New Mogstation Items (Magitek mount recolours inc.)

[Jynx]

I'll probably buy the White Magitek mount due to wanting it for quite sometime, but $12 for a simple recolour SE (a preexisting recolour nonetheless?)

Why should they charge less when people like you are willing to shell out for it?

It just blows my mind to see several people say "It's too much!...where can I put down my deposit?"

[Colorful]

Why should they charge less when people like you are willing to shell out for it?

It just blows my mind to see several people say "It's too much!...where can I put down my deposit?"

Maybe they'll sell more to outweigh the loss in cost. If it's $5 I'm willing to bet far more are going to put down the money for it, not everyone cares for mounts and the like as much as people like me do. :x

[Jynx]

not everyone cares for mounts and the like as much as people like me do. :x

All the more reason to not purchase an overpriced item. "Caring" about the glamor is fine it's a big part of the game, but why should you have to pay above and beyond your subscription fee to get something as simple as a reskin?

Why you don't protest this with a refusal of purchase is beyond me. Hell I like glamor as much as the next, and it's why I refuse to purchase from the cash shop because I shouldn't be required to pay extra to get enjoyment from the game I allready pay a hefty fee every month to access. Where do these insane costs even come from? All the mounts they have released use existing ingame assets "Slepnir, Draught Chocobos, now Magitek mounts" All of these are in the game and took minimal effort to slap paint on and somewhere down the line your expected to beleive it's worth MORE than a months subscription?

[Colorful]

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A time has showed us again and again, protesting against something is absolutely useless. Microtransactions have happened time and time again, they were protested time and time again, and yet, people who don't have go to forums could care less and just buy the items (the majority). I didn't purchase anything for over a year and displayed that I didn't like the cash shop, what came of it? More active cash shop updates. At some point, I just stopped caring. As long as they don't actively pour resoruces into the cash shop (entirely new models) or add items like Garlean armour, then I couldn't care less at this point.

[Jynx]

A time has showed us again and again, protesting against something is absolutely useless.

Wait what? Protesting is useless?

Little do you know that me refusing to purchase from their cash shop does actually have an effect, it deprives them of access to my money.

All they do everytime they expand the cash shop is further distance me from believing they are providing me with real value for my subscription and one day it may lead to them not having my subscription at all.

Sadly the "useless" part of protesting is when people don't care and think they don't matter it's like the guy who doesn't vote saying his vote wouldn't change anything anyways.

[Colorful]

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Unless you can somehow get the majority to side with your opinion and stop purchasing from the Mogstation, yes, protesting is useless. I'm assuming you and every other protestor hasn't bought a single thing from the Mogstation, including retainers, correct? How far has that convinced SE to change it's way with it? Not at all, once the protestors leave, they'll start throwing more items on the Mogstation to gouge existing players further, but as long as it stays items that aren't completely new, I'll remain. The day I see more than a few entirely new items on the Mogstation is the day I quit the game, or earlier if I start to dislike it of course.

You're complaining about the price but you'll buy it anyway, not really seeing the issue here?
Are most Final Fantasy XIV players tsundere or something?
"Hmph! $12!? That's too pricey, b-but I'll buy it anyway, please look forward to my payment....baka"

I thought my GPU was a tad expensive, but I bought it regardless due to being able to afford it, I think TVs are unnecessary expensive, and yet they sell in the millions and I'm one who purchases them, I think food can be a tad expensive too at times, and yet I still buy it. Have you never thought something was more expensive than it should be but bought it? Unlikely, but who knows. Regardless, I'm not saying it's "Outrageously expensive" just more expensive than it should be.

[Yasuhiro]

I thought my GPU was a tad expensive, but I bought it regardless due to being able to afford it, I think TVs are unnecessary expensive, and yet they sell in the millions and I'm one who purchases them, I think food can be a tad expensive too at times, and yet I still buy it. Have you never thought something was more expensive than it should be but bought it? Unlikely, but who knows. Regardless, I'm not saying it's "Outrageously expensive" just more expensive than it should be.

A TV and GPU is little different to something that already exists in the game's assets but uhh....keep trying to justify why there's nothing wrong with what they're putting up on the cash shop, assets that again already exist in the game $12 for Red and White, thank you Square Enix!

[Jynx]

How far has that convinced SE to change it's way with it? Not at all.

I wouldn't be suprised if them releasing the cash shop only dyes wasn't due to hillariously sluggish sales after the initial hype-train and whales spending all they own on them the metalic dyes were not very common. now they are atainable in-game, if they were selling them hand-over fist I doubt this would be the case.


Just because SE doesn't come out and say "Jeese guys sorry we were bleeding your wallets" doesn't mean the people who aren't purchasing this content don't have an effect. the "Majority" may not be as much of a "Majority" as you think it is. I mean how many Slepnir mounts are there actually compared to the size of the playerbase? Not really alot I would imagine, also these purchased items have had consumer blowback as well with mounts like Slepnir being called out for not flying, or having special emotes requiring them to go back and put work into them to justify the purchase to the consumer.

It doesn't take alot of people to shell out to make the reskins profitable for SE, but there are farther reaching implications to these things in the long run and consumer apathy doesn't just happen overnight it builds and it can snowball before they realize it. The issues continue to mount and there will be a boiling point if they don't get their ducks in a row.

-Inventory issues
-Glamor restrictions due to cash shop
-Server instabillity
-Delayed patches

Now before anyone jumps on me I'm not on the developers about this I know the pool fools have no choice usually but their marketing arm needs to back down they are siphoning too much consumer good-will especially for a company that is just coming out of a spat of shaky reputation with their game releases.

[Kogasan]

Sadly the "useless" part of protesting is when people don't care and think they don't matter it's like the guy who doesn't vote saying his vote wouldn't change anything anyways.

Sadly enough this is exactly how some people feel me included. I live in the US and voting time happens next year. But I won't vote for this exact reason.

[Dualblade]

Why should they charge less when people like you are willing to shell out for it?

It just blows my mind to see several people say "It's too much!...where can I put down my deposit?"

Pretty much this. If SE thinks enough people are willing to pay a certain price for a certain item based on whatever info they have, they'll go for it. Only way to get it at lower prices is if the player base pretty much says no to that and barely anyone buys them at the price point.

ANd yeah it could be cost, while a recolor may seem really simple (and maybe it is.), it might also be more expensive then it really looks. -shrugs-