The virtual currency "Moogle Coins" in the FFXIV Companion app must be removed

[Hestzhyen]

I can't get away from awful F2P greed even in one of the few sub-based MMOs now? This is inexcusable. Come on SE I know you need to make money but methods like this are exploitative to the max.

I disagreed with the Mog Station's existence but I made my preferences known by not using it. Now I am seriously considering unsubbing since this is yet another reason that SE cares more about what it can extract from me rather than trying to make my investment worthwhile. Where is all the content that the Mog Station was supposed to fund? The improvements? The game is still ARR with extra bells and whistles, SB has been lacking in things to do with nothing to show for it, and now they're trying to sell some micro transactions on top of a sub and a cash shop with many expensive exclusive items? Did the cash shop fund this atrocity I suppose? Is this what I'm paying for- the opportunity to get nickle and dimed to death from an MMO I pay for each month?

This app isn't a game or a required feature. But its profit structure smells strongly of high-grade bullshit to me. If this is what SE wants to do with XIV, I will take my business elsewhere. I was disgruntled before this news and now I have yet another reason to leave.

EDIT: I actually just went ahead and stopped my sub now. I'll be here for 4.3 since I love the 24 man raids but they seem hell-bent on charging me more for less. SE lost a ton of my good-will with the F2P crap on top of everything else I've been unhappy with. They will have to reverse course and make my sub money worthwhile for me to sub again.