Cash shop confirmed

[Xairos]

You people just want this game to sit in a sad little corner ignored by the MMO world so you can enjoy it all to yourselves, dont you?

Income helps FFXIV. The game we all play(ed). How can you not want this game to do well?

[Barboron]

What the crap.

Insult? LOL.

Let SE make extra $$ on the people who're willing to buy, it further assists development of the game.

No harm done if it isn't P2W.

Well if they want to make money to further develop, then since I am paying them too I want them to spend their time developing stuff for everyone and not spend them time that they are already getting paid for, with our money, to charge us more.

We're paying for future content and development already, cash shops are no excuse.

[Fyrebrand]

Not pay-to-win yet. However, for many players, having prestigious gear skins or minions is as much a part of "winning" in an MMORPG as some stats and numbers.

In a retail, subscription-based game, a cash shop is essentially just a huge, cynical middle finger to its players. It's an ever-growing list of items that Square Enix is spending their time creating, and very easily could have just put in the base game for players to earn, but instead are only for those they can gouge for an extra few bucks.

[Roris]

You don't like the game or don't like the cash shop? There a difference.

The cash shop is linked to the game, it's a part of it, wouldn't be surprised if it got eventually integrated into the game's UI.

[Black91CRX]

Don't like it? Don't buy it.

[Amused]

Get over yourselves, just don't buy if you are against it. Doesn't harm anyone.

It harms my enjoyment of the game, as I'm sure it does many others.

[Starlord]

That you don't like the direction a game is heading and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Yeah, but you're tying in the Optional "Vanity stuff" as some of the direction of the game. It's not even close to the direction of the game. P2W stuff would be, but not Optional Vanity stuff.

[chocomaid]

Dunno what the fuss is all about, the cash shop is for items that doesn't affect gameplay at all. To all the people complaining, do you also complain about concession stands in a cinema? You don't have to buy popcorn, you can watch the movie with out without it. Buying popcorn won't change the outcome of the movie.

[charlemagne]

Don't like it? Don't buy it.

We've paid our subscription, always thought that mean't we'd already bought it.

[Fayto]

It harms my enjoyment of the game, as I'm sure it does many others.

Again, get off your high horse. Luxury items does not harm your enjoyment, this is what we call being greedy.

So you won't mind if they do this with any future items? So say... they make some awesome new raid loot then instead replace all the skins on them with crappy level 1 skins and instead sell the skins as glamour items in the cash shop. You wouldn't mind that?

Because that is precisely what they have done here. You seriously don't see the problem with this? They are cutting content they developed using YOUR SUB and asking people to pay AGAIN for it.

I don't, because it is items I do not need to play the game.