A warning to FFXIV players

[AnotherPerson]

This game has been out for around a decade now, and the mogstation has not doomed the game's quality.

In fact, the mogstation is where the money goes back into the development for FFXIV while the sub fees go sustain the servers and pay off other parts of the company.
For the most part, nothing in the mog station is giving an ingame advantage other than the level boosts (and even then, they're pretty much there since it was intended to be used for alts; your actual skill level required for those duties doesn't improve). Cosmetics like outfits, emotes, dyes, fantasia, and mounts are all glamour for your character and isn't essential to your experience. It's only there to enrich your experience if you want them since you weren't part of FFXIV or missed the event when it was up.

Plus, the current mogstation is a good way to get cosmetics for people who joined in FFXIV late / decided to make another character to play with friends on that datacenter but want a previous item from an event they did on another character. I rather be able to buy the 'songbird' emote than wait for a rerun of an event (which could take a couple of years) that gives me the 'songbird' emote.

Case in point: FFXIV crossover with FFXV event. The regalia mount was available many years ago as a purchasable MGP event item - and people wanted that for ages when they heard about it. A four seater car that transforms when flying? Amazing. But the event hasn't been rerun for a long time, and people weren't sure if SE was ever going to rerun it and was a one time thing like the Garo event. Many people just wanted it in the mogstation for that reason so they can still obtain it. When they heard the event was getting rerun, everyone was estatic, but boy there were so many people who were willing to give out money for a car.