I feel like a lot of people do not understand the cost of a subscription and what it goes towards, in a lot of these threads you see people complain that they pay a sub and still have to pay for store stuff... the sub covers the costs for you to play the game, the upkeep of the game, maintenance and server fees, and development for upcoming content. Optional content is pretty much entirely funded by the cash shop and the cash shop in turn further funds development because it goes directly to the developers and not SE, mainly because SE takes the sub money and just tosses it in a giant pile that keeps SE running, by extension this covers FFXIV but it sure as hell ain't paying overtime so you can have a chariot or a recolored mount or a tiny hat. Fantasia costs money not because re-editing your character is drain on the servers, it costs money because the dev team NEEDS money, in an ideal world fantasia would just be a feature of the game and not an item in the store, but this ain't an ideal world... it's a world where money keeps those gears turning and underpaid employees are milked for every ounce of motivation.

It's perfectly fine to be upset about a price SE might set on this stuff, it's perfectly fine to be upset if they locked dyes or something to the online store, it's perfectly fine to be upset if the next relic step required a mogstation purchase.

But to expect that your sub should cover any and all game related costs is just silly, is there ANY sub game that doesn't have an optional cash shop? World of Warcraft is making metric assloads of money hand over fist and their development time is really quick considering how their engine is optimized and they have a massive staff working on it, even they have a cash shop where you can buy mounts and glamor items, the single best selling MMO of all time has an optional cash shop and a sub fee. They're making nearly a billion dollars a year in nothing but sub fees and it's not enough that all content is free in game, there is just no way this unrealistic ideal can ever happen, to further show how powerful a cash shop is you can play games that survive SOLELY on cash shop sales, they're a key component to pretty much every MMO that exists on the market.

Whenever I see someone comment something like: "15$ for a dress in a game I already pay sub for" I die a little inside...