Awesome diamond dust emote

[Nora_of_Mira]

If you can't afford this statue, you shouldn't be caring about emotes.

If you can afford this statue but not interested for any reason, remember it's just an emote you wouldn't use that often anyway. You're really not missing out on anything unless you're the type to idle in cities and spam emotes.

[Lilseph]

If you can't afford this statue, you shouldn't be caring about emotes.

I'm sorry, but I don't understand this reasoning. Care to explain how one thing is related to the other?

[Reinha]

They're designed to appeal to those with a disposable income and those who may not be inclined to purchase the statue by itself. Not everything needs to be available to everybody.

Mog Station cosmetic items are also designed for those with disposable income and who don't care about statues. The Shiva emote would fit there very well! There are two good reasons to add it to the Mog Station: 1) many players would be pleased and 2) it would bring more money to FFXIV. Just because it doesn't need to be available to everyone doesn't mean it can't be. Just like the Chinese/Korean outfits which were brought to the international version for the 2 reasons I mentioned.

[Avatre]

I actually ordered the statue because I like it. The emote is a bonus, that probably wont get much use outside the first week or so(or if I'm ever finding myself in a Shiva EX I will pop it for screen shot purposes).

[LastFireAce]

Like so many have say is basically a 150$ worth Emote you get figure as a bonus.

[Anzaman]

Put these emotes to MogStation, they will get my €€€. Keep them locked behind statues, they won't get any €€€ from me.

Statues will still sell since some people like to collect, but on top of that SE would get extra money from people who only want emotes.

Simple as that.

[AkashiXI]

When the price point is that high, it doesn’t take many purchases for it to be considered successful and for them to do this kind of practice in the future. My fiancé is a game developer, and her (small) company works on multiple f2p card mobile games. They do the exact same thing: have a lot small micro transactions (see: our mog store) and a few big ticket exclusive items once every 6 months. On average, only less than 2% of their community will buy those items, but they’re still profitable. It also adds more value to the lesser priced items, since it makes it seem that they’re a better deal.

Square runs a high/low business. Some of their items are competitive to other games, some are much higher. This falls into the latter, and unless they’re in the negatives in their margin, they’ll keep doing this.

[ManuelBravo]

Just because they exist and are common doesn't mean they should. If the statue is the main reason people supposedly pay the high price, why not optionally let people get the emote in game through some difficult achievement?

That is a pretty good idea, perhaps as one of the new achievement currency, and at a minimum 15k in achievement points. Maybe they will as a exclusive content.

[Ceasaria]

I'am basically a true emote fan and have them all (even those in mogstation), but the price for the 2 statue is too high.
I can't and won't buy them.
++ I would have prefered to see this in savage or ultimate content because of the particularity of these emote.
It would have been a true reward.

[ManuelBravo]

I'am basically a true emote fan and have them all (even those in mogstation), but the price for the 2 statue is too high.
I can't and won't buy them.
++ I would have prefered to see this in savage or ultimate content because of the particularity of these emote.
It would have been a true reward.

Then people will complain that is too hard and eventually will be nerfed. hmmm nerf content or make money hmmmm I'll take the statue for 800 Alex... answer what is profit?