Quote Originally Posted by Alleo View Post
And why exactly is a raid item in the cash shop much different than emotes, mounts or pets? Why does only the raid point deserve enrage? All of them are content..I dont care for raids for example, lots of people dont care for raids since only a really small amount of people clear it anyway. Yet it costs a lot of money and time to create. (Bosses, equipment and so on) The majority of people in this game are probably casual, care for pets, glamour and other parts and thus it would probably only hit a small amount of people if they would do that. Why are those small numbers of people more entitled to have their raid ingame? They dont need the raid to play this game. Crying about this eventhough the company would earn money from that which would be better for their costs of creating such content and at the same time might leave more time and money to create more content for the majority of the players..well quite spoiled I would say.

See you can turn every argument around. Some people need to understand that glamour is content too..Ex primals are run a lot of times because of the mounts that drop or because you can create some nice items from the drops. Without the glamour and mount as an incentive people would not run these old primals the same way they do with them..so all these glamour items are really important to keep content active. Barely anyone would run Garuda ex if there is nothing behind the first win. All these pets, mounts and glamour could have been put into the game. They could have been used to keep older content alive or even create new content.

Yes nobody is truly forced to buy something, but in this way wouldn't it be completely acceptable if they put every new glamour in there and only get us re-skinned new equipment in the game? Since you dont need glamour to beat a dungeon.
As a glamour gobbling Balmung player, I have to respectfully disagree. You do not need a glam to win the game, it is different. Let me show you how I see it, maybe that will help you understand where I am coming from.

I work in the death trade, mortuaries. Now when you die your body has to be dealt with, that's the law, let's call that the basic sub. So with no frills everyone at the start of things (for their sub) gets the basic of the basic service ok. But some want glamour, for a fancy funeral to impress friends and enemies is their "end game". Now you don't need that, legally we can put anyone in the ground for a flat fee, the same fee. But if you want something.... demand it, should my company not provide it? Or provide it and eat the cost? No, of course not. If you want Saudi desert roses, you bet your tail I'll find some and as any business would, charge accordingly. Is that a cash grab? To provide extra services or extra cost that have been requested by my customers? No, its business, and honestly insane to expect that extra stuff beyond the basic package to be free. It's insane, the signatures I see, the posts, all going on about how SE should make everything free, to put everything in their game and just say f-profit.


Its not a White Knight issue, its a business person's issue. It makes me wonder how many of the people who complain against the CS understand how business work. The /playdead has been requested for years, my history will show at least 6-10 posts asking for it. So as a business I can see the meeting going, "We are between patches, revenue is down a little. Options?" To which someone would say, "Lots of request for /playdead." Someone gets put on the project, takes a few weeks IDK programing, but I do know the lad/lady working on it got paid, has insurance, most likely got overtime in an office with lights, internet, plumbing, all things that are not free (ie, overhead). No that stuff is not already there, someone on a small team is put on something like that its most likely an extra project meaning overtime and resources added like lights on at night to allow for work.

So true we don't know where the money goes in detail but with a little thought it is not hard to sort out that the emote was not free to make. We have to pay extra for extra things. If you want exotic flowers at your funeral you need to pay me extra. If you want an extra ranch sauce from McDonalds you have to pay extra. If you want better seats on your flight you need to pay extra. Extra money for extra stuff, how is this new to anyone?