Unofficial Census 2016 for FFXIV

[thegreatonemal]

For most people it makes them not want to bother if in 2 patches the thing they spent a bunch of time on is just given away in a cash shop or w/e. If your the one that spent 1M MGP on a fenrir mount, then the devs turn around 2 months later and lower the cost to 100K, you might feel a bit differently. Chances are the next mount they put in the gold saucer for 1M, you wouldn't want to actually participate in getting it. That's the problem people are having.

Anyone that farmed red scrips in patches 3.0 - 3.3 probably know this feeling very well. When the gear they earned was given away for blue scrips. You start to ask yourself 2 questions... why did i bother doing that? and why would i want to do it again?

You did it for the gil. you did it to gather those materials to either sell or make your own 220 crafted gear for free and get ahead of everyone who had to relie on midas normal with their weekly loot lockout rng drops. You did it so when they did make that stuff blue scripts you were already in a position to make you're new ironworks stuff again for free and to make money off the lazy people.

Them getting it later does not effect you in anyway you had it when it was still useful in the current tier. they get it when its catch up gear while your preparing to make a lot more money and get gear to get you ahead of the game in the next raid tier.