Cash shop confirmed

[Lux_Rayna]

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Well here's the reality: the subscription model is no longer effective due to a saturated market. A game will not generate the revenue it needs to on a sub-only model in this day and age. It just won't happen unless its extraordinarily superior to everything else. The fact of the matter is that cash shops generate more revenue. People like going to the store and buying things that other ppl can't. Its human nature, and one major reason we still have shopping malls. Since my interest is in the game, I am in favor of whatever will keep the game both enjoyable and alive.

The benefit of cash shops are that: (a) more content can be released (b) more revenue has a positive impact on the game (c) more diversity/customization. These are all wins to me.

[SinisterIsBack]

That's not my reality, at all.

Fixed it for you...

[SinisterIsBack]

Uhhh... You didn't "fix" anything.

Before you edited all that info in it made perfect sense.

It doesn't have to be "extraordinarily superior to everything else". It just has to be good enough to pay a subscription for, to a large enough number of people

This is not an objective fact, you don't run the company, you don't pay the bills there. This is "your opinion"

You seem to forget that companies tend to want to make money, and being "just enough" isn't going to be good enough. If there isn't a profit, companies wouldn't do it

[Farah]

Vanity items are a large part of the game for me, so it is annoying to see items that we could previously earn just by playing the game added now to a cash shop. It makes me worried that they will just keep adding vanity items to the shop instead of making them available in the game.

I came from a F2P game, so I'm not unfamiliar with the cash shop. It starts out vanity, then it slowly adds buffs, then adds end game armor. I don't think FFXIV would go that far (atleast I hope not). In other games, you could purchase the items off other players for in game coin. It would be a ridiculous amount of in game coin, but at least it made items available to people who didn't want to purchase it with rl money. I feel ffxiv wont do that either however, since they seem to make most items like that not tradable.