FFXIV: A Rave Reborn

[Sesera]

If I happen to miss an event, I gladly pay a few bucks to get those items later on. I bought the songbird stuff so fast when they put it up on Tuesday, I've been waiting months to get them! I don't mind supporting a game I love.

Honestly event items should be purchasable for gil or fate token during said event and why not for real money when the event is over for those who don't want to wait for the next year one.

[Keridwyn]

Honestly event items should be purchasable for gil or fate token during said event and why not for real money when the event is over for those who don't want to wait for the next year one.

Most games do not allow you to acquire event exclusives once the event has passed at all. While I would appreciate being able to buy event rewards I missed in game (at least a year later like 2017 items in the 2018 events) I don't mind tossing a little extra cash their way provided the pricing stays reasonable.

[Krotoan]

Ninja Edit 2: Instead of putting emotes on MS, they need to add them to the game and or re-add them. Make them achievement rewards, etc. Asking people to pay irl money for emotes is stupid imo when you can just have them in the game for FREE by completing something like a sidequest or achievements. But SE wants $$$ so bad that they put up stuff on MS hoping to lure ppl in who won't hesitate to throw their money away and even offer shortcut cheat codes like those...Jump Potions.

Look at it this way: People who were CURRENTLY PAYING MONEY to the company got those emotes/mounts/furniture/gear for free at the time. "Thanks for keeping your sub up, here's some neat stuff!" . Now instead of just never letting anyone else have it again, like some MMO's do, they make it available for usually less than the whole months sub price at a later date. Gives the people who bothered to do it a chance to be "exclusive" for a while, but the people who look at the items and go: "man.. I wish I'd been there for that" now have an option to get those items if they're worth it to them.

Ultimately YES, the company is getting a little extra money out of it and since they are in it for the money I can't begrudge them that. You want the thing for "free" (you're still paying a sub) ? Be subbed when it's released and play the event. There are always going to be things they implement to make it advantageous if you maintain a constant sub, even if they don't directly market them that way.

[Ametrine]

*Thread is about the fun new emotes*
*Is instantly derailed into an Anti-Mogstation thread*

I think /cheerjump is my favorite of the three.

[Krotoan]

I'm personally going to stand at common flying landing points and just constantly use the blue one. It's very reminiscent of those guys who guide in the airplanes.

[Shouko]

Do you like the game? Do you like new content? There's nothing wrong with supporting FFXIV via the mogstation, its all cosmetic and the money goes into bettering the game, unlike the subscription fee income which gets funneled straight into square enix's coffers. They don't have to allow people who missed events to get the emotes/glams. But they do, and in doing so the game gets support and the players get items they may have missed. It's all very win win

Cash shops are retarded, people are all too willing to open their wallets, and buy the stuff outright. If more people and I do mean the majority of players started speaking with their heads instead of their wallets and stopped buying cash shop vanity stuff then maybe more of the sub fees would get tossed back into the game. I can understand from 1.0-3.0 era seeing as how the game was in an unknown state at the time and the company was in a bit of trouble but it's 2018 and the game is going strong.

[Reinfeld]

I can't think of a single other MMO that gets away with shamelessly selling the previous years event items on the cash shop.

Are you specifically speaking of Subscription-based games? Nexon is pretty bad. Instead of letting you spend $15 to purchase a costume straight up they prey on gambling addiction with their gachapons.

[Shouko]

Are you specifically speaking of Subscription-based games? Nexon is pretty bad. Instead of letting you spend $15 to purchase a costume straight up they prey on gambling addiction with their gachapons.

To be fair those are freemium models, aka you don't pay a sub, where as this you have a paying sub that doesn't feed into the game much.

[Blackbird1]

too bad they don't come with themes when inuse like uhh...techno beats or something lol

[Crescents]

Are you specifically speaking of Subscription-based games? Nexon is pretty bad. Instead of letting you spend $15 to purchase a costume straight up they prey on gambling addiction with their gachapons.

I am, actually. because unlike I'm assuming you're referring to maple and mabi, you not only have to buy the base game of FFXIV and pay a sub, I don't think they should throw nearly as much stuff on mogstation as they do. Not that I inherently have an issue with a cash shop, I spent quite a bit on there myself I was just pointing out theres no other sub based MMO where they can stuff previous seasonal rewards and nobody bats an eye, if this were to happen on other games you would see like meltdowns from the playerbase.