Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
I have no issue with the cosmetic items sold on the Mog Station. Aside from being a very common business practice in the gaming industry at this point, the items are primarily marketed at those with a disposable income. They're luxury products. Nobody needs to purchase them.
Except if you start labeling them as "Luxury Items" you need to start questioning the validity of our Monthly Subscription and why we're even paying for it in the first place if certain items are being paywalled as "Luxury". The only games that should even have items of that nature should be Buy2Play or Free2Play games in which they either are sustained by first time purchases or cash shop purchases, games in which have no steady flow of revenue coming in on a monthly basis. FFXIV is not one of those games as it not only makes money on the base game purchase and expansion purchases but gets money on a monthly basis from people trying to access it in the first place.

It's true that nobody needs to purchase them but at the same time the argument can be made that there is no need to put them on the cash shop to begin with. Edda's outfit? Why not make it a Floor 150+ Reward item that you can possibly get? Sleipnir? Shove him into the Odin FATE as a rare as hell drop or even the Odin Trial. All non-promotional glamours, mounts and emotes? Well you have crafters that can benefit from having more glamour recipes in-game, an achievement based system or other duties in-game that can benefit from adding mounts as incentives and emotes? Add them into side-quests or for things like Teraflare and Power Up could have attached them to SMN/MNK related quests to make them feel more thematic alongside giving incentives for people to branch out to those classes if they haven't. And to finish the list, Event Items should be added back to their Event vendors every year.

Nothing in this game should be paywalled when access to the games and its forum itself are paywalled themselves, or rather to rephrase that Nothing that isn't part of an actual promotion such as the Amazon, 7/11, Fanfest or Physical Rewards should be put up on the Mogshop.