Should FF14 take a new route? Discussion

[Alleo]

As much as we give shit for them to adding a cash shop and some promotion I would like to remind that Wow cash shop exist too and for some items is more expensive and let's not forget the TCG promotion (which btw is no longer printed so expect paying a hefty amount on ebay if you fancy those cosmetics)

edit: not implying that is correct either way just saying the fact

WoW ist still a much older game with a much smaller cash shop. And lets not forget that you can get the cash shop currency ingame so you could get everything in the WoW cash shop by just playing the game. So FF14 is younger, but has a big amount of more stuff in there (and its getting more and more) with a big price tag which you cant buy ingame. There is imo quite a difference between those two.

I would complain quite less about the cash shop if we would be able to exchange Crysta with Gil or buy tokens from other players.

It's bad either way but you don't have mounts costing 1.5k EU on ebay atm, many items in wow are as I said are locked behind trading cards that are no longer printed and let's not forget that we have a part of our community asking for more and more items in the cash shop especially those that were created for the chinese version of the game, which somewhat baffles me

Frankly it annoys me that both game got a cash shop because a part of the costumers eventually asked them and I know some ppl I used to play would instantly buy those items no matter what.
It's sad if you ask me

It can go the same way since FF14 now likes to sell emotes with statues so who knows how much they will cost on ebay in the future. SE also has items from merchandise that you cant get anymore.

[Remedi]

WoW ist still a much older game with a much smaller cash shop. And lets not forget that you can get the cash shop currency ingame so you could get everything in the WoW cash shop by just playing the game. So FF14 is younger, but has a big amount of more stuff in there (and its getting more and more) with a big price tag which you cant buy ingame. There is imo quite a difference between those two.

I would complain quite less about the cash shop if we would be able to exchange Crysta with Gil or buy tokens from other players.

Most of the items in FFXIV cash shop were old event items which if you have been subbed constantly they are nothing to you.

What are you talking about the tokens in-game for the wow cashshop? There was never such a thing when I played this they really changed it to be a mobile game or what? And frankly since mop start their focus on the cash shop just skyrocket so no if anything ACTIVISION-BLIZZARD has become the greediest scumbag company after EA.

And my point of the TCG was about the emotes with statues, only that you don't spend money for the emote you spend them for the statuette not like WOW Trading cards that are completely useless if not for the loot code.
You can say I'm defending FFXIV here, maybe frankly I don't respect activision-blizzard and their scummy way especially because they could drop tons of dung on ppl and ppl will still buy it.

Just like ppl praises bethesda games while they simply release w/e and then let ppl complete it and they've been doing it for years but still nobody cares. I can garanteed that if WB, EA, Konami where to do this ppl will bitch to no end, but since it's everyone favorite nobody cares, so yeah on this topic I don't like ppl beign partial

Shame on SE, shame on Activision-Blizzard, shame on everyone doing it

[Alleo]

Most of the items in FFXIV cash shop were old event items which if you have been subbed constantly they are nothing to you.

What are you talking about the tokens in-game for the wow cashshop?

Yet for those that started after it those event items are still new items and they cant get them any other way. If I remember it correctly people can buy things from the cash shop (or tokens) and sell them ingame for gold. This way if you need more money ingame you can sell those things and the other person can get cash shop stuff. They also went so far and made it possible to sell game time that way.

Seeing the prices on SEs side, the DLC and complete Royal edition for FF15 and much more...I cant say that SE is any better than Blizzard.

Anyway last post on this otherwise its get a bit off topic.