Even the sale prices in the store are prohibitively expensive.

[Ranaku]

Well at some point you have to stop crying about stuff being expensive tho, right?

I mean a few years ago i also cried myself everynight into sleep that i can't just eat everyday overprized fisheggs and wash them down with champaign but yeah...at some point you have to face reality.

Also in which developed country is 20 dollars every 3 months something you can't save up for if you would like it? Maybe don't stuff yourself with 2 pizzas and just eat one a day then you can spend a bit more money on other things.

[kaynide]

No it's annoying because people lack emphaty. Since we agree that expensive is subjective, then we also acknowledged that to some people the discount price is still expensive right? But instead of going "it's not expensive for me, but I can see your point/sorry to hear it's expensive for you", some people here just straight up go "it's optional reeee!!" "just stop being poor lol".

And op has the point. It is once in a year discount, yet they don't even give us a 50% sale.

Companies making money isn't problematic, but at some point it's just blatantly a cash grab dickmove. And if you know how predatory SE is with their IP but still won't acknowledge it happens in ffxiv to some extent, then that's on you.

Compared to what other MMOs/games in general do, FFXIV is extremely fair/tame in their cash shop. It’s unfair to call it predatory.

Moreover OP has a history of being incredibly rude, so rude is what she gets back. You’re not wrong that we should default to being polite, but no one is under any obligation to remain polite when OP is/has always been consistently rude.

[Nethereal]

Kinda curious for those who have been here longer. Has Jamie always been the one to start off aggressively or have they been provoked?

Last two threads I've seen they've always been the aggressor but I'm kinda curious for clarities sake.

[Juun]

A discounted costume costs less money then a McDonalds Menu. So the choice is easy.

[Frizze]

So i read 8 pages, and no one has addressed the part of the OP that has been bothering me. Normally i try to ignore this users threads, as any response that doesnt agree with them is either ignored or tends to leads to name calling. It isnt productive, and i dont fancy myself part of the "stalker" set. And yet...

So today we get our once a year chance to get the ridiculously expensive costumes and mounts at a discount

This isnt the only sale of the year!!! The Rising Anniversary/"Adventurer Celebration Sale" is one of the bigger sales of the year(a lot of glams/mounts/etc but by no means all of them), but there is a different sale going on every month. When this sale ends in late september, theyll announce what items are part of their next sale. To cherry pick one example, the motorcycle has been on sale at least 3 times so far this year. I know, because ive almost bought it twice. Maybe ill bite this time, maybe i wont. If i dont, maybe theyll get me next time it goes on sale. Also, you can probly stop complaining that the sale isnt good enough. Every item ive ever looked at as part of any sale has been discounted 30%. I dont know why they decided that was the only sale rate, but it seems to be that way.

[Breakbeat]

A single PPV boxing or MMA event can cost around $75. That would be, obviously, on top of your cable or satellite TV subscription. Humanity has been OK with this concept for, I dunno, 40 years or so? I remember my folks getting PPV events in the early '80s when I was a little kid.

Further, cable or satellite TV aren't the only examples of subscriptions to things that offer optional perks. Other examples of this would be phone/tablet voice or data plans, item delivery services, video streaming services, and yes, gaming subscriptions. Every single one of these offers optional paid perks beyond what the basic subscription provides.

Some perks will be cheap ($5 for a video-game aesthetic item) and some will be expensive ($100 for a boxing match)... that's just the way we do things on the third rock.

[Kes13a]

So i read 8 pages, and no one has addressed the part of the OP that has been bothering me. Normally i try to ignore this users threads, as any response that doesnt agree with them is either ignored or tends to leads to name calling. It isnt productive, and i dont fancy myself part of the "stalker" set. And yet...



This isnt the only sale of the year!!! The Rising Anniversary/"Adventurer Celebration Sale" is one of the bigger sales of the year(a lot of glams/mounts/etc but by no means all of them), but there is a different sale going on every month. When this sale ends in late september, theyll announce what items are part of their next sale. To cherry pick one example, the motorcycle has been on sale at least 3 times so far this year. I know, because ive almost bought it twice. Maybe ill bite this time, maybe i wont. If i dont, maybe theyll get me next time it goes on sale. Also, you can probly stop complaining that the sale isnt good enough. Every item ive ever looked at as part of any sale has been discounted 30%. I dont know why they decided that was the only sale rate, but it seems to be that way.

very good point Frizze.. but thats the reality we all live in, I suspect theirs to be different because likely they are not interested in whatever is up for teh other sale events. Its something particular to this time of year that is on sale that they want but not by enough.

I am with you on the bike, well.. any mount rarely. I have plenty I dont use already, so rarely bite on those

[Jin-]

Don't buy cigarette pack or two and you can already afford the bike mount. It's that simple.
I don't like it but it is what it is, be glad that we still get so many different mounts and glamour options in the game. In other games you can only wish for that

[JamieRose]

No it's annoying because people lack emphaty. Since we agree that expensive is subjective, then we also acknowledged that to some people the discount price is still expensive right? But instead of going "it's not expensive for me, but I can see your point/sorry to hear it's expensive for you", some people here just straight up go "it's optional reeee!!" "just stop being poor lol".

And op has the point. It is once in a year discount, yet they don't even give us a 50% sale.

Companies making money isn't problematic, but at some point it's just blatantly a cash grab dickmove. And if you know how predatory SE is with their IP but still won't acknowledge it happens in ffxiv to some extent, then that's on you.

[JamieRose]

So i read 8 pages, and no one has addressed the part of the OP that has been bothering me. Normally i try to ignore this users threads, as any response that doesnt agree with them is either ignored or tends to leads to name calling. It isnt productive, and i dont fancy myself part of the "stalker" set. And yet...



This isnt the only sale of the year!!! The Rising Anniversary/"Adventurer Celebration Sale" is one of the bigger sales of the year(a lot of glams/mounts/etc but by no means all of them), but there is a different sale going on every month. When this sale ends in late september, theyll announce what items are part of their next sale. To cherry pick one example, the motorcycle has been on sale at least 3 times so far this year. I know, because ive almost bought it twice. Maybe ill bite this time, maybe i wont. If i dont, maybe theyll get me next time it goes on sale. Also, you can probly stop complaining that the sale isnt good enough. Every item ive ever looked at as part of any sale has been discounted 30%. I dont know why they decided that was the only sale rate, but it seems to be that way.

I have no interest in purchasing fantasias, level skips, story skips or last year's event items that I already have.

This is the only time when things I want to buy go on sale, but they are still outrageously expensive despite the sale.