Lord Of Verminion (Collecting Minions)

[zosia]

Obviously there is a market there for these minions. I made this thread to implore SE to allow us to buy the minions separately and support the game in more ways than just the physical merchandise. Hopefully they'll take our feedback into consideration and consider it in the future ^^

yeah, there is a market for it, but it's not so black and white I think. You have many people who will pay $40 for a plushie + minion code. I don't know if you have seen the carbuncle plushie, but they are really small, they are like a $15 stuffed toy. Just to give you an idea, the carbuncle's head is slightly larger than a golf ball.

SE is getting people to over pay for some of this merchandise by making it seem like your getting an amazing deal with the included limited edition minion. If they start to move these minions to the cash shop, it's going to be harder to over charge people for some of this merch. I don't have any of the data on this stuff, but I bet you sales on the OST and minion plushies would drop some if they show the pattern of eventually adding those minions to the mog station.

EDIT: I do remember a place you can find some stats on the cash shop minions.

http://www.xiv-minions.com/statistics.php

A lot of the store minions have around the same % of ownership as the OST, artbook, and plush minions. The market seems very small for both cash shop and merch minions. Seems like a small market for both imho.