Online store prices are outrageously high!

[Kes13a]

Literally making money out of thin air, must be nice.

I begin to see what the complaint is..

SE should be a charity and operate at a loss. unfortunately, few businesses in the world can do this and stay afloat, employees want to be paid, bills have to be paid.

as for "thin air", I would not call development costs exactly free. If you feel this way do you or have you ever bought music? bought a book?

[sleepy-bear]

Depends on what you're looking to buy imo. Old seasonal glam, emotes and minions are an okay price. The mounts and exclusive costume sets are pretty steep, but they're understood to be the top-tier luxury items so whatever. Fantasia needs either a heavier bulk discount or some kind of buyer insurance. Job/story boosts are expensive, but somewhat justified in the sheer amount of time they save and how they need to be cost-prohibitive in order to discourage new players from chugging them.

I think the best thing they could do to adjust prices is simply have sales more often. Or maybe do a little rewards program where spending a certain amount gives you some crysta, or whatever it's called?

[MsMisato]

Dear SE,

Where is my 8 man mount airship at on the store. I would gladly pay for it

[Coletergeist]

I would totally buy an 8-man mount, even despite having no friends :,D

[Tint]

I begin to see what the complaint is..

SE should be a charity and operate at a loss. unfortunately, few businesses in the world can do this and stay afloat, employees want to be paid, bills have to be paid.

as for "thin air", I would not call development costs exactly free. If you feel this way do you or have you ever bought music? bought a book?

According to this site, wich reads out the Lodestone (and mounts are visible to the public), the Chocobo Carriage was sold 27917 times already. At a 36 dollar price tag, that's a million dollar they have already made with this carriage alone. If that is not making money out of thin air...

https://www.lalachievements.com/en/rarity/mount/global/

But whatever, I love my carriage and it was the first item ever I bought on day one xD

[DrWho2010]

yeah and you know how fast a million bucks gets used up in dev time, server costs, maintenance, etc? pretty darn fast.

[JohnSpawnVFX]

According to this site, wich reads out the Lodestone (and mounts are visible to the public), the Chocobo Carriage was sold 27917 times already. At a 36 dollar price tag, that's a million dollar they have already made with this carriage alone. If that is not making money out of thin air...

https://www.lalachievements.com/en/rarity/mount/global/

But whatever, I love my carriage and it was the first item ever I bought on day one xD

Ah yes, because someone just snapped their fingers and the mount magically appeared out of thin air on the Mogstation...

[JamieRose]

According to this site, wich reads out the Lodestone (and mounts are visible to the public), the Chocobo Carriage was sold 27917 times already. At a 36 dollar price tag, that's a million dollar they have already made with this carriage alone. If that is not making money out of thin air...

https://www.lalachievements.com/en/rarity/mount/global/

But whatever, I love my carriage and it was the first item ever I bought on day one xD

Must be nice to have so much money to just throw away on ridiculously overpriced items.

[sauc]

it's making money out of thin air because there's no maintenance or production cost past the first time creation. They could sell it for 1$ and eventually make a profit. No one has to create a new chocobo mount everytime one sells it exists forever. Not to mention the model was already in game they just had to make sitting poses

[Tiraelina]

Just stop trying to compare actually worthless digital goods tied to a subscription of a single game to things like food or other physical goods. It doesn't work, at all. Pointlessly expensive bags still have a bill of materials and manufacturing costs every single item.

Most of the things on the store were already in the game in some form. The only difference from a F2P at this point is that event items are free the first time. The amount of apathy towards this, they could double the subscription and charge for dungeons and it would be accepted.

It's just a luxury, don't complain! -Subscribers to a game that in itself is a luxury.