Carbuncle mounts have arrived!

[Roda]

Except no one is forcing you to do anything, as I mentioned to Leera. You only have to pay for the base game you want to play and the subscription. That's all you have to pay. If you're a collector, then just collect the things in the game and pretend the MS doesn't even exist. Once again, this all boils down to you being upset that you have to spend more money for something you want. Unfortunately sometimes you have to do that and no amount of foot stomping is going to change SE - or any company for that matter. Enjoy the game as it is - a game. You don't have to have everything.

Yep putting my hands over my eyes and going "lalalalala" whenever I hear a mount whistle totally makes it so that the mog station isn't being rubbed in my face! 100% completely ignored! It's like there isn't over $1000 worth of content gated away from me!
I can also just color my chocobo blue and name it "carbuncle" for my carbuncle themed character and FC and House and... Wait... no... that's not how that works at all...

And yes "this boils down" to me being angry that once again my gameplay experience is valued less than someone who could play this game on a spreadsheet and have fun. I'd like to see you restrict yourself to "base game" level 50 content and try to have fun while everyone else has fun with the full game around you. 'Cause no amount of fussing over my opinion is going to stop me from, sometime in the future, determining that this game costs more than its worth.

[Grey-Satyr]

Yep putting my hands over my eyes and going "lalalalala" whenever I hear a mount whistle totally makes it so that the mog station isn't being rubbed in my face! 100% completely ignored! It's like there isn't over $1000 worth of content gated away from me!
I can also just color my chocobo blue and name it "carbuncle" for my carbuncle themed character and FC and House and... Wait... no... that's not how that works at all...

And yes "this boils down" to me being angry that once again my gameplay experience is valued less than someone who could play this game on a spreadsheet and have fun. I'd like to see you restrict yourself to "base game" level 50 content and try to have fun while everyone else has fun with the full game around you. 'Cause no amount of fussing over my opinion is going to stop me from, sometime in the future, determining that this game costs more than its worth.

You sound so ridiculously entitled

[Lathander81]

You sound so ridiculously entitled

Explain how her comment was entitled?

[Grey-Satyr]

Explain how her comment was entitled?

Did you read it? What about the signature?

[Lathander81]

Did you read it? What about the signature?

Sounds like an angry customer...if you are a customer and you are not happy with your purchase you have a right to voice that disappointment.

[Rokke]

rival wings feat. carbuncle cavalry

[HyoMinPark]

keep in mind they keep boasting about 10M players and if half of those people have more than 2 retainers we are talking serious cash.

That 10 million is player accounts over the total lifespan of FFXIV (which includes bot/RMT accounts, mind you). As of LuckyBancho’s last census, there are only about 850,000 actually still active—maybe a little more than that, nearing 900,000. Either way, not anywhere close to 10 million, so talk about cash based on that number means nothing.


That being said, none of the items in the cash shop are necessary to game play. They are all optional vanity items (with the exceptions of the jump potions/story potions, but I’m not getting into a discussion over that already well-beaten horse) that people can choose to purchase, and that go in addition to the multitude of items added in-game with every patch, or choose not to purchase because they either don’t want it or disagree with the cost—to which, they can wait for a sale; SE usually has 2~3 sales a year for the cash shop.

Like I said to you in a previous comment, you complained about the addition of one outfit pre-Stormblood to the Mogstation (the Fuga Attire), and when Stormblood dropped, multiple other outfits were added in directly in-game via crafted recipes and in-game events. The Mogstation in no way “takes away” from content being released in the game.

Sounds like an angry customer...if you are a customer and you are not happy with your purchase you have a right to voice that disappointment.

It sounded more like, to me, the person was angry because they want the optional items, but refuse to drop the money on them because they either don’t see the value in it, or are just being stubborn. Which is fine. But spewing vitriol at people that choose to drop money on the items in the cash shop is not the way to express their disappointment, nor is being childish in their responses to people (I recall a “bla bla bla can’t hear you”/fingers in ear comment they made in one post).