Cash shop confirmed

[Vhailor]

Critiquing a pricing scheme and shouting "OMG SLIPPERY SLOPEEEE!" are different things.

Plus, even if they said "All cash shop money is going right into FF14", people would just scream "OMG F2P!!".

Reread Quesse's original post that Tupsi was commenting on. Clearly it wasn't an "OMG SLIPPERY SLOPEEEE!" style of complaint.

Edit: I can't comment obviously on whether or not people would react to funds being reinvested in the way you indicated. You're also pointlessly generalizing a lot of calm and reasonable disagreements in a somewhat-insulting way, which adds absolutely nothing positive to the conversation. Most people who are concerned about the cash shop being a slippery slope for the game have stated their opinion calmly; not all of them, but most, and it's a valid concern. Similarly for those concerned about XIV becoming a F2P title (though I really haven't seen this crop up as much).

There was a response from about cashshop: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ning_ceremony/

Good info - hopefully SE releases something official soon in this regard. Still wouldn't make a difference for me personally, of course, but my issue with the cash shop (and multiple other aspects of the game) differ somewhat from the majority that I've seen posting in this thread. I think if this became an official announcement, it would greatly limit any theoretical loss of subscriptions that the cash shop might otherwise result in.