$35, really SE?

[Juicymama]

Look, these cash shop exclusive items would not exist in the first place if cash shop doesn't exist.

These are not things they made during the creation of the patch and then striping it out just to put a price tag on.

Time and time again Yoshi P has remind us the cash shop design team is separate from normal story team.

So stop saying such item was originally part of the game and they take it out just to put a price on it, it's not.

Do people that ride on economy on a flight complaint about people riding on First Class? It's the same plane come on? No , because it's an optional service. Just like anything cash shop related, it's optional. OPTIONAL!
You'd still get to the same destination. Someone with a 35 US mount is not going to ride 10x faster than someone with a e4s mount.

[Arngrim_Greyashe]

All good. It just gives me flashbacks to when someone tried to discredit a comment of mine simply because I was wearing the frog-head costume at the time. My fantastic fashion-sense shouldn't be a factor in most conversations (but maybe it will win me some adoring fans?).

I mean you get positive points for wearing the frog head, in my opinion! I wouldn't discredit anyone's opinion based on appearance, just that cat boy who is outright raging on this thread and throwing a childish temper tantrum because why act like that over an optional item in a video game, am I right? I'm sure you'll win some fans, though!

[Haruka_R]

So if you have an issue with the price... dont buy it?

And sorry it is true the proceeds go directly to XIV development, so while yes SE does absolutely profit from XIV having a cash shop that helps fuel development costs directly isn’t exactly a bad business practice whether you like it or not.

Is it expensive sure.. probably won’t buy it myself but im not going to say “it shouldn’t be that expensive” or take issue with the cash shop, im just not going yo buy it and continue playing the game like an adult.

Thank you.

[Skivvy]

Time and time again Yoshi P has remind us the cash shop design team is separate from normal story team.

So stop saying such item was originally part of the game and they take it out just to put a price on it, it's not.

SE gets to allocate where funding is spent, what teams are created, who does what and where their focus lies.

Cash shop items may be worked on by a separate team, but that still falls back to SE intentionally choosing to put the focus on the cash shop. They very well could have made a team that focused on creating super duper awesome in-game content that rewarded some of those very same items. Who's to say that if they didn't focus so much on the cash shop items that we wouldn't see some of that trickle down into the game? I don't think any of us here are privy to the inner workings of SE, so who really knows.

Generally speaking though, I get it. Micro transactions are a thing, and they're here to stay. I've bought plenty of things from the mogstation myself. Can't say I'm proud, but I'm extremely weak when it comes to fluff. However, that doesn't mean that I'm happy with the way they've implemented their cash shop. It's far too heavy-handed for my liking.

Combine that with getting less content in game as of late, more restrictions on how things are implemented, on top of the issues the game has already had..it feels a bit insulting to see the cash shop still chugging along at a healthy clip while the game is suffering in other places.

So here's where we come full circle with 'but the cash shop is handled by a different team!'. That's fantastic, sure. But perhaps they should put a bit more effort into the other teams who are designing game content, working on fixing bugs, responsible for adding limited races, etc...

[NanaWiloh]

SE gets to allocate where funding is spent, what teams are created, who does what and where their focus lies.

Cash shop items may be worked on by a separate team, but that still falls back to SE intentionally choosing to put the focus on the cash shop. They very well could have made a team that focused on creating super duper awesome content in game that rewarded some of those very same items. Whose to say that if they didn't focus so much on the cash shop items that we wouldn't see some of that trickle down into the game? I doubt any of us here are privy to the inner workings of SE.

Generally speaking though, I get it. Micro transactions are a thing, and they're here to stay. I've bought plenty of things from the mogstation myself. Can't say I'm proud, but I'm extremely weak when it comes to fluff. However, that doesn't mean that I'm happy with the way they've implemented their cash shop. It's far too heavy-handed for my liking.

Combine that with getting less content in game as of late, more restrictions on how things are implemented, on top of the issues the game has already had..it feels a bit insulting to see the cash shop still chugging along at a healthy clip!

So here's where we come full circle with 'but the cash shop is handled by a different team!'. That's fantastic, sure. But perhaps they should put a bit more effort into the other teams who are designing game content, working on fixing bugs, responsible for adding limited races, etc...

I wish SE would give the Devs a larger budget and bigger staff. Sorry but the mogstation may bring extra money into the game but its become clear its not enough given the amount of sacrifices they have to make at times.

[ErysNight]

Not reading 22 pages, just wanted to come and say for the Dev Team, you have customers willing to pay this price.

Saw it was up and instantly bought 2 of them and the glam. I like that the mogstation funds go directly to the game whereas the sub goes to SE to reallocate on other games.

The fact that the store is optional, and not pay to win is a big bonus to me and I don't feel pressured to get things that I don't need.

$36 for an account wide 4 person mount is not too much money for some of us and I hope you keep developing other cool things for us.

Thanks for all that you do!

[Skivvy]

I wish SE would give the Devs a larger budget and bigger staff. Sorry but the mogstation may bring extra money into the game but its become clear its not enough given the amount of sacrifices they have to make at times.

I really do feel for the Devs. I could be completely wrong here, but I do feel like they love the game and try their best, but probably have a lot of hurdles in their way (be that either staffing, funding, iffy coding etc).

[Nayout]

I wish SE would give the Devs a larger budget and bigger staff. Sorry but the mogstation may bring extra money into the game but its become clear its not enough given the amount of sacrifices they have to make at times.

And this is just what many have complained, that SE are rats and we have to finance by buying things in a store in a game where it seems that the increase in subscribers only serves to finance non-ffxiv projects. In the end, the only ones harmed by this are the players

[Vespar]

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Submitted an in-game bug for this one. its so weird XD

[Yencat]

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Submitted an in-game bug for this one. its so weird XD

That happens quite a lot with those boots, certain positions just turn them into banana feet lol