Online store prices are outrageously high!

[JTF-Taru]

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Someone running a game company out of a basement in Kansas can charge less than the person running the game out of an office in Tokyo. Cost of living, office space, supplies, etc. is much less.

What you are doing here is making excuses for companies with high overheads charging more for their content. If you chose to have a plush office in an expensive area, that doesn't in any way mean I should pay £20 for something you should be selling for £5.

Your argument isn't then that the items aren't over-priced. It's admitting they ARE over-priced and you're saying we should understand why and just pay the money. No one who isn’t a serious fanboy is going to do that.

The arguments in the rest of your post have already been replied to and refuted multiple times. Check out the earlier posts.

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Something being over-priced has nothing to do with quitting the game or not. You claimed no one is allowed to compare things that aren't identical. I pointed out this isn’t true as every minute of every day, somewhere on this planet, people compare the prices of different things. Provably so, when you can go onto YouTube and literally see 1000s of videos of people comparing different things, often judging one to be worse value than the other.

So do you appreciate this simple notion yet or do we have another post of exactly the same denials to look forward to in response to this one?

Just because someone doesn't intend to quit FFXIV doesn't mean they cant compare. Comparisons provide good discussion points in general, it's a bit narrow minded to say you cant compare.

Yup – I’ve been telling linayar this for pages but he / she doesn’t listen to anyone who doesn’t agree. It’s just such a ridiculous, illogical (and of course narrow minded) thing to say – telling people they have no right to compare 2 things.

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Copy and paste here anything from my last post to you that was insulting. There isn’t anything. And it is perfectly fine to compare DLC from different genres or from companies with different business models. A simple piece of DLC has a base time and cost and requires the same people to make it no matter whether it's for a fighting game or an MMO. If the MMO company has a business model that requires them to over-charge for items to make a profit, again, all you're doing is admitting the items are over-priced, but you're demanding everyone accept that. You’re just rehashing tired old arguments that have no merit.