[Spoiler] The Rising Mogstation Update

[NolLacnala]

I cannot wrap my head around especially when you consider the fact that more people would buy them if you could dye them.

I can't wrap my head around a pay to play MMO treating its players like free to players.

[Atoli]

Wow...they seriously did it -___-°
Like, I was fine with getting the old outfits since they were basically just normal gear anyway and the NPC got new ones anyway.
But now?
Do we have to shed EVERYTHING out for cash?
I want to play a game in which special NPCs are at least a BIT special and aren't surrounded by 200 players in the same f*cking garb

[FoxyAreku]

I can't wrap my head around a pay to play MMO treating its players like free to players.

You really don't know how free to play players get treated if you would even compare FFXIV to that.

[DreamAngel-Ren]

Do we have to shed EVERYTHING out for cash?

No, you don't have to shed everything out for cash because the items are OPTIONAL meaning it's your choice whether to have the item or not.

Going a bit off topic, since SE just released Thancred and Y'shtola's latest attire in the Mogstation, it makes me wonder on what's going to happen to the characters in the story..o3o

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

"The cash shop will never be a problem, they will always let people get the items at events and then they will put them at the cash shop for those who missed them" - White Knights, 2014.

This is really sad, and as this trend increases, we get close to abusive cash shops, because thats how the average gamer is today, SE runs a business and thats where the money is, the idiotic average gamer.

[Delta041]

I hate that the hairstyles are gated behind the rest of the outfit. I couldn't care less about it.

Cash shop items being character bound rather than account wide is an absolute turn off.

[Lexia]

Hey SE how about you put those Eastern Cherry Trees in the mog shop, or too afraid of upsetting the people selling them on the MB for 5-20 million gil (depending on your server)

[Taruna-Aeon]

Got the outfit for the hair, money well spent. 8)

[MrPresident]

I'm still sad they add glamour into cash shop like that. Wish they would
give us an event for them like they usually do for glamour,
then if you missed it, throw it in CS a year later at least.
:/

Well when the cash shop was being first teased everyone said this would start happening and they were slapped down and told it would only be for things missed or otherwise attainable in game.

We now pay a sub and are expected to pay extra for stuff they could just as easily stick in the game.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

"The cash shop will never be a problem, they will always let people get the items at events and then they will put them at the cash shop for those who missed them" - White Knights, 2014.

This is really sad, and as this trend increases, we get close to abusive cash shops, because thats how the average gamer is today, SE runs a business and thats where the money is, the idiotic average gamer.

It still isn't. This is cosplay glamour, not new designs. When people have said what you've quoted, they mean the latter.

Nonetheless, would you call someone who, say, goes out partying and blows $100 one weekend an idiot? Why? Because they choose to freely spend their money on what they deem enjoyable? You may dislike something, but that doesn't inherently make it idiotic to partake in.

Well when the cash shop was being first teased everyone said this would start happening and they were slapped down and told it would only be for things missed or otherwise attainable in game.

We now pay a sub and are expected to pay extra for stuff they could just as easily stick in the game.

We pay a sub for substantial content updates every three mounts, which include glamour, gear, dungeons, raids, mounts and all that is associated with them. Were this a F2P/B2P, we wouldn't see any glamour whatsoever that wasn't cash shop exclusive and actual content updates would slow significantly. Compare the amount of genuine content updates seen in Black Desert or Blade & Soul to FFXIV; nevermind the enormous grinds both games implore on their playerbases to make the cash shop enticing. BDO is particularly bad because if you want any chance of competing in endgame PvP, you will need to either pay for their sub model or dedicate half your life to monotonous grinding just to keep pace.