This is just appalling

[silverlunarfox]

It affects our game experience because it means more things get designed for the cash shop rather than for the game itself.

But it really doesnt...plenty of glamours/emotes/hairstyles/dyes are added in game. a couple glamour sets wont change the massive amount of content still within the game itself through patches, expac, seasonal events....

[Kuroneko_Jutah]

It affects our game experience because it means more things get designed for the cash shop rather than for the game itself.

But they're not taking resources away from the main development team to make these items in the slightest. They are separate teams with separate budgets.

They have gone on record as saying the cash shop items wouldn't exist in the first place if this cash shop team didn't exist and decide that these items were profitable enough for inclusion.

I'm not touching rentable storage though, dunno the thought process behind that one.

[Kaiden019]

Yeah, because in programming structure any object can just be turned into a mount without any work what so ever right?

[Elkanah]

Only the seasonal items were not made with the intent to sell them.

This is one part of the mogstation cash shop I was disappointed in. When FanFest 2014 came around, I was super excited about the ingame items. They were items you had to obtain during FanFest, and was meant to be exclusive. Then I was advised about the same folks who didn't go and watched the live stream getting the same items similar to us who went to Fanfest. Okay, that's cool, I thought. Maybe not like being there, but still semi, I get it. A year or two later, it's now a cash shop item. Devs already mentioned in the past that the FF X gear will be cash shop available too. All past event items that were part of an event are now purchase-able via the mogstation. What's the point of exclusive events if ALL of it is gonna be mogstation ready?

Didn't get this last event? Don't worry! Wait next year and it'll be available for 20 bucks or less! It's a little ridiculous. I have to wonder how much all the content will cost for the Yoko event honestly lol. I'm generally curious. That was a LOT of items too.

[silverlunarfox]

I'm not touching rentable storage though, dunno the thought process behind that one.

This is the only cash object I hate with a passion.....renting storage.... -.-

[silverlunarfox]

Didn't get this last event? Don't worry! Wait next year and it'll be available for 20 bucks! It's a little ridiculous.

I think alot of new players don't always hesitate to buy into what they missed. I was ecstatic when they brought back the moogle suit finally, its the one fan fest i missed by buying my ps4 just a little too late XP

[Elkanah]

I'm not touching rentable storage though, dunno the thought process behind that one.

This has actually been part of FFXI for quite some time now, and with the amount of content that players do, similar to how we craft here in XIV more than they do these days, the rentable storage actually works out for both games. As someone who sells quite a bit and often ingame as a crafter, and grabbing more and more amounts of crafting supplies while we inch closer to StormBlood, I find it helps me a lot more when I run out of space on one or two at max items sold. 40 slots to sell is very small. And I usually max out all 8 retainers on my character and come up even or more in less than a week once everything on all the retainers sell. So I can't really complain about it.

[velw]

Whenever I see that kit is available for real money purchase it makes me lose interest in it. Sure, folks can buy it if they want, but all it does is announce to everyone who sees them that they're a fool. Impressive gear is gear that takes an investment of time and skill to obtain, not gear that requires a credit card and a 5 min trip to the Mog Station. But it has frustrated me that Square seem to have put their best designs on sale for real money trade, making the kit that drops from efforts in the game look inferior. It betrays real hypocrisy in a company that claims to oppose rmt (and claims to ban accounts involved in rmt) and yet ignores reports of rmt advertising in game, tolerates a perpetual stream of blm bots with random character names blatantly traipsing through Uldah and Gridania (incredibly easy to stop), and at the same time seeks to cash in on its own "premium" items with a real money shop.

"Real money trade prohibited.... unless the profit is ours."

[Percept707]

Coming from path or exile, you guys are taking the pricing of these cosmetics way too seriously.

Selling vanity items exclusively for really money isn't greedy because you think the price is too high and you can't "vote with your wallet" on this point.

On the forums of other games people complain about balance. This forum is just whining about the dumbest ideas.

[Elkanah]

Coming from path or exile, you guys are taking the pricing of these cosmetics way too seriously.

Selling vanity items exclusively for really money isn't greedy because you think the price is too high and you can't "vote with your wallet" on this point.

On the forums of other games people complain about balance. This forum is just whining about the dumbest ideas.

If it brings on a idea, people will find reasons to complain about it. I buy some items here and there for the cash shop and don't mind it once in awhile. Though I think it depends if it really fits my mood to want to buy it or not. I haven't bought the mounts (except Odin so far) since it was the only attractive looking mount (to me anyways), but I did buy a few other items. Anything event related though, I usually make time to keep my sub active or buy a new sub about the time the event comes out, and then chill/hang out lol.