Cash Shop Overpriced?

[Thistledown]

I want: Yukata, Onion Doublet Set and new hairstyles that are applicable across all gender and races, and looks cool.

[Marisela]

The mount is the same price as some of the other Game cash shop out there, Tera, Aion, Warcraft, etc. It's a bit high I agree. Should have been like $19.99 make more sense.

[maxthunder1]

As I said in another thread that mount better do a lot more (if you know what I mean) for that price. You have to be crazy to buy that thing for 24.00. Talk about milking customers this is just insane. Hopefully very few players will actually buy any of that garbage and they have to take it down.

[SoulKhan]

beautifully said

the people saying "its fine because its just vanity" are pure stupid.
this game is highly influenced by vanity...a majority of my friends who dont raid are into vanity and this game has loads of vanity, housing is vanity. cool clothes and gear are vanity, different mount skins are vanity.
vanity has a high place in not just this game but ALOT of games, MMOs especially...and when you lock vanity behind a paywall then you basically lock a huge part of a game for alot of people behind that very paywall.
there is no way to justify a pay to play game having a cash shop, no way at all.
you can try but you will fail.
"just vanity " is a terrible reason.
improving the overall quality of the game is a terrible reason (because if they cant improve the game with 15$/m + 1million+ subs then wtf are they doing?)
please, stop acting like everything yoshi or SE does is a gift from garuda, our lord and saviour..because tbh its not.

[Tupsi]

the people saying "its fine because its just vanity" are pure stupid.
this game is highly influenced by vanity...

You're right - you do Coil for Vanity.
Primal Ex for Vanity.
You also did most content prior to the glamor system being introduced for Vanity.

(Not really.)

there is no way to justify a pay to play game having a cash shop, no way at all.

Worked for Blizzard for years, and everyone was saying how WoW is the "standard" and that XIV should be copying it.

[Yshnal]

You're right - you do Coil for Vanity.
Primal Ex for Vanity.
You also did most content prior to the glamor system being introduced for Vanity.

(Not really.)

Way to lose the point. As usual.

Re-read everything that Leera wrote after what you selectively quoted.

[Jandor]

You're right - you do Coil for Vanity.
Primal Ex for Vanity.
You also did most content prior to the glamor system being introduced for Vanity.

(Not really.)

Yes really.

[StrejdaTom]

Way to lose the point. As usual.

Re-read everything that Leera wrote after what you selectively quoted.

I believe that reacting to this troll is just a waste of time. Always uses only the part of truth which is profitable for him/her. Just ignore that person. )

On topic: Cash shop is overpriced for me. I dont care how much items cost in other games. I paid for digital collectors and I would gladly do it again, because the amount of items for the price seemd OK to me. Maybe one day, when they do some discount day and sell Sleipnir for lower price, I will get it.

[tocsin]

improving the overall quality of the game is a terrible reason (because if they cant improve the game with 15$/m + 1million+ subs then wtf are they doing?)
please, stop acting like everything yoshi or SE does is a gift from garuda, our lord and saviour..because tbh its not.

Please provide details on your numbers. I would like to see a source.

Especially since I posted a source not 4 pages ago, detailing mathematically that ffxiv cannot have more than 300k subs atm.

Yoshi-P has already detailed via interview that proceeds from the Cash Shop will be directly going toward upgrading servers for Housing. they cannot afford it otherwise, and based on their investor reports, I can see why.

edit: not in this thread. my bad, posting in multiple "Cash shop makes me butthurt" threads at once.

[Tupsi]

I believe that reacting to this troll is just a waste of time. Always uses only the part of truth which is profitable for him/her. Just ignore that person. )

On topic: Cash shop is overpriced for me. I dont care how much items cost in other games. I paid for digital collectors and I would gladly do it again, because the amount of items for the price seemd OK to me. Maybe one day, when they do some discount day and sell Sleipnir for lower price, I will get it.

Personally attacking someone while calling them a "troll" seems a bit hypocritical.

Re-read everything that Leera wrote after what you selectively quoted.

I did read it, there was no point made because there already is a paywall - The subscription fee. The only point in that post made was using the assumption you can't obtain any vanity items in-game, yet I just crafted up quite a bit - didn't cost a cent outside of my sub fee.