This is just appalling

[Tsumdere]

If an all-you-can-eat restaurant is serving 1000$ champaign as an extra and no one buys it... do they give that same drink out for free then or do they just don't offer it at all?

And what is the problem with 1000$ champaign if there are several drinks for free included in your all-you-can-eat?

Bad comparison. Champagne has a high production cost, of course they will never lower the price of the champagne or give it out for free because it takes years to make. The vanity items are modelled and finished. There is no cost to make more of them.

[ErryK]

You can not sit there and tell me that they didn't have the money for that without the mog station. They're a multi billion dollar company that makes more than Blizzard.

Why don't you contact SE yourself if you doubt it?

Do we have any proof that says the Mog Station money or even our own Sub money went to either of those? :B

There's an interview somewhere where it was stated but I've not got a link.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I have never been a fan of this whole 'optional shop' thing in the first place. It's a subscription based game.


You can not sit there and tell me that they didn't have the money for that without the mog station. They're a multi billion dollar company that makes more than Blizzard.

Sqaure Enix doesn't have nearly the profits Blizzard does. That being said, each product is allotted a finite budget they are expected to stay within. I suspect the Cash Shop is used exclusive to finance XIV while everything else is shared amongst the company. Either way, XIV has largely been a low cost high return venture that only recently got a jump in its budget total.

[Naunet]

Why don't you contact SE yourself if you doubt it?

That's what forum posts are for.

I suspect the Cash Shop is used exclusive to finance XIV while everything else is shared amongst the company.

We have no proof of this.

[Gramul]

Why don't you contact SE yourself if you doubt it?

Basic sense makes me doubt it. There is no possible way they couldn't afford what poorer companies can without cash shops.
It's extremely clear it's just around to maximize income by exploiting the bad decisions of the affluent. And while that's well and good for those that can afford it, it puts poorer players at a disadvantage.

There's an interview somewhere where it was stated but I've not got a link.

Of course they'd say it would go towards that, it's technically true. Any income can/would go towards any budget the company decides.

[Omegakiyohime]

But the thing is we are somewhat getting new stuff, may just not be in the form that everyone wants it to be, we are gettin new gauges on all just different ui setting different animations, gettin a new potd at some point, rumors of a third raid tier note i said rumors , also the squadrons system is gona get better which to make intractable npcs that can do any content past level 20 Id say prob isnt very cheap. I guess this doesnt really bother me at all as I come from swtor and I saw them do things alot worse this just seems like standard mmo stuff to me but I guess it bugs other people.

We're paying $50 for an expansion and have paid $12 monthly for the past 2 years. We should be getting that stuff in a successful. If a cash shop is needed on top of that just to deliver the things that you mentioned, a refresh to systems that already exist, then FFXIV is becoming almost too expensive to run. That's a formula for collapsing in on itself.

I don't have an issue w/ the cash shop (outside of the whole "eastern" theme being milked to death on the eve of an far eastern expansion). I just think that if the playerbase starts to feel diminishing returns from said shop and their subscription, it might be time to rethink budgetary priorities.

[Saiah]

Noone is forcing you to buy it.

[Gramul]

Sqaure Enix doesn't have nearly the profits Blizzard does.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bliz...izzard+revenue
1.1 B USD
https://www.google.com/search?q=squa...e+enix+revenue
214.1 B JPY (1.9 B USD)
That's nearly double.

Mind you, these are one or two years out of date, but I doubt it's changed terribly much.

That being said, each product is allotted a finite budget they are expected to stay within.

True as that is, the company is ultimately the one who decides how that's split, and they can change that at any time. This is all perfectly within their power and scope.

[Mimilu]

There's an interview somewhere where it was stated but I've not got a link.

I have doubts... >x>
I don't think Yoshi-P or the rest of the Dev team would say anything or be allowed to say anything about the games financial situation.
Personally, I think SE pools all their money together and gives XIV a stipend, increasing it when it's time for a new expansion.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

https://www.google.com/search?q=bliz...izzard+revenue
1.1 B USD
https://www.google.com/search?q=squa...e+enix+revenue
214.1 B JPY (1.9 B USD)
That's nearly double.

Mind you, these are one or two years out of date, but I doubt it's changed terribly much.

True as that is, the company is ultimately the one who decides how that's split, and they can change that at any time. This is all perfectly within their power and scope.

Click on the wikipedia click. Blizzard Entertainment is a subsidiary. Blizzard as a whole has a revenue of $4.664 billion.

Not necessarily. No company focuses the bulk of their budget on a single product. Keep in mind, A Realm Reborn was intended as little more than salvage after Sqaure nearly went under. They weren't going to allocate significant funds until XIV proved viable, which is why Stormblood supposedly has a substantially higher budget than Heavensward did. The Cash Shop has been a way XIV makes money for itself. Our subs pay for development of patch content and into other SE products like FFXV and FFVII: Remake.