No More Cash Shop/Race/Superficial Body Feature Threads, Show Your Support

[MikeWW]

My main issue with the cash shop is that things are priced in a way I believe most people are deterred from buying what they would otherwise buy, and I believe enough people are deterred from buying that net profit may be lower than what it could be.

A good example is the moogle mount, it is really expensive at $30, but it is also really cool. I ain't paying $30 for it though, with $30 I could buy a new game on sale, or multiple new games on sale, or pay for half of a brand new AAA game, or pay for overpriced BS download content (which is relatively much less BS than a $30 mount). Trying to grab $30 from me for what costs pennies to distribute and process payment fees is just greed, and out of principle it turns me off from the cash shop and believe me, I always think back to some especially overpriced things like the moogle mount when looking at new mogstation items and how I should avoid the cash shop out of principle.

Now if the price was $15 for the moogle mount, I think the price is a bit high but I could definitely see myself buying it to try to support the game. If the price was $10 I'd think it was fair, and I think a lot of people would be buying it because the mount is really nice looking and they wouldn't mind tossing $10 to show their support, and I strongly believe you'd get much more than 3x the number of sales than you'd get with the current price of $30. If the price was $5, a lot of people would be happy, no one would be b*tching about it being in the cash shop, and if other items in the cash shop were also made reasonably priced there'd probably be a lot of people who feel they should buy up a lot of different items in the cash shop and they would enjoy the game more for it and square would make more money for it. I know I probably would buy a lot of things on the cash shop if prices were reasonable, and I'm a really stingy person, but I can appreciate and would support a cash shop of a game that gave people high quality models at a price accessible to everyone even if they wanted to buy every item available on the shop.

Also, I think a lot of the mogstation models are really great. I really love the artwork and models in this game, and think it's a real shame that I only see a mog mount fly by maybe once every few dozen hours of playing. Pricing things out of range of what most people consider reasonable is making poor use of the great art that have been created.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

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The cash shop suggests otherwise, as the current highest selling items are:

Fantasia
Chinese Dress
Y'shtola's outfit

Previously, Sleipnir, Bennu and I think the Moogle mount were all ranked in their top three. Suffice it to say, people are buying them enough to warrant the current prices. If they weren't, Square wouldn't keep selling stuff that high.