Mounts and Minions to buy for charity.

[ApolloGenX]

If you are buying an item in game... seems like charity is just a lame excuse you are using to feel good about RMT.

If you want to help people, then help people.

[misterrpg]

This game is going F2P or at least a "cash shop". Eventually it will. It's inevitable. They want this game to be super casual.

and when it does go F2P, I'm out.

[Hanemakikaze]

How do you guys feel about buying mounts and minions (when they have a online store for XIV) to help a good cause?

Nope, leave that to humble indie bundles as far as charity goes.

[Xieveral]

Using WoW as an example, only a small portion of the money from their charity items goes to Make a Wish, the rest is taken as profit. The money that did get sent as charity goes into CEO pockets and advertisement. Make a Wish takes the credit but does none of the work. But you got delusional warm fuzzies and digital swag out of it so no big deal, yeah?

If you want to do good, volunteer and donate items, not money. If you want to feel good, throw your money at "charities".

[faris]

No way. The type of people which only actually donate to causes to get something that says "I donated to this cause!" make me sick.

[Meirii]

i would think of it as a donation since i usually donate to something once a month like St. annes orphanage. I mean its going to people in need then I can do my once a month good sumaritian thing, but i alway make sure i donate it to someone giving more than 70% if not all to the chairty

[DragonFlyy]

No - don't want any kind of cash shop. I don't want to pay x amount of extra monies for mounts, minions, or stupid hats.

Just out of curiosity, if they add a cash shop that sells only vanity items, why would you have to use it?

[Ravinous]

This game is going F2P or at least a "cash shop". Eventually it will. It's inevitable. They want this game to be super casual.

and when it does go F2P, I'm out.

It has already been stated a year ago from Yoshi that the game will never go F2P. The game is solely backed by SE, and SE alone they didn't bring investors to front money or borrow money to make the game. So they have no reason to take FFXIV:ARR to a F2P model just to make money.

http://www.examiner.com/article/squa...t-free-to-play

On top of that Yoshi defended the subscription model in an interview back six months ago. Between these two articles I don't see SE taking the game to F2P.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/17/fi...lay-exclusive/

[neorei]

I like how a simple questions turns a thread into a prove your wrong/flame war/go back to wow thread. lol it was just a simple question.

[Cigaran]

I see no problems with this personally. There are several charities that my wife and I regularly donate to that we would never have heard of if it hadn't been promoted by something or someone we followed. So long as it's a non-discriminatory charity that doesn't end up using most of the donations for operational costs, then I'll gladly add one more to the list that we give to.