Mog Station is overpriced.

[reiichi]

I am confused, and may have misread what you are saying, but are you suggesting that FFXIV pricing their items higher earns them less revenue? Therefore, it's worse for both Square, and for consumers? And this is your defense of the system, or are you saying they should lower their prices?

It seems so. There's a supply and demand argument that could be made there. Cheaper items will sell more often than expensive ones. There is a point where something because too cheap to profit or too expensive to break even.

For an MMO that survives off of quick cheap transactions (or really, almost any mobile game these days), they get a lot of money from $1-$3 purchases. It's easy for someone to handwave a dollar or two or three. But if those same perks were $10? $15? The game would probably flop.

In FFXIV's case, the more recent outfits like the ones takes from the Chinese and Korean distributions of the games likely had a lot more costs to them than say, the FFXIII outfits. I wouldn't be surprised if the profits were split between International FFXIV (JP, EN, DE, FR), SE corporate, and whatever country they licensed FFXIV to.