Correction of prices for optional items

[LittleArrow]

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I completely agree with you. I understand players put a lot of weight into non-vanity content, but not everyone in the community feels this way. I know plenty of endgame people that use glamour; vanity has to have some sort of merit. I know I specifically avoid F2P games in order to not have to deal with a wealthy few dictating what the company will work on in order to provide cash shop exclusive content. Time and time again these companies have proven once they're offered an inch they'll take a mile. Even WoW promised it would only be a vanity cash shop, they offer now offer xp boosts and basic guild services we enjoy today like simply changing their guild name.

Whether a cash shop is acceptable or not is a debate that the MMO community has had for years now. However, questioning these business practices is a healthy exchange between a business and it's consumer.

[Amnesia]

Last time I checked the Nutkin pet was 7mil on excal (more than a small house). That clearly shows pets are a big part of the game to a lot of people. (...) many people get a lot of enjoyment out of hunting these things down and finally getting the drop.

So you're saying that you think minions should be marked as untradeable? After all, if people buy them from the MB, then they're not hunting them down themselves...

...and the CE minions are already only available via an extra cash purchase. What's the difference?

[Noxifer]

[Minion] Y'shtola 3.50 EUR 2.88 GBP
[Minion] Yda 3.50 EUR 2.88 GBP
[Minion] Papalymo 3.50 EUR 2.88 GBP
[Armor] Pumpkin Head 2.10 EUR 1.73 GBP
[Armor] Unripened Pumpkin Head 2.10 EUR 1.73 GBP
[Armor] White Pumpkin Head 2.10 EUR 1.73 GBP
[Armor] Ripened Pumpkin Head 2.10 EUR 1.73 GBP
[Armor] The Howling Spirit 3.50 EUR 2.88 GBP
[Armor] The Wailing Spirit 3.50 EUR 2.88 GBP

So... If I were to buy one of each of those, it'd come to €25.90.

With a hop over to SE's digital download version of FFXIV, the full game, I can see that it would cost me €19.99.

How is it in any sense reasonable that NINE (9) single items, for one character, should be more expensive than a full-size game? O.o

[gorror]

Gamers have got to be some, if not THE, worst consumers.

Srsly, why are people exited to be milked?

[maxthunder1]

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I have for some time really wondered if ARR is actually operating at a loss. Now lets go back to the official info Yoshi posted, he announced that as of Nov 2013 that the game has 600k subscribers, jan/feb 2014 the game has 500k subscribers, than all of a sudden Yoshi stopped releaseing how many subscriptions the game has. A little over 1 year after launch they announce a cash shop. So the million dollar question would be how well is ARR doing? All I know is every game that has offered a cash shop pretty much has failed and gone F2P so is this what is happening to ARR? If the game is loseing subscriptions than maybe they need to provide better content, instead of providing a cash shop to milk players.

[Mariel_Crystallie]

please include alternative quests for rewards like minion (yda and friends) & slepinir...

[Miya_Carbuncle]

Gamers have got to be some, if not THE, worst consumers.

Srsly, why are people exited to be milked?

I'm looking forward to apparently being able to get the event items I've missed during my break (not all of them, just the ones I want). Whether it costs money or not is irrelevant as long as it isn't too pricey for me.