Fantasia to cost real money

[cearka]

Would you rather dish out 10$ or 50k grand company seals?

I'd rather pay for it. why would I spend hours grinding for a VANITY item if the option to spend 10 bucks for said vanity item is available?

also your charity argument makes no sense whatsoever. how bout you just cancel your sub and donate that to charity while your at it? I donate more to charity a year then most people make in a year. And if SE offers buyable fantasia, I'll applaud that decision. there nothing pay to win about fantasias.

[Derry]

Any update on when this is actually happening?

[DragonFist]

tbh this thread is kind of pointless no offence zirael foxfire but fantasia's are items that shouldnt be in game they are veteran rewards aka 1 time only if SE puts them in a cash shop its fine people have the choice to pay for it, it is an option but to put an item from the veteran rewards in game to buy for 50k gc or 50k gil thats just outright stupid on SE part there would be 0 point of veteran rewards sure adjust it slightly put some of it in cash shop things like the fantasias or extra retainers wich btw they are already doing veteran rewards would be absolutely pointless if everything could be purchased off a npc oo i know i fancy a temporary behemoth mount ill go to "said" npc and buy a 30day rental for 100k or spend 1mil on a permanent one if there is a way for SE to make money they will and i fully support it as long as it does not effect the gameplay of this game such as 10$ for allagan scepter would be a big nono because it does stuff to your stats and not beating t5 you would give false hope to other players making them think you already have a clear when u die on the twisters...5$ for a fantasia would be a hell yes why? because its optional you dont need it but its there for those that like swapping now and then and does nothing to your stats its purely a cosmetic item not to mention actually having an item like that ingame would be pretty overkill it would be abused alot atleast with cash shop it will limit how often players swap

[Khronikos]

Don't care at all. I picked my race and defined my person fully well knowing I wanted it. People who live in this game: why do you care? 2 more dollars you would spend on soda or something right? OH GOD THE HORROR! lol

And if these cost 5 bucks I just think people are generally stupid enough and addicted enough that they won't mind.

[Eifawilf]

You don't have to buy housing either. Or glamour prisms. Why don't they cost RL money too to unlock then? I'd rather pay 10$ for a big house for example instead if slaving out for 100M gil.

=_= Hold up. You're mad because instead of grinding like crazy to get one item, you have to pay real money and would rather pay real money than grind like crazy for another. Rrrriiiigggghhht.

[Nicobo]

Just want to say you can change character's birthday by Fantasia. ^^;

[Peptaru]

=_= Hold up. You're mad because instead of grinding like crazy to get one item, you have to pay real money and would rather pay real money than grind like crazy for another. Rrrriiiigggghhht.

Need to look up sarcasm.

[Peptaru]

This just in: Everyone on the internet who disagrees with you gives more to charity than most people make in a year. There are no liars on the internet. I'm a game-developer-cowboy-millionaire-astronaut, codename Duchess.

While I think it was a misguided example of something else that you could do with the money on the OP's part, the other points are valid to a certain group of people. Everyone is just blindly accepting of cash-shop bullcrap now because "that's just the way games are." No one will fight against it; maybe laziness or maybe they truthfully like cash-shop and just say otherwise.

[Wyvernheart]

This really could have been alchemy's bread and butter...

[warren-ragnarok]

Hi,
I have a question to the team running FFXIV.
Why are you adding an in game item that will cost real money? We are playing a monthly subscription game (and not the cheapest one at that) and obtaining in-game items should be included in our monthly subscription.
Adding items purchasable only with real money is done in a free-to-play MMO models, and even then you can sell item you bought with real money for in game currency to other players.
Will the cash shop be the only way to obtain Fantasia (and I'm sure other items to follow)?

Why Fantasia isn't given:
- for 50000 grand company seals
- as a recurring 3-monthly veteran reward
- on your character's birthday (every 365 days after character creation)
- when new races/genders are introduced in game (this one is a suggestion how to handle this in future)

You need to make up your mind, you either charge everyone monthly subscription fees or run cash shop with real money exclusive in game items. I'd like to have explanation about this shift in your business model.

not sure if you know what supply and demand is, or capitalism for that matter. and my personal opinion, i really dont care how much they charge for fantasia, its aesthetics.....and the name change one shouldnt exist in my opinion. if you really want to make an impact, get everyone to NOT buy those items or services, eventually some of them SE will give for free, because they cant make money off of it.