Quote Originally Posted by Rubieus View Post
Was having a chat with the darling wife about the current JP event everyone has been talking about and how crazy it is JP hasn't just given in and put it in cash shop. srsly. Just put everything in cash shop like China events and anything else they have in store for exclusives. _-_ So I made this.. thing.
I read the forums on a daily basis and i must say... I find it alarming that there are so many people asking/requesting/demanding the FFXIV Team to put the items they want (or cannot get through regular in-game means) for sale on the Mogstation, whilst pulling out their wallets.

Truth be told, i’m not really the one to talk, since i’ve bought my fair share of DLC content for different kinds of games. I mean, my Rockband Song Library contained 404 songs at one point. I’ve bought more than just a handful of songs for Rocksmith. I also bought “DLC” for League of Legends, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Little Big Planet and more. But, I thoroughly enjoyed the “Old Hunters” DLC for Bloodborne with my FFXIV friends. Not to mention that i still have a stack of games for both the PS3 and PS4 (Heck, even the PC!) that i haven’t even touched yet.

But, when i see how far people would go to get that one specific mount or glamour piece… Well. It makes me feel “old”. (For a lack of a better description)

I can totally understand that there are people out there who put a great deal of importance to their appearance, but i also believe that you can go “too far” as well. We are still playing a game and while we use it to “escape reality”, we shouldn’t go overboard with it. Throwing money at everything we want, purely for the sake of having it.

I’m not a fan of the Cash shop. I don’t like it one bit. But, i did get the Platinum Wedding pack in order to “pull a prank” on my friends. You guys have probably seen the screenshots in this thread. It started out as a prank, but we had a lot of fun putting up that “show” and it was worth every single penny of it!

So, will i accept its existence? Well, yeah. Sure. It’s their money, so they’re the ones deciding on how to spend it. If they want to spend 25+ bucks on a mount, that’s their choice (as much as i dislike it being there in the first place).

In the end, i’m the one who determines if i want to spend money on vanity items or not.