Quote Originally Posted by LillithCale View Post
But....shouldn't you be mad at the people who bought it in China then, not the people here?

Much as how people who pre-ordered ARR got the Caith Sith Minion, the people who joined up to play the Chinese versions were told "Hey, check out these exclusive items that only you can get for this amount of money!"

here's a picture of it in the chinese cash shop:



Now, we can see here that it costs 12800 of, what I am assuming is, Yuan. Now, just pulling up a simple google converter and converting 12800 Yuan to USD we get: $19.18 which is very very close to the price we have in the mog shop.

So, I do understand where you are coming, I do, honestly but the thing I want to point out here is you are getting upset at the wrong people. Not to redirect, because markets are markets. The people who 'begged' (of which I am one) for those items to be brought over did not decide the price, the people at SE in Japan, did not decide the price. The value of that exclusive item was set by the outsourcing company they use to run FFXIV in an area with a closed market, and, it must have sold well because we are seeing a similar price here.

Is that frustrating? Yes, it is. But mind whom you direct your frustrations at because we, as a region, would never have seen this item were it not for asking for it, and, while it's certainly disappointing that it costs so much, I feel it's in bad taste to ask for it to be free when an entire region had to pay what we are paying for it.
No offence meant but 12800 yuan is $1917 USD not $19.17 that is actually 12800 coupons which you buy using yuan at a rate of 100 per 1 Yuan through the website. Yes the dress costs around $19 as I pointed out earlier in the thread but just want to make sure it is factually correct. Also let us not blame those of us who bought this in the Chinese version. If it was not popular in China I doubt they would have released it ever in North America cash shop or otherwise.