The whale mount is up on Mogstation

[Sigma-Astra]

It all sets a trend. Companies test the waters to see what they can get away with, and if sales are good, they will continue with that course and possibly add more to it later. If it works well for them, other companies may follow. It's been the same with the cash shop. It started "small", then emotes started getting tossed in. Music entered the scene at some point. Holiday items got added. MSQ skipping books and level potions are the more recent additions. It's all slow, but it creeps. When people grab new items instantly, it shows a pattern and lets the company that the pricing/item is acceptable.

So yeah, I get the point they're making, and I don't disagree. I just can't spare the concern anymore when it comes to XIV. I've turned quite apathetic :P

I suppose, but it's out of people's hands for the longest of time. You literally cannot stop people from buying something that they may want. It's a pointless and futile endeavor to be angry over at the people. SE and the Cash Shop? Sure, go ahead. But, at the people buying said things? It just makes you look petty honestly, imo, lol.

[MomomiMomi]

I suppose, but it's out of people's hands for the longest of time. You literally cannot stop people from buying something that they may want. It's a pointless and futile endeavor to be angry over at the people. SE and the Cash Shop? Sure, go ahead. But, at the people buying said things? It just makes you look petty honestly, imo, lol.

Business just follow the trends. They're doing what makes them money. Can't be angry at them for that. It's the consumers who set the trends.

And I'm not angry at any individual people. It's consumers in general who are disappointing. They have lost sight of consumer responsibility to themselves. It's a consumer's responsibility to get businesses to offer them the best deals. Not the business's.

[Sigma-Astra]

Business just follow the trends. They're doing what makes them money. Can't be angry at them for that. It's the consumers who set the trends.

That's a hypocritical stance and very contradicting of you disliking the existence of the Cash Shop entirely, but yet not finding the fault of the blame on SE and instead placing it on the players. If you're not okay with people buying items, then you shouldn't be okay with the idea of the Cash Shop existing either.

People wouldn't be spending $30 on a whale mount if the Cash Shop didn't exist.

And who made the Cash Shop, I wonder....certainly not us, unless a few choice people on the forums want to come clean that they were the web designers and coders who implemented the Cash Shop as an e-commerce. :O

It's a consumer's responsibility to get businesses to offer them the best deals. Not the business's.

Uh...that's not entirely how economics works. It is the business's job to offer the best deals towards their customers in order to retain a higher turnaround of customer satisfaction and larger, gross profits margins...and I'd say that the customer turnaround for satisfaction regarding the Cash Shop is meeting that quota, as well as the profits margins for continuing to offer different items. The Cash Shop is an e-commerce website and it is doing exactly what it is suppose to be doing regardless.

When I shop online, I go to Amazon.com because they offer the better deals on most things. That is their job or people wouldn't be shopping there.

That's not to say that anything on the Cash Shop could be considered a deal, but it's the only place where you can buy said items, so without any competition, it is what it is.

[Zephera]

And I'm not angry at any individual people. It's consumers in general who are disappointing. They have lost sight of consumer responsibility to themselves. It's a consumer's responsibility to get businesses to offer them the best deals. Not the business's.

Like it or not, people will take this as an attack against themselves because you're tarring with a broad brush.