Emotes in the cash shop..

[Zumi]

This stuff was earn able last year. If you want it now yes you have the opportunity to buy it on mog station.

[Pinkie_Pie]

[Evangela]

some people missed them because they didn't play the game during the time they available in the game so they didn't pay for subscription fees back then. now it's time to pay.

[Jynx]

During the EU Fanfest Yoshi talked in about how what's made from the cash shop he puts back into the community, and one of the highlights was helping establish a new EU side server. Whether you choose to deny it and be cynical, thinking everyone is a fork-tongued devil, then that's on you.

Perhaps your not much into game news but developers lie all the time.

Wether it's fake tailers labled as "Gameplay" to only be something that doesn't exist in reality.(Gearbox)
Graphical fedelity in gameplay demos that never make the final game. (Ubisoft)(Sony)(many others)
Developers promising to delay games if they are buggy broken messes only to launch it as a buggy broken mess anyways (Ubisoft)

I could go on but developers are like any other businessman especially in the AAA business.

If you think that the cash shop is funding the EU servers your dreaming.

I should add that.

It's always this sense of awkward adorableness reading people act out scenarios. It just makes them sound silly enough you just wanna give them a pat on the head and a cookie.

My scenario is the only one that makes sense, in your world Yoshida bust into the head office and demanded servers for EU. They then told him the only way is if they could monitize the game to afford it.

[Zumi]

My scenario is the only one that makes sense, in your world Yoshida bust into the head office and demanded servers for EU. They then told him the only way is if they could monitize the game to afford it.

More likly EU servers were not in their budget for FFXIV. Having the Mog Station store allows for more profit and allows them to have the budget for EU servers.

[Kikoten]

I think one of the most successful Cash Shop items is the Phial of Fantasia. Imagine if SE actually said, "You know what? They're right. Cash Shops DON'T belong in this game." Then they got rid of it, along with everything in the shop.

Every time we'd want to be a different race/gender, we'd have to make a new character and do the whooooooole story again!

[Lewtskie]

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Yes, clearly all developers are evil Saturday villains looking to steal your soul. Just like CDPR and their large collection of free DLC they've offered for their Witcher series when they could have so easily made even more profit.

You can just look at all the shit and think that's the entire definition of the world, or you can see from ever angle other than the darkest corner in your box.

No, in my world SE gave them so much to raise the PoS that was 1.x from the pits and had them do whatever it took to actually make profit. Of course, no one in their right mind would just give 100% to that. They gave him a limited budget, he did what he could to turn it around and make a profit. But they only get so much as obviously SE itself takes a large cut from the profits. What's left would only likely break even with maintaining staff and equipment. Worse case scenario is that even subscriptions alone wouldn't have been enough to maintain staff and equipment, so something else had to be done. No reason for SE to throw even more extra funding to them from profits of other games. Let them be self sufficient while only making profit from them. They want more, they work to get more, but only by themselves.

[Jynx]

Yes, clearly all developers are evil Saturday villains looking to steal your soul.

No just a business trying to make as much profit as possible in financialy unstable times for their company.

Your making it look like a game with millions of subscribers paying a monthly subscription can't afford to keep the dev team afloat lol.

[Pinkie_Pie]

[ShanaShirayuki]

Threads like this are pointless, speak with your wallets and purses.

Things like this wouldn't be around if there wasn't a market for it, obviously there are more people wanting stuff like this in the cash shop than there are dissenters such as the OP.