Can Cash Shop be a bit more reasonable

[Welsper59]

I find the outfits in game to be much better, you can be more creative with them, you'll just end up looking like every other person buying/wearing the hot new flavor of the week thing. (How many people even ride bennu's anymore? That was flavor of the hour)
The only things I've bought are Lightning's outfit + Blazefire Sabre, Odin's mount and the Y'shtola outfit (Original) and I regret all four purchases. Going to just continue supporting the game through my subscription.

We learn through our mistakes. I've spent a lot more money than I care to recall on WoWs cash shop and services. Likewise with some F2P games... ugh. I relate it to unnecessary purchases on Amazon. Why the crap do I need the 12 different battery backups for devices that I bought over time!?

That's really the danger with digital transactions. If we're comfortable with spending, we don't really fully grasp how much we lose until hindsight kicks in lol. I'm sure if I had all that money I regret spending in cash, prior to spending it, at least some of it would have never happened.

[UnaLihzeh]

I was going to say this about that analogy but I didn't want to break the poor souls heart. Any movie theater would probably go out of their way to allow you to buy their quadrupled priced M&M's.

Also my thought. I straight up go in and purchase popcorn with extra butter from time to time (mmm fresh popcorn). I haven't seen a movie in theaters in yeaarrrssss.

[Kohta]

Yet most of the games you listed don't even have half the playerbase of games like WoW and FFXIV. Why? Back when TESO was sub based it was an utterly unplayable garbage mess. Now it's at least playable, but still boring. Blade and Soul and BDO are garbage KMMO grindfests. TERA is a patch simulator. WildStar is In-Game Advertisements... In Space!

Six in one hand, half a dozen in the other. Either you sub for a good gaming experience + optional cash shop, or you don't sub for what basically amounts to a polished up browser game.

Except I find FFXIV incredibly boring lately, more so with more tomestones and more relic work in the garbage. Yet, somehow I am still enjoying Tera and exploring the classes. That's kind of how opinions work, though. You have yours and I have mine, doesn't mean either of us is wrong for it.

I guess my point is, I don't feel guilty that I haven't played Tera in 3 or 4 days because it's not running my bank every month.

[SessionZero]

Except I find FFXIV incredibly boring lately, more so with more tomestones and more relic work in the garbage. Yet, somehow I am still enjoying Tera and exploring the classes. That's kind of how opinions work, though. You have yours and I have mine, doesn't mean either of us is wrong for it.

I guess my point is, I don't feel guilty that I haven't played Tera in 3 or 4 days because it's not running my bank every month.

You're welcome to have your own opinion of what game is fun and what game isn't, I'm not saying you're wrong for liking those games. I was just pointing out that FFXIV still has an impressive player base when compared to those other free to play titles, and numbers pretty much speak for themselves.

[Paladinleeds]

I find the outfits in game to be much better, you can be more creative with them, you'll just end up looking like every other person buying/wearing the hot new flavor of the week thing. (How many people even ride bennu's anymore? That was flavor of the hour)

I still ride Bennu! I bought it not for the mount looks, but for the music it plays. T12 theme is one of my favourites, if not my actual favourite battle theme. I also love riding my Round Lanner (plays Heroes, from Thordan).

[LiaShan]

I hate cash shop, but I couldn't help but buy two sets...
it's one of the best outfit in this game IMO




if this game is slowly turning into a F2P Chinese\Korean MMO,
let me have the last bit of fun before this game dies.


some pics of my FC mates， we came from FFXIV 1.x & FFXI,





we had so much fun in FFXIV 1.2x,



and we were very excited when ARR release,



but now, it's all gone. because group content is not exist in this game
(treasure hunt is joke & we don't have the time to raid),
to me, 2.0/3.0 is more like a single player game....glamour is the true end game in this game

[Cakekizyy]

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.

Local theaters check ticket at hallway to the rooms, no ticket needed to go to concessions.

[KitingGenbu]

Local theaters check ticket at hallway to the rooms, no ticket needed to go to concessions.

Since we're talking about movie theaters, its kinda funny that my local theater charges 4$ for a small bottle of water yet will give you water from that same bottled water in a cup for free.

[Lexia]

Local theaters check ticket at hallway to the rooms, no ticket needed to go to concessions.

My local theaters have the ticket booth and a ticket checker as the first thing and have to pass though both to get to anything behind them, including the concessions.

[Welsper59]

but now, it's all gone. because group content is not exist in this game
(treasure hunt is joke & we don't have the time to raid),
to me, 2.0/3.0 is more like a single player game....glamour is the true end game in this game

1.0 (i.e. old school MMORPG format) relied heavily on a specific type of player mentality. The moment that cross realms/servers need to exist, or even to an extent just an automatic party builder, is the moment you'll almost always fail to recapture the old group mentality. That doesn't mean it can't exist currently in XIV, it just means it's not a given expectation to the random Joe that you come across. Most of us won't encounter a random "Want to help us do <content>?" that could actually interest us enough to join, and thus, an opportunity to meet fellow players on your server is gone. There's not much reason to join them since it's so easy to just queue solo, and chances are, most players you'd randomly get don't have much patience anyway.

You're not going to get that old successful community back anytime soon. That's just an unfortunate reality for most players (since most of us want it to happen to us, not us initiating it).