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

[Thaldor]

I love the fact that the cash shop is called Optional items.

Its literally all cosmetics and you don't need it.

Since when don’t you need a Fat cat mount?

[Vidu]

All this being said, people would complain from here to Sunday if they locked entire outfits like those you find on the cash shop behind content like Ultimate. Let’s be real here: they’re never going to do that.

...considering how often we're already seeing threads just about dyeable raidgear being locked behind doing Savage, this sounds like a pretty accurate assumption.

[Mistyregions]

...considering how often we're already seeing threads just about dyeable raidgear being locked behind doing Savage, this sounds like a pretty accurate assumption.

Let them complain, it's our reward for our effort.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

what would you say if the things you want the most from mog station instead was from baldesion arsenal or ultimate fights

Or how about ranked PVP rewards, where only a hundred people on the entire data center can obtain them...

[Drayce1]

Or how about ranked PVP rewards, where only a hundred people on the entire data center can obtain them...

Id say, quit crying, git gut, and earn them.

[NekoHina]

My catgirl happily sits on top of her precious fat cat mount (worth every penny, btw) and waves to the OP while loudly meowing, “˚₊✩‧.: ♪*.₍⸍⸌̣ʷ̣̫⸍̣⸌₎.｡Nyahhhh”❣!!

[Avyiur]

$24 for a mount that you will buy once but it will be available to all of your characters should you make an alt for whatever reason. Yep...totally a rip off being able to always have an account wide optional mount available to you whenever you need it.
/sarcasm


For real though in terms of items from the cash shop, FFXIV prices are decent, especially when compared to WoW. If you can't afford a $24 optional mount then that sucks but its not going to be the end of the world.
(ESO prices are rough estimates based off of Crown purchase prices)

Account Wide Mounts:
FFXIV - $24 - $30
WoW - $25 (used to be $30)

Single Character Mounts:
FFXIV - $12
ESO - $10 - $30 (I couldn't tell if these mounts were single character or account wide)
WoW - None

Minions:
FFXIV - $5 - $6.99
WoW - $10
ESO - $5 - $12

Race Change:
FFXIV - $10 (Fantasia)
WoW - $25
ESO - $25

Appearance Change:
FFXIV Mostly free w/ the Aesthetician, otherwise $10 (Fantasia)
WoW - $15 (can't change race, only your sex and your racial features not available by the barber)
ESO - $10 (I don't know if ESO has a barber or aesthetician type npc)


Faction Change:
FFXIV - No Equivalent
WoW - $30
ESO - No Equivalent


Server Transfer:
FFXIV - $18
WoW - $25
ESO - None

Name Change:
FFXIV - $10
WoW - $10
ESO - $20

(Was actually surprised WoW and FFXIV are the same price)


If you really want to go talk about getting ripped off and over priced microtransactions, go play any game that has either loot boxes or is a free to play game lol. FFXIV is fairly cheap in comparison and it's all optional.

[MOZZYSTAR]

The fat cat mount, for example, is $24.00! It is just a single mount and yet it costs more than an expansion for the game. The expansion includes all kinds of shit, and is somehow cheaper than this one object in t0he game.

The fact that it's the same price as a full game is why I'll never buy mounts. I understand that most of them are "account-wide" but I think having more than 2 characters is kind of the minority (i.e. the account wide feature is not very valuable). That being said, I know that it's also expensive to design and model additional features, like mounts... but I personally just can't afford them. I don't think I would even want to afford them when they cost as much as a game.

I don't know their sales, but I kind of think that they would be able to make more money in the long run if they made their items cheaper. If people see they're in an "affordable price range," the more likely they're going to buy them.The more mounts or emotes or whatever they sell, the more able they are to pay the artists/programmers. The profit margin is probably too high, but I honestly wouldn't know. It's not my field. If the mounts were between $10 & $15 (something like that), I would definitely snap all of them up along the way for myself and even for my friends on special occasions.

That being said, I do buy the dances and rarely minions for myself and for friends when on sale. Usually for something special like a birthday present. A minion or a dance costs about as much as a decent card with a little something extra so I like them for things like that. So, the price of minions and dances/emotes usually don't bother me. If they're in the more expensive range, I just gloss over them.

[Aramina]

Server Transfer:
FFXIV - $18
WoW - $25
ESO - None

Even a better deal on FFXIV than just the surface price. FF is for all characters on that server, so if you have 5 characters on that server it is still $18, on WoW it would be $25*5=$125.

[Annoynymoose]

Even a better deal on FFXIV than just the surface price. FF is for all characters on that server, so if you have 5 characters on that server it is still $18, on WoW it would be $25*5=$125.

Wait, it's THIS expensive on WoW?