Cash shop confirmed

[Tupsi]

Let me add to this. Another thing that really really bothers me is something I call "cash equality". I pay ~$120 for a year's worth of FFXIV. When the cash shop keeps expanding, its likely I will be paying $120 or triple that for every item in the shop.

Then SE succeeded - They're a business and they're making money...what's the problem? They're not your BFF from high school

It would be great if someone from SE could go on record as saying all the cash shop proceeds are going back into the development of FFXIV.

Business doesn't work that way - Money the company SE makes goes to:

- Development of projects in general
- Employee Paychecks
- Paying investors (depending on projects)
- Maintenance on their MMOs and other online services
- R&D
- Etc.

Your sub for XIV already doesn't 100% go to development of XIV, just like the billions FFXI made SE, they likely allocate money to other projects which is how a business works - especially software development.

In other words, if the dozens of items in the cash shop directly meant hours and hours of more content in FFXIV proper,

Ask yourself this question: What has the quality of 2.1 - 2.4 (soon) update been in your opinion? If you think it's been the best ever, the cash shop won't improve nor degrade that as that is how they plan the development of this game. If you find it to be..pretty meh, that's not going to change with a cash shop because it's up to Yoshida what the updates are like - they could have unlimited money and not 1 cent of it could go towards "extra development".

[Vhailor]

Then SE succeeded - They're a business and they're making money...what's the problem? They're not your BFF from high school

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Business doesn't work that way - Money the company SE makes goes to:

- Development of projects in general
- Employee Paychecks
- Paying investors (depending on projects)
- Maintenance on their MMOs and other online services
- R&D
- Etc.

You are right in both respects, but your post acts as if the potential consumer doesn't have a valid right to criticize a company's pricing scheme. Just because it's a company's goal to make money, and just because they allocate their revenue according to their own decisions rather than those of the customer, doesn't mean we have to like / support the model we see.

Quesse is clearly one player, like myself, who would be a lot more receptive to the idea of a cash shop if we knew its proceeds were going to be used to improve FFXIV on top of the revenue already allocated to its continued maintenance. The concern about a few dozen vanity items in the cash shop costing as much as an entire year-long subscription to the game is also a valid one on the part of the consumer. We get a voice too - and we have every right to imply to SE that we're unhappy about, and/or planning to quit over, certain business decisions.