Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
WoW gives you incentives to keep subscribing, like mounts for 6-month subscription. FFXIV has nothing like that. They even stopped veteran rewards because they didn't want people to have to subscribe for a long time in order to receive some rewards. It's a very direct and clear offer: subscription fee for server access, while content access is determined by what expansions you own. Everyone is responsible for their own money. It's not your job to be concerned about "saving" people from their own spending choice..
Having the mere possibility to participate in the entire category of content known as housing is an incentive to keep people subbed at least 1 month out of 2 regardless of how interested they are in the game at the moment.
I'd much rather have cosmetics than this.

And I never tried to save people from their spending choices, I'm merely pointing out that buying without giving much thought into what we're buying is very common and it's especially true when it comes to subscriptions.

Just because I'm paying doesn't mean I should not criticize the monetization system of the game, and that's exactly what I'm doing, because it's without the shadow of a doubt the greediest I have personally partaken in.

With the continuous flow of content kept in mind, if I'm paying a sub, I don't want cash shop items I have no way of earning through gameplay.
If there's a cash shop with items I can't earn through gameplay, I don't want a mandatory subscription.
For the content we're getting, I think it should be either one or the other, but as the system is right now, I'll feel like I'll truly be getting my money worth of content once they'll quit cutting content out of the game.