shrugs* Capitalism is a harsh mistress I guess...

Because they are optional and well ... you really need those ugly posters?

I won't be buying them.
Then again I wouldn't even buy them if it was 0.1.
Would only use it if it was free.

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Originally Posted by RicaRuin

They are hand-painted by Alphinaud. Minimum wages and all.

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Support starv.... well, trust fund baby artists. :D

Because idiots buy them for some reason. They must be super terrible with money IRL or have more cash than brains. Long as these chumps keep buying this stuff at inflated prices /shrug

If my subscription doesn't cover it and it's not an expansion. I don't have it, the mogstation is way too expensive.

Wait, I also bought an external bonding ceremony for my wife and I. But that was fun and the ring is awesome, we use it all the time.

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Originally Posted by Lacan

I think you can get like... real life physical posters for cheaper than that. :v Who decides on these prices?

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I'd maybe buy them if they were like $2. $10 though? Nah. I'll pass.

Prices have slowly crept up over years for them see what they can get away with mounts are getting to price of costing more then the game+expansions, not only the price issue but also less & less Account wide stuff no more Gender swapping gear at Salvager like lot of old mog station gear.. so not surprising see such ridiculous prices for slightly scaled up & framed images.

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Originally Posted by Lord_Umbra

no more Gender swapping gear at Salvager like lot of old mog station gear..

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I still do not understand why we can't do that. I mean either let us trade everything or nothing. Not just some glamour pieces from 4+ years ago events

I agree OP, they really feel quite overpriced for something which was once free ingame thus should have costed them no money to put it on the store...yet what I find even worse, is that they changed the posters for the cash shop. They are much bigger and nicer looking..why change them?