So, Mog station here we are

[rainichan]

I wonder, how long we will fund their other games, 2 more parts of Seven remake for sure, they even pushed Yoshi to work on 16 . People funding server with extra money for a billionaire company is not an achievement, it's embarrassment.

I'm just going to quote myself on this.

That's not how it works. SE isn't "siphonng" money from the XIV dev team. Every cent that SE makes from ANY IP THAT THEY SELL goes back to the company as a whole. And when I say "any IP they sell", I mean that proceeds from FF7R will go into FFXIV development, it goes into Nier Replicant ver 1.2~, it goes into Dragon Quest, FFXI, and so on and so forth; any money made from those ventures will fund everything else as well. It also goes into: paying their utility bills (lights/water/the insane internet they probably have), paying their employees, and new equipment just to name a few things. That money also goes into the Fanfest gatherings and the planning/acquisition of them and where they're held. They use the money for more as well, I'm sure, this is just a skim of what it's used for.

This is basic Econ101.

As for the rest of the dumb that I got to see with my own two eyeballs, I'm just gonna write this in caps because while someone else mentioned that it's Titania and hm, I wonder:

DID Y'ALL MISS THAT PART IN IL MHEG WHERE THE PIXIES FIND US DULL AND BORING BECAUSE WE AREN'T THEM? I WONDER WHY THEY WORDED AN AD FOR THE PIXIE KING'S ATTIRE LIKE THAT.

It's not that deep and god dang are people reaching for offenses now. Go outside long enough to touch some grass, maybe you'll realize that an offense over an ad telling you to be fabulous like the King of the Fae in a virtual game is kind of dumb.

But make sure to keep 6ft/2m away from anyone else whike you do that.

[yukiiyuki]

Money from 7 also funds XIV. Money gets pooled at a company, then budgeted out accordingly. Extra money from the cash shop is on top of the budget they receive from SE. Its how nearly every company in the world works.

Sounds like wishful thinking, because distribution between projects are not equal, and if you seen their financial annual report, they milking XIV left and right with amount revenue they get from it. Even Yoshi said that they dont have enough funds to do the content, but people are fine and happy with casual stuff replacements, I don't see any reason for SE to direct more funds into XIV.

[Edax]

Sounds like wishful thinking, because distribution between projects are not equal, and if you seen their financial annual report, they milking XIV left and right with amount revenue they get from it. Even Yoshi said that they dont have enough funds to do the content, but people are fine and happy with casual stuff replacements, I don't see any reason for SE to direct more funds into XIV.

Conversely I see no reason for players to white knight for the Mogstation and act like spending money there will help the game. It's SE decision to not give Yoshi the money he needs, not the players.

Take this as a consideration - your goal is to sell the customer something. So if you sell them on feel good feelings and dont need to change a thing, why should they buy your product? If youre already beautiful, why buy make up or skin care from you if they havent done so before and your product cant improve upon what is supposedly there already. Feel good is great for PR, but great PR doesnt always translate into sales. I can like what a company stands for, and not buy one of there products cause 'I dont need it'.

Beauty is something that needs to be preserved. You don't have to tear down your customer to get them to buy your product but you can insist they get the best care for their skin to preserve their beauty and that looking the best will make them feel the best. No advertiser will tell a customer they've achieved already absolute perfection but they may say they could get a step closer to it with their product. Even if a customer believes they are already beautiful, if they care about their beauty, then they will take the next step towards perfection. If they didn't care about their beauty to begin with, telling them they have skin problems might just provoke a grudge when they weren't ever going to buy your product to begin with. Consumers can sense when a company want their money and many will instantly know that company doesn't really care about their health.

No, marketing is about being clever and knowing who you are selling too. Sometimes, some how insinuating the person has a problem they might not even be aware of, and your product can help them with that problem.

And it's entirely possible to make your customers aware of problems they didn't know they had without talking down to them. Maybe they weren't aware of the telltale signs of termites in their house and your advertisement was genuinely informative and resulted in a sale. Rather then insinuate that everyone has a problem, you can reach out the people who actually have problems. Instead of saying "You're always hungry, grab a Snickers", say "Hungry? Grab a Snickers"

[TwiibieTwuu]

Meanwhile me and other male character players are sitting here like: "Just stop releasing dresses, female NPC only gear and feminine looking attires and give me something already".

Not just males. Some ladies of us want something cool for once, we want pants and longcoats dammit.

Males get both cute and cool glams while females are just stuck with cute.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Not just males. Some ladies of us want something cool for once, we want pants and longcoats dammit.

Males get both cute and cool glams while females are just stuck with cute.

We have enough long coats.... No more please.....

We need less gear that goes down to the shins, not more

[TwiibieTwuu]

We have enough long coats.... No more please.....

We need less gear that goes down to the shins, not more

Most are either class locked and/or have a boob window.

[Arillyn]

Beauty is something that needs to be preserved. You don't have to tear down your customer to get them to buy your product but you can insist they get the best care for their skin to preserve their beauty and that looking the best will make them feel the best. No advertiser will tell a customer they've achieved already absolute perfection but they may say they could get a step closer to it with their product. Even if a customer believes they are already beautiful, if they care about their beauty, then they will take the next step towards perfection. If they didn't care about their beauty to begin with, telling them they have skin problems might just provoke a grudge when they weren't ever going to buy your product to begin with. Consumers can sense when a company want their money and many will instantly know that company doesn't really care about their health.

To use your example above, if the customer didn't care about their beauty to begin with, the advertising isn't for them anyway. You don't make ads for everyone who may see it. You target your audience. I see the ad you are complaining about targeting their audience who A) love glamours and B) tend to buy glamours off the mog station. As someone stated earlier, this new glamour is a take in Titania - the king of fairies - royalty and anything less than what royalty would wear could be called "mundane". Seems to me SE knows their target audience for mog station glamours.

[Edax]

To use your example above, if the customer didn't care about their beauty to begin with, the advertising isn't for them anyway. You don't make ads for everyone who may see it. You target your audience. I see the ad you are complaining about targeting their audience who A) love glamours and B) tend to buy glamours off the mog station. As someone stated earlier, this new glamour is a take in Titania - the king of fairies - royalty and anything less than what royalty would wear could be called "mundane". Seems to me SE knows their target audience for mog station glamours.

It is precisely the people who A) love glamours and B) tend to buy glamours off the Mogstation that might not want to be referred to as mundane. I would know because I happen to be in this category, but I happen to also have no interest in that particular glamour nor would I condone the behavior of the fairies who act like rotten bullies. If Emet's outfit ever went up for sale, the sales pitch shouldn't include a pro-genocide stance in the tagline despite that being part of Emet's beliefs. (ex: Purge them all with style!)

[TwiibieTwuu]

Are people really taking flavour text seriously?

[Canada_bangs]

It is precisely the people who A) love glamours and B) tend to guy flamours off the Mogstation that might not want to be referred to as mundane. I would know because I happen to be in this category, but I happen to also have no interest in that particular glamour nor would I condone the behavior of the fairies who act like rotten bullies. If Emet's outfit ever went up for sale, the sales pitch shouldn't include a pro-genocide stance in the tagline despite that being part of Emet's beliefs. (ex: Purge them all with style!)

I dunno... written funny enough it could be a great sales pitch for them. " Ever feel like you're above the rest? Seeing how your peers aren't made for the cut? Do you want to prove your style is far beyond the sights of the many? Then for 12.99 own your very own EMET COAT and walk among your peers in style. Show them you're above the cut. Become Emet today! "