$35, really SE?

[Alleo]

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.

Yoshida also said (when they introduced the cash shop) that its only for old events and stuff like name changing and race changing. And yet here we are, with more and more exklusive stuff. Hmm might be because a company would not tell the truth about this right in our faces (as in making more money..). Of course they will say that the mount would not have existed otherwise, of course they will say that this goes purely back into FF14 and that it funds big parts of it..but lets not forget that this is corporate talk..just like EA and other companies want to convince us that certain stuff is necessary..

SE should make a huge amount of money from Fantasia, retainer service, world/name changing and the old event items (items that were once in the game and put into the cash shop afterwards because reasons..). If SE truly needs that money to give us the bascis like new servers than this game (with over 1 million active players...) is really not running that great..

I really doubt that all of those mounts, pets and clothes would not exist ingame if we had no cash shop (and honestly nobody can prove it anyways..) but of course its sounds much better to say it instead of "we just want to earn a huge ton of money".

Edit: It would also be nice to not compare these prices to F2P games..unlike SE who gets a sub these other games need that income to survive..

Cost is ultimately relative. Someone making $30,000 a year will value things very different than someone earning $200,000. You certainly don't have to like the Mogstation, and can readily criticise SE. But insulting others who don't share your viewpoint is just childish.

Value does not come from cost, it comes from what you yourself thing its worth. I could make 100.000 € each year and I would still think that this mount is not worth the price (its value too low) while somone barely getting by might truly want it and say that for the joy it brings its worth the money. (And the price tag of something does not mean that its good and worth that amount)

In the end people (like me) just really dislike the pratice to put these things behind a paywall when people already pay a monthly sub and expansion. Its even more horrible when its a mount that could have easily be an ingame rewards..its horrible that we did not truly get something for the veteran rewards and yet here are mounts that could be put there..I remember the Spriggan who they released with the eastern event..something which it would have perfectly fit..

I will not call someone a bootlicker fo spending their money (but the term whale is a known and used term in the industry), the blame is fully on SE for this..but I really hate the comments that we should just not buy it and accept it..no we can give feedback (without insults of course) and for those of us who wont buy it "content" is lost. I like to collect mounts and minions but I have given up..because without spending money I will never get a whole collection.

Maybe I would be less annoyed if we got much more content since the increase of the cash shop items (and the prices..) but instead we lost another dungeon in Shadowbringer, we lost a Palace of the death kind of content and we got two parts of two races who are limited..