Anyone Pro cash shop?

[Gramul]

I'm not really sure why some people are fine with being charged on top of their subscription for the kind of content that has been a driving force for progression, trade, crafting, and intentional instance revisits.

I don't really get why people are fine with double dipping period. It's a very blatantly greed driven practice, and accepting it only encourages more consumer manipulation practices. They only have to change a little bit at a time. Get you acclimated. Let you find excuses for the small stuff till you're eventually totally fine with it. It's happened before with other industries.
Hell, did you know cable used to be commercial free?

Microtransactions are so crazy overpriced 99% of the time too. 1/100th of an expansion pack for 1/5th the price? It doesn't take a physicist to see that doesn't match up. And adding that with a subscription is just clawing through the sofas.
I cannot abide by this sort of behavior at all. Even if XIV turned out to be my favorite game of all time. I can't see double dipping as anything but a seriously low practice all around.
Why would you allow that to happen to you?

[Jynx]

I'm not really sure why some people are fine with being charged on top of their subscription for the kind of content that has been a driving force for progression, trade, crafting, and intentional instance revisits.

Gosh darn it Gramul, I broke my mouse from how hard I hit the like button. You have pretty much summed up all my worries in the first paragraph.

[PrimeEvilPanda]

I'm not really sure why some people are fine with being charged on top of their subscription for the kind of content that has been a driving force for progression, trade, crafting, and intentional instance revisits.

Would it make you feel any better if I told you that I and many others don't even re-visit some of the old stuff any more due to the fact that RNG is pissantly cruel to the point I have thus given up in farming certain vanity items after X-amount of weeks/months and even then, never even to see the drops? As opposed to a work colleague and friend of mine on my server (who shall remain nameless less I throw him down the rubbish shoot again) who farmed the same instance as me yet received said-vanity item in half the time....

And to top it off, his comments of "if you farm it enough, or work hard enough, you'll earn it" - hmmm...yes because apparently my skills as a player in keeping everyone alive and doing a really good job at a fight somehow coerces RNJesus to bless me with a drop....

[Seiryuukishi]

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Because when it comes down to it, it's not our choice to make. Sure we can leave the game but that doesn't make it go away. It is nice when companies listen to their consumers but they are not obliged to do so. SE owns this game and everything it entails. We are just along for the ride if we so choose. Can't make any simpler than that.

[Gramul]

Because when it comes down to it, it's not our choice to make. Sure we can leave the game but that doesn't make it go away. It is nice when companies listen to their consumers but they are not obliged to do so. SE owns this game and everything it entails. We are just along for the ride if we so choose. Can't make any simpler than that.

i can't embrace that kind of defeatist mindset. Too much passion and pride. It's a medical condition.