Online store prices are outrageously high!

[Krotoan]

As has already been said, you don't need a majority to keep an online shop going. They don't sell a physical product or a service. It's just code – there's an infinite supply. You can keep a site like that open with a tiny minority especially when you have income from so many other sources.

However they employ modelers, concept artists, coders and QA. Believe me that in a business like that anyone who is dead weight is quickly snipped. If the store wasn't bringing in at least those peoples salaries, let alone a profit enough to do things like upgrading servers, they would have closed down long ago.

And many of those who do use the site, openly admit it's over-priced, but make excuses for buying anyway.

Sounds like it's not over priced then, cause they're still willing to buy things.

I don't have a problem nor am I complaining. I'm doing what you're supposed to do here which is post in FFXIV related threads that interest you. You're the one with the problem complaining about people doing that.

I'm responding to the OP who was whining about how something is too costly and that it should be on sale more often. You came in and tried to argue that they ARE too expensive. Do you remember that part? Sure you're posting in the thread and contributing and I wouldn't dream of telling you to stop giving your opinion.. but I will give mine back.

What has any of that got to do with anything? Someone else brought up that something in the Mog Station costs the same as a Starbucks drink and I pointed out that Starbucks drinks are literally a mainstream example of something that is over-priced. I turned their own point against them by highlighting how 'the market' can keep a company in business but that company can still have a reputation for being over-priced. Just like the Mog Station.

My point being that the prices are similar to everyday conveniences and things you pay for. Experiences that last minutes. If something everyone says is "overpriced" still sells and turns a satisfactory profit for the company, that means the market supports it. That's how economics work.

As for budgeting, that makes even less sense. I have a well paid job and could afford now to buy everything in the Mog Station. I don't like being ripped off so I won't buy anything.


Not liking being ripped off /= being poor necessarily.

Good for you. Several thousand people have average jobs and still see the value in the items for sale and buy them.
Saying you're being ripped off when the market clearly supports the pricing and hollering that everyone else should think the same hints that maybe you need some perspective on the actual value of items.

To Krotoan, Violet_Galaxy, Kes13a and any others, you're just posting the same things over and over which is just necessitating the same replies. Your arguments have been responded to and rejected.

By you. Great. This doesn't mean they're wrong.. or right really.. just that you cannot accept them.

It's not valid to say people can't compare FFXIV DLC with DLC from any other site. Humans compare things all the time from different brands and models.

And comparing very different things with a few similarities is a bad comparison.

You don't need a majority to keep a site like the Mog Station open. It sells DLC. Not products or services. It only needs a small number of sales to keep it open, especially when the company that owns it has multiple revenue sources.

If you don't like the fact people are going to highlight the high prices of the Mog Station, I suggest just staying out of this thread. That's where those people are most likely to be.

I've already pointed out that if the mogstation represents it's own department with it's own staff that need to be paid. If they were making little to no sales the idea would have been scrapped.
I don't have an aversion to hearing complaints about the price, I'm here, like you, to discuss my POV on how they're wrong. I also like to point out to people that they're being very silly about reasonable prices by providing perspective on what they pay every day/week/month for far less value.