It's gone too far about the mog station SE

[kikix12]

(...)Korean/Chinese region items you're going to have to pay for them on the mogstation since it costs SE fees to license it.

I never heard that a company have to pay licence fees to themselves to use their own goods in various countries...And where do the money disappear to if their balance doesn't end at zero after?!

Even if they are requested by a regional publisher, everything in this game is made and owned by Square Enix or at least licensed for FFXIV as a whole. They do not need any additional license for emotes. Now, they can have issues for stuff from other games like music since those are licensed from 3rd party artists, but emotes are developed entirely in-house.

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.

It is silly. If I have a tangerine worth 50 cents and go to two different people trying to sell it for 2$ to each, one of them happens to be really rich while the other have average wealth, the rich person buying it for 2$ is still acting in a silly manner because he could have four by going to a nearby shop instead. The fact that it does not harm him in any way does not change anything.

These items are not worth several dollars. They have costs to make originally, but cost of reproduction are in thousandths of fractions of a cent. Virtually zero. They also have no innate value as being digital goods. As if that wasn't enough, they are a content that is not even a fraction of the whole game, while costing a rather comparable amount. Buying them IS absolutely silly.

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

No. That's what our subscriptions are supposed to cover.
Let's assume that there are "only" 16,567 players actively playing (going by the census). Times 13$, that's 215,371$ every single month. That's over 2,5mln dollars every year. With 16,567 players and no additional expenses...like the retainers. I know personally several people that have multiple retainers. I know even a person that have more than one account and have all the retainers on them just for storing all the crafting/gathering stuff.

And do you really think that there are "only" 16,567 players across all the servers?! When some servers did hit their limits with several hundredths of people in the queue at times?! When Square Enix themselves mentions millions?! At just 0.5mln that's already 6,5mln of dollars a month, 78mln dollars a year.

Yeah, sorry, I don't buy it. The money they got from subscription should be more than enough to pay all the costs of operation and development and there still should be more left for whatever.

[Dyvid]

No. That's what our subscriptions are supposed to cover.
Let's assume that there are "only" 16,567 players actively playing (going by the census). Times 13$, that's 215,371$ every single month. That's over 2,5mln dollars every year. With 16,567 players and no additional expenses...like the retainers. I know personally several people that have multiple retainers. I know even a person that have more than one account and have all the retainers on them just for storing all the crafting/gathering stuff.

And do you really think that there are "only" 16,567 players across all the servers?! When some servers did hit their limits with several hundredths of people in the queue at times?! When Square Enix themselves mentions millions?! At just 0.5mln that's already 6,5mln of dollars a month, 78mln dollars a year.

Yeah, sorry, I don't buy it. The money they got from subscription should be more than enough to pay all the costs of operation and development and there still should be more left for whatever.

And how much does it cost to run and operate FFXIV? Blizzard has been quoted in saying that between 2004 thru 2008 it has cost $200M for upkeep. I'm sure the cost has gone up over the decade but that's $50M yearly.