Can Cash Shop be a bit more reasonable

[seraf]

http://petapixel.com/2016/01/21/this...-over-1000000/

I'm pretty sure they would.

That's a very beautiful picture of a Lalafell. If I had a million dollars I'd have bought that too.

[cakesphere]

All this talk about the Chinese dress, but not a single complaint about the fact that they locked an emote behind a $150 statue?

I mean, don't get me wrong, $150 is a perfectly fine price for the quality of the item, but I find locking an in-game emote behind an item of that $ amount pretty crass.

TBH I find locking digital items behind limited-quantity physical items crass overall, at least with a digital item in a digital store they never run out. Two years from now you'll still be able to get that Chinese dress (assuming ffxiv sticks around), but good ****ing luck trying to get the Odin emote or a soundtrack pet.

That said it'd be nice if for $18 you got the Chinese dress on all characters and not just one ;_; JMO obviously.

[Inori-Yuzuriha]

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[SessionZero]

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Pick your rebuttal:
-But the collectors of such things!
-That's not the point, it's the principle of the thing!
-Something something armchair economics
-Something something free to play games

[Melorie]

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Good job. You can read the name of section on mogstation. That's not what this topic is about tho.

[KitingGenbu]

Well December is just around the corner, so maybe we'll see a slight sale on the newer stuff.

[Sakuraluna]

I'm hoping some of the newer things go on sale. I like the mount and the Chinese dress, but it's starting to get to the point that I can't justify the most recent prices with how I would use the items in game.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

This is only true because of a technicality. You have to pay the subscription fee to access to the game regardless of whether or not you buy these items. The same could be considered true of a movie theater's concession stand. You can't simply go in, buy concessions, and leave. You have to buy a ticket before you can enter and buy concessions.

I have to make a statement about the movie theater comment...


The local theater here will gladly allow you to go in just to buy concession items.




The thing most people don't realise about movie theaters...

Ticket sales?
That goes to the movie companies.

Theaters make very little, if anything, on ticket sales.


Concessions is the only way they actually make any money.

[Welsper59]

I've always been a little shocked (disgusted is far too strong of a word) with the price of things like mounts or the cost for full sets of a few glamour items (not referring to the China exclusive stuff). It really is rather expensive by an objective analysis. Notice, I did not say anything about personal "value". I claim it objective because you can relate costs by what you get from paying for the game itself. By comparing what you can get or do in the game from spending a single months sub fee.

Obviously, cash shop costs are going to be significantly higher by the cent if we broke it down between game costs and sub fees, and that's fine. But the fact that account-wide items like that fat moogle mount is $30, Sleipnir is $25, etc, is rather ridiculous for games like XIV. Part of the reason why WoW can get away with it is because of the fact that most players have multiple characters. You can divide the costs per character, if you really need to justify your expenses. XIV does not, in any really encouraged way, promote the "need" to play other characters to experience the game for its content (e.g. experiencing the game as a healer, dps, tank, whatever).

I can certainly get behind a $12 cost mount, as is how they've charged for the Magitek color palette ones. If the cost variance is mostly because those are single character, rather than account wide like the others, I'd rather they at least offer that as an option. Account wide for $25-30, single character for half that.

[cammi]

This is a silly thing to say. They already have a system in place for delivering new hairstyles: adding them to character creation/the aesthetician. I HIGHLY doubt people would have complained about that. I also doubt people would complain much if costumes were added to the Gold Saucer... there are already costumes there, so it makes sense.

You didn't catch what I was saying. I didn't say people would complain if they added it to the CC. Thats what they wanted. I can see people complaining if all of the hair but one was given tho and they would have to grind to get it. OH you mean like NOW? Cause thats what they DID. You don't need to take my word for it.. there's an entire thread about it. :/ You or I wouldn't complain but SOMEONE would. And that was my point... there's nothing they could do as SOMEONE or a group of someones WILL complain. It's sad yes, but it'll never stop.