Cash Shop: Stifling development.

[Zumi]

It's a fact nobody wants to have to pay more money for a product in this case a game. The thing is the way companies make money a lot of money on games these days involves micro transactions. We are in the dlc / mobile in app purchase / micro transaction game era where companies are expected to make supplemental income on optional content and that isn't going to change any time soon. Back in the 80s and 90s when you bought a Nintendo game and you got the whole game for the purchase price that really doesn't exist anymore because almost everything now has micro transactions. You will be hard pressed to find any recent mmo that doesn't have a cash shop even if they do have a subscription.

Making all these forum topics about how you don't like them isn't going to make them go away. The damage has already been done enough people buy into micro transactions that it makes companies a large enough profit that they will continue to exist in almost every video game.

[Tupsi]

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Exactly - At this point in time if the practice were going to change it would have changed by now. There's still multiple MMORPG models and all this doom and gloom "Oh god they're adding past content to cash shop!" doesn't exist. The only argument people have is when they play semantics and say: "Well this worthless event armor is content!" I miss when you can buy a game and have a lot of bonus material in it without having to pay more.

Sadly though, gamers proven they want to throw more money at the same game they bought. You really can't fault a company for cashing in on that, just like you can't fault your favorite food place charging extra when you decide you want a larger size. It's simply industry standard. What did people say all throughout 1.0 including Yoshida?

"FFXIV should be a standard MMORPG."

Guess people simply forgot cash shops were standard in MMOs lol.