It's gone too far about the mog station SE

[Soge01]

Honestly, they do need to cut it out with adding so many new things to mogstation that could easily be added in-game.

And the whole "certain limited item discount" options are really getting on my nerves, personally... :/

[SturmChurro]

I'd argue that it's worse than some f2p games if you look at all of the items currently available. WoW's not doing so hot right now, but their cash shop has much less in it. So...when FF XIV's only competition in the sub MMO market can mostly manage with next to nothing on the cash shop for years prior to FF XIV's existence...something's wrong. Very wrong.

Don't get me wrong the pricing is absolutely ridiculous, but they can get away with it, because people keep buying the stuff. People don't buy stuff they'll mark it down.

[Pluvia]

Don't get me wrong the pricing is absolutely ridiculous, but they can get away with it, because people keep buying the stuff.

Also to add onto this it was either pay money or not get these 2 emotes since they're from the Korean servers. Either way I think the emotes are trash and are a waste of space but w/e to each their own and when it comes to this people keep asking for the Korean/Chinese region items you're going to have to pay for them on the mogstation since it costs SE fees to license it.

[Taebok]

Don't blame SE, blame the people silly enough to throw money at them for this stuff.
I'd love a two seater mount, but there's no way I'm paying 30 bucks for one.

[Theodric]

Don't blame SE, blame the people silly enough to throw money at them for this stuff.

There's nothing silly about it. If people want to spend their money on luxury products, then they can spend their money on luxury products.

[Marxam]

There's nothing silly about it. If people want to spend their money on luxury products, then they can spend their money on luxury products.

Pretty much this.

While I hate the fact that I play a game with a sub that also has aggressive cash shop promotions, being "unique" is a very common trope among AAA game today. So it's not uncommon to see developer take advantage of this need by promoting said "unique" items behind real monetary value. People will always want to feel special and different in anything they do so its only smart business to charge those who want a little more. Unfortunately the minority who do buy from the mogstation basically dictate the price which is why you continuously see the prices go up. I remember when emotes used to cost $5 but that was a few years ago.

I voted with my wallet and only pay for the sub, sadly $20 CAD a month now, which is starting to get expensive.

[AnimaAnimus]

It wouldn't be so bad if all of the mounts, minions, emotes, glamour, etc. were account wide. But having the majority limited to a single char is pretty ridiculous, esp at the prices they are asking.

[Hyperia]

The Mogstation pays for our DC upgrades and more, since its glamour, I don't mind.

[Berethos]

WoW's not doing so hot right now, but their cash shop has much less in it. So...when FF XIV's only competition in the sub MMO market can mostly manage with next to nothing on the cash shop for years prior to FF XIV's existence...something's wrong. Very wrong.

Less in it...with a bad habit of putting some of their most polished and unique mounts in the cash shop instead of in the game, and charging more for their similar or worse account services - our race/appearance change is a single $10, they have two separate ones - one that lets you change gender that is $15, and the full race/gender change is $25...also their server transfers are $25 per character, versus our $18 for all characters on a server (and ongoing free if transferring to a new world or from a congested world to a preferred, which is not something they offer either). I can transfer 8 characters for $18. The same amount of characters transferred in WoW would run me $200.

I'm not sure comparing just the number of items sold really gives a clear comparison of the two stores.

[Adrestia]

The Mogstation pays for our DC upgrades and more, since its glamour, I don't mind.

The DC upgrades we’re not getting, instead replaced with a cluster split that saves on SE’s costs at the expense of players no longer being able to play with some of their friends? Please.

It’s a cash cow that’s not being reinvested back into the game at nearly an acceptable rate.