Quote Originally Posted by Krotoan View Post
"Far too expensive" for you. You have the problem. The market is there for people buying it at it's current pricepoint. That is what sets the price, not what you personally want to pay for it. What you are outraged about paying once, EVER for your character, many average people spend on 1-10 minute experiences. You can buy a starbucks drink.. or have a new emote for your character. You can get a pretty nice dinner.. or you can have a 4 person mount that you get to use until you stop your sub. Perspective is important as well

Except provably not. Many other (just as popular) games actually charge MORE for less. Considering FFXIV is mostly designed to have maybe 1 character per server (I'm not saying you can't have alts, just that you can experience pretty much everything the game has to offer on one character), the price per item applying to one character is very reasonable.
But it isn't just me. I'm not the one who started the thread. Nor am I one of the many other people who have all pointed out how over-priced these items are. Plenty of people have pointed this out. So that's not true.

A small number of people being prepared to overpay for something doesn't make a market nor define how the majority think.

The reasons being used to try and defend the prices make no sense. People are saying things like 'I usually buy a Starbucks drink for $6 so paying $6 for an emote (or whatever) is fine. I'll just go without my Starbucks drink for a day.'

But Starbucks is literally the go-to example when people talk about how over-priced street shop drinks are. Defending over-paying for one thing because you usually over-pay for another thing doesn't make it okay.

And the argument that the drinks aren't over-priced as Starbucks is a successful company so the market is happy to pay their prices isn't valid either. There are 7.6 billion people on the planet. Only a tiny minority of those think paying exorbitant prices for a drink is okay. But enough do to keep the company in business. Doesn't stop Starbucks having their deserved reputation for over-priced drinks no matter what the 'market' says.

There is an objective notion of over-pricing and the Mog Station is very much in the same category as Starbucks.

Also it's provable that the items are over-priced. Many, many games give you much more for less money or at least comparable items for less.