Cash shop confirmed

[Amaret]

Considering they just told us that they were short on budget, as a reason why they couldn't give us adequate personal housing, im guessing they overpaid for their QA team to release bug free content or something.

Wow. Do you guys rly believe the 12 bucks you pay in month only goes into development of ff xiv? just wow.

So the whole thing i get is, that ppl are getting buthurt about a vanity item behind a paywall? A thing which existed since day 1 (CE) in FFXIV?
Gonna be fun to see 90% complaining here running around with Sleipnir next week.

[mekia]

Wow. Do you guys rly believe the 12 bucks you pay in month only goes into development of ff xiv? just wow.

So the whole thing i get is, that ppl are getting buthurt about a vanity item behind a paywall? A thing which existed since day 1 (CE) in FFXIV?
Gonna be fun to see 90% complaining here running around with Sleipnir next week.

Pretty much this, nothing to add.

[Barboron]

Wow. Do you guys rly believe the 12 bucks you pay in month only goes into development of ff xiv? just wow.

So the whole thing i get is, that ppl are getting buthurt about a vanity item behind a paywall? A thing which existed since day 1 (CE) in FFXIV?
Gonna be fun to see 90% complaining here running around with Sleipnir next week.

The difference with CE items, artbook, plush moogle and so on is that you get something physical too. Also, considering the CE was also the launch of the game so it would have been initial funding since they wouldn't have had subscriptions. But now we are actually paying them on a monthly basis. SE are throwing out that big 2.5million players number, not us. I would be inclined to believe that's not true though but it's their number.

"I don't have moneyz for Sleipnir" "I'm gonna leave beacause i see the paywall now not like they already did it with cd's" "The next patches only will be for Cash Shop!" "ITS GONNA BE F2P IN FEW MONTHS, I CALL IT NOW!1!!1!11" "It's going to be p2w!" "I pay 12 bucks, the Dev's life belongs to me".

Thats what i read.

If that's all you read, then you are not very business orientated. A cash shop proves to be of huge potential for vanity items. If you are going to reply with the "oh, it's just vanity" then you are leaving it safe to assume that the only thing you see doing in this game is raids. Yoshi-p mentioned in previous live letters end-game includes more than raids, it's crafting, gathering, and any other content beyond the concluded story line. To me, this includes vanity items.

Want to say that it's optional? Well....so is coil. Forums are optional too, how about we charge €1 per post?