Quote Originally Posted by Canada_bangs View Post
Gamers are greedy. I kindof want to walk up to these store haters and ask if I can get them to make me stuff for free and no work. Because thats what they are asking SE to do. Your sub money only pays for you to play the game.. it does not pay for anything made for the mogstation. If you want it too then prepare to pay double for your sub. Are you willing to pay 35 to 40 bucks to just play the game?
As a whole, this viewpoint is really odd to me. Not just talking about with XIV or even just MMOs. But baaaack in my day (yes, I'm older), I remember a time where games didn't come with DLC or microtransactions. The industry has obviously changed, and they've learned that they can get away with charging people extra for additional content that they leave out of their games. On the company's side, that makes perfect sense to me. Charge your customers what you can get away with, make that money. But what does confuse me a bit is how strongly some consumers will actually defend having microtransactions in games as if they're a wonderful thing.