It's gone too far about the mog station SE

[reivaxe]

I'm against the very idea of a big cash shop for a p2p game. It encourages them to hoard things for the cash shop to push more 2x dipping.

I would be fine with it if we could see the money going into the game. Doesn't seem like the case, this expac had no new race and very lacking glam/ gear with no where near enough interesting emotes to me.
It would make more sense to me if EVERYTHING you buy was account wide. This game is so alt unfriendly.

[Vahlnir]

It would make more sense to me if EVERYTHING you buy was account wide. This game is so alt unfriendly.

I agree that everything should be account wide but the game is "alt unfriendly" because everything can be done on 1 character. Not everyone levels alts...though I guess not everyone sticks to 1 character either. Games like WoW promote alt leveling. FF XIV simply doesn't for the most part. People can level alts in this game but it's also kind of a pain.

[Dyvid]

You should know by now Adrestias posts are facts regardless of having any actual information to back it up.
All they are trying to do is impose their own opinion on others as the definitive truth with their only proof being random posts of 'scientific information by bedroom dwellers' who have nothing better to do than create random conspiracies about gaming.
I dont even have to check which server to know where they are from.The kind of accusations being thrown around only would come from one area as will the people liking their posts.
I wont mention where as this could get me in trouble with mods but you can probably guess for yourselves.
I just ignore this posts now because you may as well be talking to a brick wall.

Agreed, there was only one post that had a valid argument being about retainers, everything is meh unless you're a collection purist. I stand by my statements.

I'm against the very idea of a big cash shop for a p2p game. It encourages them to hoard things for the cash shop to push more 2x dipping.

I would be fine with it if we could see the money going into the game. Doesn't seem like the case, this expac had no new race and very lacking glam/ gear with no where near enough interesting emotes to me.
It would make more sense to me if EVERYTHING you buy was account wide. This game is so alt unfriendly.

I disagree here. 4.0 brought big changes in combat, inventory space, new housing wards, Eureka is large, Ivalice raid with guest writer, Yasumi Matsuno (I mention this because his isn't a SE employee), Blue Mage, Data Center / World Visiting, etc.

[Adrestia]

I dont even have to check which server to know where they are from.The kind of accusations being thrown around only would come from one area as will the people liking their posts.

What rofl. What even is this? I’m on Coeurl and originally from Behemoth. Is there something no one is telling me? Lolol.

[Hyperia]

I agree that everything should be account wide but the game is "alt unfriendly" because everything can be done on 1 character. Not everyone levels alts...though I guess not everyone sticks to 1 character either. Games like WoW promote alt leveling. FF XIV simply doesn't for the most part. People can level alts in this game but it's also kind of a pain.

Due to the way the Mogststion was created, they are very limited in the total number of account wide items. They can only have so many so they reserve it for special items or high priced items. This was from Yoshi himself. He wants to offer more accountwide options but he is limited by the Mogststion. Rebuilding the station and all of the database entries, historical purchases, etc. is just not in the cards.

[Iscah]

I feel like there could be some sort of compromise on giving Mog Station gear to multiple characters, even if it can't officially be marked account-wide because of the restrictions.

One way could be an option (higher-priced than a single character item) to purchase an item and have it sent to all your current characters, though it won't be applied to any future characters like an account-wide item would be.

Or let us purchase additional copies of the item for a reduced price.

[SturmChurro]

I feel like there could be some sort of compromise on giving Mog Station gear to multiple characters, even if it can't officially be marked account-wide because of the restrictions.

One way could be an option (higher-priced than a single character item) to purchase an item and have it sent to all your current characters, though it won't be applied to any future characters like an account-wide item would be.

Or let us purchase additional copies of the item for a reduced price.

Problem is with the prices as they are they should be account wide. They are exorbitant for single character. Reduced price, if they did that would just put it at what it should be in the first place, and still be too high, guaranteed.

[Iscah]

Problem is with the prices as they are they should be account wide. They are exorbitant for single character. Reduced price, if they did that would just put it at what it should be in the first place, and still be too high, guaranteed.

Well, that too. But whatever price they charge, I would still appreciate being able to buy the same costume for two of my characters at a discounted rate from the single price. In my case it might convince me to buy something I wouldn't buy otherwise. But I regard it as something to be bought from very sparingly in the first place.

[Hamada]

We don’t need to know their internal operating costs, and here’s why.

Either they’re in line with the rest of the industry, in which case we only have to know what the standard is. My last three employers have been an internet carrier and two software development studios, the first focused on delivery of massive scale web content. I have been involved in these decision making processes and have seen how we’ve shaped our datacenter strategy to compete in today’s world.

OR

They’re not in line with the rest of the industry and are incurring much higher costs due to poor choices. If that’s the case, how long is it justifiable for us to continue paying for those poor choices? The datacenter move they performed for Stormblood was undeniably expensive and difficult, but there are still significant enough lag, stability, and DoS problems for a lot of players, and we’re still being denied basic requests because “server limitations.” Now, they plan to perform a logical reshuffling of the servers in the hopes of social engineering the players into being their load balancing solution. Remember how well that worked with Road to 60 and all the perks for transferring to vacant servers? Yeah not so well.

If they were ponying up the cash to do infrastructure the right way instead of the cheap and easy way, I could at least feel like they were reinvesting an appropriate amount of their profits into improving the game for us. But they’re not, so I don’t even have that.

Well said, it is clear they should be doing more.

[Zarkovitch]

Oh thanks! Happy New Year you too!