Glamour idea: would you support it?

[Shihen]

And then their first idea for cool new stuff is to offer to pay for it when they could get it for free! I just don't understand at all.

Creating new things costs money. Try pitching an idea to management and when they ask how much it will cost and what kind of returns can they expect to see, tell them it will make no returns because it will be free and the cost to create it will come out of current profits. There is no upside for them because it only benefits players that are already paying a sub.

It could be argued that it should be part of the development budget, but the game already has a ton of free glamour items in-game that were paid for with sub fees. This is extra and the cost to create it, and have it turn a profit, must come from somewhere. The current cost does seem absurdly high and I want to see it drop drastically as much as anyone else, but having no cost at all is not practical.

[Naunet]

Creating new things costs money. Try pitching an idea to management and when they ask how much it will cost and what kind of returns can they expect to see, tell them it will make no returns because it will be free and the cost to create it will come out of current profits.

It is not our job to be SE's advocate. People who ask for stuff to be added to the Mogstation are shooting themselves in the foot.

[Shihen]

It is not our job to be SE's advocate. People who ask for stuff to be added to the Mogstation are shooting themselves in the foot.

And yet the reality is that items continue to get added to the Mogstation, because it makes financial sense. They have more than enough money to move everything on the Mogstation to an in-game store that sells vanity items for gil, and still make a profit. But that doesn't happen because it's the equivalent of making $100 selling apples at one store and $25 selling oranges at another, then deciding to sell both together and still make $100.

Not saying it wouldn't be great for us as customers; it would. I'm just saying that "We already buy $100 worth of apples from you guys, cut us some slack on oranges." is more likely to happen than "We already buy $100 of apples from you guys so give us your oranges for free".

[Naunet]

so give us your oranges for free".

We pay a subscription; nothing in this game is free.