$35, really SE?

[Amnmaat]

The dollar is falling

Since the beginning of the month, the dollar has lost 4.9% against the euro, following a bet that the European Union economy will outperform the U.S. economy. The greenback, in the same period, has fallen 2.5% against the yen; 6.4% versus the Swedish krona and 4% to the New Zealand dollar. In emerging markets, the Brazilian real has risen more than 6%, and the Mexican peso is up 4.9 % against the dollar. China’s currency, controlled by its central bank, is up just about 1% against the dollar in July.

Thank your government

source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/27/doll...ocks-rise.html
date: july 27, 2020

PS. What I'm really wondering is...if FFXIV costumes are costing $18 what are Blade and Soul costumes going for now? $40?

[MariaArvana]

Man, imagine if there was a perfectly free, easy to obtain 4-seater mount for anyone willing to put in a couple hours of work already in-game huh? Who knows, it might have already been in the game for over a year now!

To rehash all the usual points every time people start up the usual complaints over a new mogstation item:

-The team that creates stuff for mogstation is separate from the team that works on FF14; they create stuff for the sole purpose of being sold. There is no guarantee whatsoever that any of the stuff on the mogstation would have ever appeared in-game if it didn't exist on mogstation. From my experience in game-dev though, it's extremely unlikely you'd have seen maybe 3-5% of unique stuff to mogstation in-game; the vast majority of stuff just simply gets canned or shelved indefinitely instead of moving to production stage.

-People waste money on all sorts of useless/one time things all the time. Going out to dinner, alcohol/cigarettes, food delivery services instead of cooking, etc. Most people could easily find a way to save $36 if they look at their spending and decide not to buy that extra chocolate bar each month. And if they're living life on the edge that they can't even save $36, they have far more important things to be worrying about than the price of a digital mount in a video game, tbh. For me, that $35 translates to cooking my family up burgers & hotdogs instead of ordering Pizza on the next time I host a family gathering.

-As I stated above and early in the thread, there's a completely free alternative in-game if you want a 4-seater that just requires a modicum of effort., and a potentially 2nd alternative coming whenever they bring back the FF15 event like they've talked about, it's not like this is the only 4-seater that's available, and wasn't even the first 4-seater ever.

You don't like the price? don't buy it. Still want a 4-seater? Go dust off your rotation and put up a PF for E4s, or wait till FF15 event mk.II, both are perfectly free.

Also personal opinion, I much prefer cool mounts in the mogstation over having them in-game because Square often like to tie ridiculously long grinds to some of the coolest things (Feast, Astrophe, etc, the hunt mounts, the Restoration point mount, etc.) making it near infeasible for 90% of their playerbase to achieve them.

[Nayout]

I've played FFRK since launch and each roll is 43 cdn and good luck getting items I want in 1 roll.

I will always enjoy paying a static price over rng.

I wish i can show the screenshot of me talking to a BnS gm regarding to not getting the accessory after spending 2000 bucks XD

And that's why I only play some gachas, in Granblue Fantasy if I want something I buy a subtix and that's it, if I want a limited character I make Spark. I will always have what I want because the game gives me the options or even in games like Ark Knights or Azur Lane people hardly pay for roll, they pay for Skins.

[Alleo]

And here I was and thought for one second we would get something like that as an ingame rewards...I mean its not like certain achievement points are sitting there useless or how about the veteran sub rewards that you did once and never again? But of course its much easier to just want money for this while the unreal mount is nothing but a copy pasted ugly unicorn...

But after seeing the cash crab that is the new Avengers game I shouldnt be surprised anymore..

[SturmChurro]

How dare you! I can finally RP as Heidi. If she had cat ears.

I don't know who that is.

Here we enter into a good discussion.
I'm not going to buy it but anyway I find it bad, I don't need to be the target of something to see that something is "wrong" in the same way that the target of the Ultimates is not me and I fully understood the complaints of people for not having a third Ultimate in this patch.
And this can be extrapolated to many things within the game or even in other games where certain decisions are "questionable" and I can understand the reasons for those complaints (like what happened recently with FateGO)

The last part of my post was opinion, as I stated. Personally, I probably wouldn't even buy that mount if it started at $15, MAYBE $10 just to have it, otherwise nah. To be fair, I pretty much never buy cash shop mounts in general. I have one in total, that I got on sale, because I kind of liked it.

I never said in my post I agreed with the pricing, I literally stated "enough people don't buy overpriced products, they reevaluate their pricing". Which should infer that I also think this mount is overpriced, for that matter.

[elizeugba]

If you don't care about the price or the mount, what are you doing in this post? defending a multibillionaire company for free? lol. If us as customers think that the price is too high or the product should be a part of the game which we already pay for, we do have the right to complain. Nothing changes just by being quiet about it, and I bet most people that complain will not buy it.

[Gula]

Perfect time to release a ridiculously priced Mount SE! I (and so many others) are practically swimming in cash after being furloughed, laid off or worse due to the worldwide pandemic ravaging most countries, and losing a huge chunk of my income makes it an even more enticing item to get! You was quick to remind us how patient and understanding we should be to help you take more time on patch 5.3 due to this pandemic, so thank you for repaying us like this In these dark, difficult times. It’s important to stand in solidarity with your fellow man, so how about seeing a whole server full of these premium mounts to remind us all that we’re all struggling in this financial catastrophe together.

Now I can’t wait to see the whales who have more money than sense and the bootlickers brigade hiss and spit at us poor plebeians for daring to criticise and mock how ridiculously bad taste the price and timing of this Mount being added to the store is. They might as well add some SE Crysta(l) Water to the store for £99 a bottle, what better way to support this small indie company than partake of the finest tap water money can buy?

This is bait right?

[Cled-cat]

This is bait right?

Anything that’s considered too much of a spicy take against SE or makes people’s brains think too hard is considered bait on these forums, so sure why not buddy.

[Nayout]

This is bait right?

More than bait, I would say that it is an excessively sarcastic comment that serves as a response to some comments D:

[Alleo]

Honestly these cash shop items could be used so much better...just take the big mounts..use them inbetween patches to keep people subbed by giving them out if you sub a certain amount of time in that period (thus even if people dont play they have payed you the money). This will in turn also mean that those that do continue to pay you money (which keeps the game alive..) get something out of it..(taking away the veteran rewards and never truly giving us something back in return is just awful)

And instead of the other and only such reward that we got like that they could put it into the mog station afterwards for everyone to buy if they did not want or could sub at that time..there win win..those who play the game will get their reward and those who did not at the time still can pay the money.