Quote Originally Posted by Valinis View Post
Basically what I understand from your posts is that you are saying FFXIV is solely driven by profit (they won't create anything that they can't make a buck from). If that's true, then that's pretty sad from a consumer point of view, knowing that the company doesn't care about me as a customer at all, only my wallet.
That's the way all businesses operate. I'm certain that if you had a business, while you would be concerned about customer satisfaction, you would also be concerned about your daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly profits. Because you would have business bills to pay. You would have to pay to rent the space your business occupies. You would have to pay your employees. You would have to pay for supplies your business may need. You would have to pay for electricity and water. I could go on. Businesses that don't make any money slowly go out of business. Or are bought up by larger businesses. You can't expect SE to just have one source of income (subscriptions).

As others have stated, why can't items like this be tied to in-game content? Why must they double-dip for profits from it?
Why must I pay extra to get extra movie channels from my television provider? Or pay extra to get more cellular data from my phone company? Or pay extra on my housing insurance to get things such as flood coverage? By your logic, all of these would be considered double-dipping for profit as well. If you want extra items, expect to have to pay extra for them. I don't expect my phone company to just randomly give me an extra 10 GB of data a month for free.

There are items tied to in-game content. Just look at the recent events:
Heavensturn event: new glamour items (the masks)
Valentine's event: new emote (/dote)
Easter event: new mount (Egg mount)
Little Ladies' Day event: new glamour items (Songbird attire), new emote (/songbird), new housing item (cherry blossom petal pile)
Gold Saucer event: MGP bonus, new hairstyle (Rainmaker, which I see you sporting), new housing item (stuffed Sabotender)

You're making it sound like there are no in-game items with regards to all these extras, but that isn't the case.