New 12 dollar emote should have been a Eureka reward!

[Mikki]

Saying things like "it should have... " and "SE is greedy" are childish though. Don't be surprised when a company tries to make money and don't expect them to give things away for free just because you don't want to pay for them.

You have to consider the factors here, though. SE is touting the fact that this is one of the most subbed MMOs. They charge $15 per month from most of the player base. On top of this, if you want additional retainers you have to pay monthly for this as well and I can tell you that almost any serious crafter on this game will get some additional retainers. If you get several, it literally DOUBLES your monthly sub. Any in-game past event item is chucked into the mogstation, which honestly should reappear during events as it used to in the past. As I see you've been around for awhile, surely you recall a time when events used to have items from past events for sale at the seasonal merchants. Why not keep doing this? When the event comes back, you get a chance to get the item for free. If you don't wish to wait, you can buy it on the mogstation. I'm sure people who aren't patient would do so.

On top of this, they spend time making resources for the mogstation when there are fundamental problems in the game that need addressing, which in most people's opinions should take absolute priority. Things that haven't been solved in YEARS. Such as the fact that bosses disappear in large scale open world events like FATES. They then price these items way higher than any other cash shop I've seen from a subbed game and with all that extra cash they're making, we barely see any improvements. I mean.... we only JUST got an inventory increase with stack sizes being brought up to 999, something people have been asking for...for years. Something that, with the item bloat in this game, is honestly necessary. Especially if you want to level every crafter, hoooo boy! Not to mention, they do little to nothing about botters which they should have the staff to deal with. Most other games don't have a botting problem to such a degree because people actually get punished. Our "new" content is just more of the same and they don't even take time to increase the standards of things like graphics or cutscenes.

Look, I love ffxiv. Otherwise I wouldn't still be here. I respect that the devs are working hard, I'm not saying they aren't. But for the amount of money this game undoubtedly makes, they aren't putting the money and resources back into it. Yes, they are to some degree. But considering the AMOUNT they make it just isn't adding up especially when compared to its competitors and what they do with what budget they get. Final Fantasy is SE's cash cow. They know it. They will milk it and they do. To defend them in this.. well, you can do it if you want to. But to call other people childish for pointing this out when they have perfectly valid reason to do so is also pretty "childish".

I never said they should give things away for free, but their prices ARE high for a sub game. They are abusing their player base, lets not sugar coat it. If they were actually putting a majority of that money back into the game in a way that we end users could actually see and it was really monumental, then I'd have no problem with the prices. At all. And yeah, any business is going to want to make money. But it doesn't change the fact that a business working the way SE right now is, is not good to its customers. But we still support them. We just ask for change. Nothing wrong with that.