Cash shop confirmed

[Saigwa]

Let me point something out:
SE has not commented on a service to change character names in over a year. That being said, myself and im sure many others, have made new characters with our desired names to play FFXIV. Because we made new characters, and event items are not tradeable or there is no sort of account warehouse, we lose the hard earned event items we have gotten in the past. I personally banked on the fact that this game gave players the ability to obtain event rewards through the relaunch of events (such as the lightning returns event that ran at least 2x this year).
This being said, with a Cash Shop, previous event items are restricted - meaning if you miss it, boo hoo for you.

Now, I wouldn't be pissed off if SE would have just addressed their status on character name changes. They give you a potion to change your character's gender ffs but well over a year and we dont even have an update on character name changes?

I know name changes have nothing to do with this topic, but it is due to the lack thereof, that I made a new character to play through the game, but doing so I had to give up my event items... and now that I have to BUY said items with money instead of patiently waiting for a possible relaunch of the event?

This DOES affect me. Even if I don't want to spend money in the cash shop, it affects me due to my situation above. It's not just about who is willing to pay or not pay for the cash shop.

But, Since it has been announced, there's nothing we can do to avoid it. We can complain as much as we want.... but this is how SE wants to do business.

[Vaer]

Could be worse. There could be lockboxes.

[saeedaisspecial]

OR " For all we/you" know, this is a drop you can get in game with an option to buy it.

Not really, during the live letter they said it would be a cash shop exclusive item.

[Starlord]

Not really, during the live letter they said it would be a cash shop exclusive item.

I would have to rewatch it, because I personally didn't here that part. Also, there was no price on it like all the other stuff that did have prices.

[Alberel]

With regards to the Odin mount, look at it this way:
They developed the Odin mount at the same time they developed Urth's Fount Trial.
At some point during the development process the question must have been raised - Do we make this a drop, similar to the Extreme Primal mounts? Or do we put it into a cash shop.
This question WILL have come up during the development process. They have clearly chosen the route that will yield them money as opposed to the more fairer for all option.

It wasn't even developed when they made the trial. The mount was an NPC-only mount for Odin ever since 2.0 added him. Odin's model is a player model on a player mount and Odin can be any race each time he spawns. That means a mount that was potentially usable by players has existed in the game since 2.0. They didn't need to do anything extra beyond link it to an item. And now they have chosen to charge us extra for something that's existed since 2.0.

[Abed_Nego]

I truly laugh at the people that are blinded and refuse to see the truth, when a game opens a cash shop something is seriously wrong. I would like to know the official amount of active online subscriptions. people already leave the game cause of lack of content and now they open a cash shop? LOL... WoW did that and lost half their subscribers, from a 10 million or so subscription they went down to like 5 million or so. good job yoshi-p! why not make it B2P or F2P if you are so found of cash shops...

if they opened a cash shop is cause they have lost a lot of subscribers so they need to get the lost revenue from somewhere, but i still see ffxiv turn into a F2P or B2P pretty soon.

[Edeline]

The only acceptable cash items are services imo. If their vanity only shop has a success, they'll keep adding more and more exclusive vanity items in the shop, taking the content out of everyone's table. You'd be paying to enter a restaurant besides eating their food, as a reference.

[Starlord]

I truly laugh at the people that are blinded and refuse to see the truth, when a game opens a cash shop something is seriously wrong. I would like to know the official amount of active online subscriptions. people already leave the game cause of lack of content and now they open a cash shop? LOL... WoW did that and lost half their subscribers, from a 10 million or so subscription they went down to like 5 million or so. good job yoshi-p! why not make it B2P or F2P if you are so found of cash shops...

if they opened a cash shop is cause they have lost a lot of subscribers so they need to get the lost revenue from somewhere, but i still see ffxiv turn into a F2P or B2P pretty soon.

I really don't understand, it's simple to just not buy the optional items. When they see that isn't working for them they will cut off the cash shop idea entirely.

Dropping your sub does not resolve this particular situation, Not buying the optional stuff does.

[Gextiv]

*In Nigerian accent*
Here we go!

Does anyone remember Tera? Eventually the cash shop in Tera was built up to support their current monetization model: F2P

Adding an official cash shop to the game will only set in the precedent for what can become...

Unfortunately from my personal observations of mmorpg forums, no amount of whining/complaining will deter a company once they've made decisions of this nature, i.e adding a cash shop to their mmorpg.

[myahele]

I am slightly surprised and disappointed that Sleipnir can be bought. Thought it'll follow the tradition of being a rare drop.

I guess they're gonna release the price and all other purchaseble items in london fan fest.