$35, really SE?

[Yencat]

Price seems fine to me, it's a cosmetic mount that has no effect or advantage on gameplay. It doesn't take anything from anybody who doesn't buy it, so there's not really any reason to be upset.
Like all new items on the store you can think of it as donating some money to help your favorite MMO keep going strong, while getting a cool cosmetic item in the process.

Donating? Are we not paying for expansions and monthly subs?

I'm not anti cash shop but the hoops people will jump through to justify it are staggering.

[Siegrand]

Donating? Are we not paying for expansions and monthly subs?
I'm not anti cash shop but the hoops people will jump through to justify it are staggering.

Well you're getting to play the expansion you paid for, and your monthly sub is the service you pay for playing each month.
Optional items on the store are likely developed on the side, with the development cost being covered by the price of the item.

[Nayout]

Well you're getting to play the expansion you paid for, and your monthly sub is the service you pay for playing each month.
Optional items on the store are likely developed on the side, with the development cost being covered by the price of the item.

People who work in videogames are already paid for doing what they are doing, Square should give the money for the achievements of FFXIV and not the users.
But reading it seems that we have to buy in the store so that the complaints about content can be solved.