Dont Lock Emotes To Extremely Exensive Merchandise

[Crysten]

I have one, and there are bills to pay. Do you pay for gas, electricity, rent, and water? I can barely afford my subscription. Most Americans are struggling right now.

I feel the need to point out that OP is happy give a lil' sob story about Financial hardship to back up his emote woes only to see he bought access to the Fanfest stream in another thread.

You can't be struggling for money that much if you're blowing cash to buy Tidus glamours and Rikku minions, surely.

[KitingGenbu]

Maybe the OP just wants them to eventually sell the emote in the cash shop? Honestly, if enough people request it, SE will eventually do it. Free money after all.

[Croweyes]

Last i checked i'm buying a figure not an emote.
The emote is a BONUS for buy the figure.

If you want something bad enough, your willing to pay for it.

[Aivi_lo]

I wish they wouldn't lock exclusives in game things behind an expensive item as well. I do like to collect mounts, minions and emotes in game and I don't want a giant expensive statue. That's my two cents.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

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If you only checked Square Enix's store, you would have known this simply isn't true. Every single statue/action figure they have is priced anywhere from $120 to $149 with the exception of all a few being less. None of them include emotes for their respective games. The Odin emote is little more than a thank you gesture, and carries along their theme of adding something in-game to all of their merchandise.

reality loss, the incarnation.

people really forget that this is a sub mmo and just buy into everything by now. it's disgusting.

And people also forget our sub pays for patch content, which does include mounts, minions and glamour. They also assume if it wasn't for the cash shop, all this stuff would be in the game. Like DLC, that wouldn't be the case. We simply wouldn't get it at all. DLC/Cash shops/online stores are how publishers offset the rapidly increasing costs to develop games nowadays. They raised the prices and people did nothing but complain $60-80 is too much for a game. Therefore, this is their alternative. Some will pay for bonus content or collectibles, others won't. If you dislike a price, don't buy it. I really wanted the Chinese outfit, but still haven't felt it worth $18 ($24 Canadian). So I skipped out of it for now.

[niwaar]

Get a job like a normal adult?

Spoken like someone without real responsibilities. Some odd us do have good jobs and have things like you know bills. 150 is just a tad ridiculous to expect the masses top purchase.

[Alberel]

Yes I pay utility bills, cell phone, mortgage etc. I also give up things in life to save for things I want. Instead of buying whatever brand new cell phone comes out once a year I can save my $700 to spend on other luxuries tho. It's give and take if people want the statue badly enough they will find a way.

You aren't purchasing the emote remember it's an added bonus for purchasing a highly detailed statue.

Sigh, the emote is not just an 'added bonus'. You are paying for the statue and emote combined. SE wouldn't be offering the emote if they didn't think it would get more sales of the statue. If the emote is getting more sales of the statue then the extra people buying it are doing so FOR the emote. Thus that price is for the emote and statue together. The emote is not some free extra. The only way to get it is by paying over $100 for something. It is, therefore, a $100 emote regardless of whether the emote alone is what is being purchased.

I'm tired of seeing people trying to reason it away as being a freebie charity giveaway from SE. No. That emote requires you to spend over $100 to get it.

Telling people to save up for it or questioning how they can't afford it is also incredibly selfish. Not everyone is necessarily as wealthy as you. Your line of argument is effectively saying that rich people IRL should get nicer things in game... That's a very dangerous route to take for a subscription MMO.

More people should be questioning why SE thinks they can charge players over $100 for access to an emote. Unfortunately the responses to this thread make it rather clear why.

[Kewitt]

Get a job like a normal adult?

This effects me too. I have a job, my hubby has a job. 2 cars, 1 house, a rental property, and kids. All these things are more important to spend money on then this and in turn put them out of reach for us.

[Felis]

Maybe the OP just wants them to eventually sell the emote in the cash shop? Honestly, if enough people request it, SE will eventually do it. Free money after all.

I doubt it. Not a single merchandise bonus item is in the CS yet. Not even Asuran Armguard, and that is 6 years old (bonus item was included in the first print of FF XIII PS3)

[Lan_Mantear]

Link me to this statue. I want to buy 14!