Quote Originally Posted by Pepsi_Plunge View Post
It is pretty petty... for a game that is already charging us money to add a new mount that they have already put into the game TWICE and trying to charge another 17 € just because this time it's red coloured instead of blue and yellow.



Yes, now that's the thing. Maybe I am old schooled or old fashioned or whatever about my video games, but I neither like to spend real money on virtual items for a game I already have bought AND paying a monthly fee for it, nor do I like to see items in a game that you can't get just by playing the game.



How is that even the same? Why are you mixing it up? In a video game you should be able to get the things you want by spending in-game money you earned IN game. That's my point and in real life it's just the same: I don't mind if someone drives a car I can't affort irl and I don't mind if someone is riding a mount in game I can't affort because I don't have enough gil or because I'm not good enough at beating the content (yet). It's not because I can't effort it myself. I could, it wouldn't hurt me financially, it just doesn't feel right to me in regard to my point of view about video games. It would be different if FF14 was a F2P (=/= p2w) like Path of Exile, LoL, Fortnite etc. where they need to finance themself through cosmetics, but we are talking about a p2p-game.



I do. I would say I'm working toward my own house. Or a new car. Or the next vacation trip (whenever that will be). But I would never say I work my actual job to earn the rl-money I need for an in-game item. Or are you are saying you prefere to "work toward" an item by working extra time irl in a rl-job to earn the rl-money to just buy the item instead of playing the same time in-game to get it there directly without any rl-money involved?
So going off your post, you only got ARR right? Since buying HW, SB and SB2 would be against your wishes correct? If you bought any of those then your point about the mogstation is moot.