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

[Camiie]

Can't believe how many people defend Square Enix pricing decisions in this. Just so you know op, I'm totally with you.

Yes, those things are optional but the prices are just exploitative.

So what is the correct price exactly? It's easy to say that something is wrong. Now tell us what's right.

[AlliciaCapulet]

So what is the correct price exactly? It's easy to say that something is wrong. Now tell us what's right.

The correct price is free. We pay for the game. We pay a subscription. We pay the expansion. We should have access to everything at least once free in the game, when it's past event items on a cash shop, I don't mind, but when we never had a chance to get them for free, I have troubles with that.

I understand that a game needs income to make patchs, that's why we have a subscription. yes, some of the fees will pay for the server, but it's not 100% of the price of the subscription. If you calculate, we pay 12$ * 12 months, so 144$ for a subscription, and add to that 30$ per year if you buy the digital collector (60$) every 2 years. That makes 174$ US (Since I live in Canada, I will specify that) on the game, for every players. We already pay more than enough for everything.

But, SE is just using FFXIV to make easy money since there is lots of players who are like "this is how the gaming is these days" and accept the situation. On that, we should not be on the side of SE, it's not even Yoshi-p who wants that, it's the greedy direction from SE. There is no way to try to justify that.

It would be ok to just sell past event items, and again, what a right price would be? Something like 5$ since there is so many events in a years, so every new player would be able to buy those and SE could get some extra money.

But, a mount like the fat cat - who is just a larger version of the fat cat minion, so there is not a lot of work there - for 24$... that's just ridiculous, and yet... some people buy it...

[PyurBlue]

I absolutely feel like just about everything in the cash shop is overpriced, so I'll never buy anything from there. I would like to see the current price model fail and be replaced by a better one. The only way to have that happen is to not support the shop.

That said this:

The correct price is free. We pay for the game. We pay a subscription. We pay the expansion. We should have access to everything at least once free in the game, when it's past event items on a cash shop, I don't mind, but when we never had a chance to get them for free, I have troubles with that.

doesn't really make sense. The items on the mogstation don't come from no where. They have to be created by SE. If they need to work to provide us with something it's fair for them to expect payment. Why single outfits or mounts cost half as much as a full game is a total mystery, but there's no reason to expect the devs to give out anything new that they create for free.

[Lambdafish]

So what is the correct price exactly? It's easy to say that something is wrong. Now tell us what's right.

I think the problem isn't the price, but rather pricing disparity, the cloud bike suffers from this the most. First of all, there should be no account wide/single character split, it creates a price divide and causes more problems than helps. Secondly, the gap between two seater and one seater mounts should be lowered. Currently there is a $6 difference to get an extra seat, which I feel should be dropped to $3 (probably coming out to $20 for single seater and $23 for two seater).

Cloud mount should also be $20, the price it is currently sat at is pure greed considering it is a single seater mount.