And the last bastion of non-Mog Station items gets put on Mog Station

[Sigma-Astra]

There's actually 3 songs, for $15 in total.

The one being talked about someone simply used for their picture showing the mog station being just over double the cost as the mp3. We're "letting ourselves become offended" because Square's trying to sell us the same thing, only much more heavily restricted, at over double the cost.

Imagine, if you will, a stuffed animal based on... let's just say Byakko because I don't think we have that in game. Let's say that it's $5 to get one ordered (I dunno how much the normal ones are, but let's just say this price.) Now the mog station comes around, and chooses to sell you one. For $12. On a single character.

Now you have 2 options. A stuffed Byakko you are free to bring anywhere you want, or pay over double to having one in game for 1 character.

I just took a look now that you mention it. All three songs already exist in-game as normal songs, all three songs are from the Eorzean Symphony OST collection exclusively in a completely orchestrated format. Considering that one had to pay $50 for the bonus scrolls that came from CD's like Duality, I'd say $5 is by far the cheapest bargain you're going to get for something like an exclusive song scroll to play within your virtual house.

However, the MP3's still reign as the better deal and probably don't have to go through the compression issues that they'd need to go through before being put inside of the game, therefore you're paying $2.39 for a better audio quality and increased flexibility than you're paying $5 for something second best. They're not really selling you the same thing, so to speak. They're selling you a compressed audio clipping over the lossless, better version. The MP3 has been out since December 20, 2017 and the Mogstation scroll was made on May 2018. I'm not sure why people would think they'd sell the song scroll for the price of the MP3 honestly, when at the lowest, scrolls have only gone down to $3.00, but they're mostly for past seasonal events. And, I have a feeling that even if they were sold at $3 a piece, people would still complain it's too much money. Now, one could argue that they should be completely free and put inside the game as achievements, but why? They're live orchestrated versions of songs from the game. Why should they be free to listen to for the select few of people not willing to spend money inside of the game when people have had to pay $2.39 for the MP3, pay anywhere from $50 for the CD's, and/or pay anywhere from $50 to $100 for tickets just to go SEE and HEAR the live performances? Shouldn't those people that had to pay be suddenly reimbursed for their money now because SE just put those songs into XIV for free?

Which again, you have several options: don't buy the Mogstation scroll or buy it. Buy the MP3 or don't buy it. In order for one to be affected by the situation, they have to let themselves become offended and affected by it, if you're venting that a song for $5 is too much then yes, clearly you're offended by the idea and situation, you're allowing yourself to become appalled by the very idea of it's existence. It's an easy choice for me to make without venting over the idea it's $5: I'm not going to buy it because it's not worth my $5. It's not worth getting pent up over a $5 song or a total of $15 for three songs in-game when I could probably spend $7 on the MP3's, mute the game, and listen to the songs as much as I want.

Honestly, I think this is just a marketing tool to get people informed and pique their interest about the CD's.