Online store prices are outrageously high!

[Kes13a]

That isn't being objective. That's called seeking out and cherry picking one study / example that fits the narrative you want to push, while ignoring hundreds / thousands of examples that don't fit your world-view.

Gaming is full of games that have much cheaper DLC.

If someone offered you £1,000,000 to find 50 examples of games that have cheaper DLC than FFXIV and gave you 24 hours to do it, you're telling me you'd just sit there refreshing the WoW page, wringing your hands that you're going to lose the money?

I'm pretty sure you'd find 50 games and in a lot less time than 24 hours. So just stop with this...

People know what DLC costs and FFXIV is above the norm for what you'd expect to pay.

What's even worse is that you deliberately chose one company with high prices to compare against.

You could have picked The Elder Scrolls Online for example. Its mounts (for PS4) range from $9 to $25 CAD, but (assuming you're telling the truth and WoW is $32 to $38 CAD), you spent a while searching for the dearest DLC you could find to try and push the notion that FFXIV prices are decent.

What I don't understand is why linayar isn't jumping down your throat telling you that you can't compare WoW DLC with FFXIV DLC as they aren't both FFXIV DLC and therefore aren't comparable.

If someone bet you $1000 of your own money they could find 10 games with cheaper DLC than FFXIV would you take that bet? You're confident they'd lose, right? I'm thinking you wouldn't take that bet...

I was comparing comparable items. Both games are subscription based, so the comparison seemed better than your generic "full of games that have much cheaper DLC" without coming up with anything comparable or checkable.

As for why I choose WoW, I play it, so I went there. Elder Scrolls, is not a sub based game. it is Free to play... and their appearance change is usually 1000 Crowns, which works out to around $10. Its also a game where you likely have a few alts and not sure if teh mounts are account wide, but really, they want and need you to spend money on crowns, and people will spend far more in a F2P game than a sub is typically worth.

as for bets etc. I can easily find games with cheaper or more expensive DLC if we are just talking any game online in the industry. personally I would be stupid to take it without conditions such as type of game, is there a subscription, things you are glossing over in your comparisons.

its all very good to come up with a statement, without anything to back it up.

so, as for cherry picking... all I did was picked a similar business model, which you seem loathe to actually consider (and the store is easy access since its on the launcher on my desktop.. no internet searching or hand wringing involved)

If you want a market wide analysis, better be prepared to come at with me with more than low grade insults and vague facts.