Over-priced Microtransactions!!! PLEASE FIX THIS!!!

[MPNZ]

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Our subs are actually paying back debts incurred by 1.0 and are being used to make game like FF15 and the FF7 remake with a few others rumored or fully official like Kingdom Hearts 3 to everything from all of the remasters to as far as "left alive" (Front Mission) et cetera. And, many of the playerbase believe that most of the money from the cash shop actually benefits FF14. For more information: please watch these documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0yQKI7Yw4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ9C...x4HT5oBemN23vr

[Crystal_Raven]

In a way, I do agree that some of the stuff on the store is overpriced, but I don't agree with the OP, just hear me out here before you make up your mind.

I live in a country where the average salary is about 250-300 euros. Keeping that in mind, the average month for house utilities, food, water, electricity and such eat up about 150 euros, for simplicity sake, let's say you have 150 euros left over.

The sub is 13.99, that leaves you with 136 euros. And a single mount can be 20 euros if not more.

I'm sorry but personally, I find that kind of ridiculous. Mind you I did NOT take into account any extra expenditures such as fuel for a car, or clothes, or lingerie, or any of that.

I would love for regional pricing to be a thing, I do want to buy extra things and support the game, however, with the prices on the store as expensive as they are, more often than not, it's just not a possibility. The worst part in all of this, I'm actually above the average salary by quite a bit. And I STILL cannot afford stuff from the store too often.

[Wanzer]

Compared to other F2P MMOs, FF14's microtransation shop is HELLA cheap. Even taking the monthly sub into account.

Well, yeah, because they are F2P to begin with, FFXIV isn't one of them. The other popular sub-mmo has a cash shop as well, and unfortunately, FFXIV's one isn't any better than WoW's. Just with the number of items available and since how many years they both exist, FFXIV doesn't look that good in comparison.

3) Because the mogstation-money is apparently the only money FFXIV makes that goes directly back into the game - our sub-money is used to fund other SE-projects aswell.

Nobody knows, unfortunately. :/

I say this in every thread like this and I'll say it again: the outfits and mounts that we get (that are not tied to seasonal events/fanfests) are from the China and/or Korean version of FFXIV, which is run differently than ours. They have to pay for these items over there, we requested them, so now we're getting them, and we have to pay as well.

As far as I know, all copyrights still seem to be own by Square Enix, no matter the country (as we can see on both chinese and korean FFXIV websites). But if you have any official statement that confirm the opposite that would be very helpful to me since this keeps coming back and forth.


I'm just wondering... Would it be so difficult to accept that Square Enix is maybe like any other company? That they just want to make money like anyone else? And that today there is probably no other reason for the microtransactions to exist?

[Vereleisk]

The mogstation items are OPTIONAL.
I buy from time to time, and if it helps funding stuff to the game i'm fine by it.
If you're not, then pass on these items.
Not everything should be given to you for free!

[Krotoan]

6 pages and no response from OP. Think they're done.

[Derio]

Its optional. And it helps support the game. Why do you think they were able to almost double the budget they had for HW with ShB?

[Selova]

No idea why people think that just because you pay a monthly subscription that it somehow means they shouldn't have a optional cash shop.

If people had any idea just how much work goes into designing costumes and making sure the meshes fit the model you'd realize they are most definitely not overpriced.

[linay]

Sadly for us (players) SE just keeps getting more avaricious by giving less value for the money spent, the Black Fat Chocobo being a great example, it is account-wide in Japan but single-character in North America!...

Yeah, but I think you have to do something specific in Japan. In NA (US?), you have the option to buy things you may want, including FFXIV game time, so you essentially get a single character mount for free. I still want it to be account wide, but I think it's still a good offer unless you're like me and have issues with deleting characters left and right. (That's why I'll wait before applying the code on a character I want.)

[linay]

Cosmetic only? Not quite! Two-seater mounts provide a unique advantage over other people. So does that Motorcycle that'll give faster mount speed in SB. (Though the introduction of the 4 seater car kinda invalidates the two-seater mount argument, lol. So good on them!). It used to be you couldn't get a two-seater unless you paid money or you had a friend recruit you and pay for a sub. Either way--someone had to pay!

At least the two-seater mount is account-wide, so I think the cost is fair.

[Amariel34]

@OP

Sadly for us (players) SE just keeps getting more avaricious by giving less value for the money spent, the Black Fat Chocobo being a great example, it is account-wide in Japan but single-character in North America!...

Actually, people have said that it WAS single character in Japan too. But they didn't limit the codes you could get to "one per person." So if you bought more chicken, you could get another code. And another. Enough for multiple characters. But with Amazon it's "one per account." I know, semantics. Just informing though.