The whale mount is up on Mogstation

[Final-Fantasy]

Why do they not sell everything at $1 each item?


I mean, they boast about 14 million players etc.


So why do you need to charge $30 for 1 item.


Because we don't spend enough money on your other items? Why?

[Aster_E]

I hate shows of greed, and I have too chosen not to touch the cash shop ever again, as entertaining as the whale might be. However, I know how too many people will jump and buy new things as soon as new things come out, because restraint just isn't there. Any notion I might towards a boycott or people being more responsible with their money might as well be me talking to a cliff side.

[Vahlnir]

Because people can't stop themselves. Just because WoW's derpy playerbase allowed Blizzard to get away with it, doesn't make it alright here.

Except WoW's player base doesn't have to deal with a cash shop of this magnitude. Have they dangled some cash grabs in front of players' faces? Yes, the most recent was a boat mount which you could get by buying 3 months worth of sub time up front (with the promise of making the mount obtainable through their store later on for their standard prices). They also add exclusive items for their various games to their yearly Blizzcon tickets, virtual and physical. But SE does it way more often, plain and simple, and with such...ridiculousness. This doesn't really fall on Blizzard, and I'm fairly quick to criticize them much like I am with SE. This falls on SE. They're a business, I get it, but...there's a point where they should show some good will toward their customers. And they don't. At times Blizzard might not be a whole lot better, but their cash shop is of reasonable size.

[Sigma-Astra]

I hate shows of greed, and I have too chosen not to touch the cash shop ever again, as entertaining as the whale might be. However, I know how too many people will jump and buy new things as soon as new things come out, because restraint just isn't there. Any notion I might towards a boycott or people being more responsible with their money might as well be me talking to a cliff side.

It has nothing to do with restraint. If the person has the funds and wants to buy a $30 mount, you have no business to butt your nose into their financial affairs and say otherwise whether you disagree in personally spending that much or not.

It has nothing to do with being more responsible with their money at all until you hear stories of people spending $30 on the mount instead of $30 on a bill, gas, or food. Then, we can argue the idea of fiscal responsibility, but you literally have no reason or say to push your ideals on their personal spending habits if they have extra income to do so that literally harms no one but your own jealously about the issue.

[Vahlnir]

It has nothing to do with restraint. If the person has the funds and wants to buy a $30 mount, you have no business to butt your nose into their financial affairs and say otherwise whether you disagree in personally spending that much or not.

It has nothing to do with being more responsible with their money at all until you hear stories of people spending $30 on the mount instead of $30 on a bill, gas, or food. Then, we can argue the idea of fiscal responsibility, but you literally have no reason or say to push your ideals on their personal spending habits if they have extra income to do so that literally harms no one but your own jealously about the issue.

Correct. It's really no one's business telling others how to spend their money.

[NolLacnala]

I disagree. The more of you zero self control day1 buyers there are, the more they'll shove into the shop and the further it will spiral out of control.

[Vahlnir]

I disagree. The more of you zero self control day1 buyers there are, the more they'll shove into the shop and the further it will spiral out of control.

That's why they keep doing it. It works. SE would be stupid not to.

[JohnSpawnVFX]

I disagree. The more of you zero self control day1 buyers there are, the more they'll shove into the shop and the further it will spiral out of control.

I disagree. You jealous whiners who can't afford Mogstation stuff have no evidence that will happen.

[Sigma-Astra]

I disagree. The more of you zero self control day1 buyers there are, the more they'll shove into the shop and the further it will spiral out of control.

Does it harm you if I buy a $20 steak instead of a $10 one? No.

Does it harm you if I spend $40,000 on a new car instead of paying $2,500 for a used one? No.

Does it harm you if I spend $54.99 on an official Dual Shock PS2 controller for nostalgic purposes of playing PS2 era games instead of the $10 "fake" ones that usually break? No.

Get over it that some people spend their own money how they wish to, and that your opinions regarding said issues literally means nothing to them nor does it harm you or the game itself at large.

It's a personal grudge and jealously issue that you have because they bought something that you want but are not willing to buy, nothing more than that.

You probably don't like it when people try to tell you how to spend your own money either, I can't understand why anyone would think they'd have the right to do it towards others.

[Zojha]

Correct. It's really no one's business telling others how to spend their money.

More correctly:

If you want to dictate how the money of other people is spent, take it from them and spend it yourself. We call that "taxation". It's legal, if done by representatives of the common people. Not so much if it's done by the common people directly.