Chinese costumes are out on Mogstation

[Melorie]

Exactly.

Yes. People act like Square Enix is doing a favor for them. I even heard back when the moogle mount was released "People spent a lot of effort on it, are you saying those people shouldn't be paid for their efforts?". Which isn't true at all.

The reason this sits so unwell with me is because that there is no substantial value behind those items.
Every value and every exclusivity is assigned to them, i.e. whether it is valuable or not is decided by SE alone (as opposed to rare materials, high real life production costs, etc.) even though it does not necessarily hold such a value.
It is for that reason very difficult to assign a proper price to a virtual item (but that should not mean in turn that every price is acceptable).

Now before you say "but such an item requires development time" then I would say that this does still not justify the price because look at it like this:
The financial effort to create this good is limited to the designing, modelling and coding of the item once.

People go out of their way to justify the price. "Oh, it's account-wide" (not the case, which is worse if you ask me), "Oh, it has a XP bonus" (it shouldn't even be there?), "Oh, but this is from China" which doesn't say much, there's no way to know how that affects the pricing at all and I would like SE to be more transparent about this process.