Do You Think FF XIV Will Start Getting The Hate WoW Gets Because of The Cash Shop?

[Sotaris]

People are already upset with the FF14 store (Cruise Chaser for example).
The difference is wow do it in a worse way than Square Enix, plus the fact the game is being supported partially or fully from the revenues and not end up in CEO pocket like in Blizzard, I think makes people more forgiving.

But the day we'd get a FF token, hell will break loose.

[Sotaris]

token?

You never heard of wow token, yet you praise how blizzard runs their store? X on that one.

[Larirawiel]

token?

You can buy a WoW token for real money and sell it for ingame gold. This is legalized RMT. Such a thing does not exist in FF14. Everything you buy in the cash shop is not sellable for Gil ingame. But yes, the amount of things you can buy in the mogry station is big.

Cheers

[Ronduwil]

You can buy a WoW token for real money and sell it for ingame gold. This is legalized RMT. Such a thing does not exist in FF14. Everything you buy in the cash shop is not sellable for Gil ingame. But yes, the amount of things you can buy in the mogry station is big.

Cheers

[kaynide]

Sam Riegel, the hero we need.

[Kyrj]

You can buy a WoW token for real money and sell it for ingame gold. This is legalized RMT. Such a thing does not exist in FF14. Everything you buy in the cash shop is not sellable for Gil ingame. But yes, the amount of things you can buy in the mogry station is big.

Cheers

Ehhhhhh you can get gil through the cash shop. Just make an alt and buy the story skip. $25 for what 500k gil? Nothing spectacular but it's enough to do things like fill up on crafting crystals and what not.

[Larirawiel]

Ehhhhhh you can get gil through the cash shop. Just make an alt and buy the story skip. $25 for what 500k gil? Nothing spectacular but it's enough to do things like fill up on crafting crystals and what not.

That is interesting. Thank you very much for this information.

Cheers

[VictorTheed]

Cash Shops don't really bother me, as long as they don't lock the story behind the Cash Shop or make it to where Cash Shops is the only way to progress in game, then they can sell gil tokens, strong gear, cosmetics, whatever.

As long as I have the choice to play the game myself and get stuff in game then I'm ok, I don't have to use the Cash Shop unless I want to is how I like it and if Cash Shop exclusives remain as certain cosmetics or jump potions then I'm fine, just don't lock progression or story behind it.

[Jijifli]

Cash Shops don't really bother me, as long as they don't lock the story behind the Cash Shop or make it to where Cash Shops is the only way to progress in game, then they can sell gil tokens, strong gear, cosmetics, whatever

If you wanna argue cosmetics, go ahead (even if I think they should be in game, or at least... account wide...). But do not put actual impacting gear in there, ever. And for the love that is bots and markets, do not ever, ever put that token here. WoW RMT spam might have gone down with the token, but its actual botting issue horribly HORRIBLY spiked up with it. I remember when I had trouble finding bots on WoW, now they might Boomy congo lines across half a zone and it's ignored because it promotes token sales (since those bots can just buy the tokens with their gold, thereby not needing to use stolen credit cards to fund delaying their bans by a long ass time). And that's ignoring the issue it caused with run sales spiking (also promoting token sales) that plague the game's systems. If you think 10 listings of obvious rmt run sales is a problem, wait until it's 100, and actually doing it with token sales so it's not even against ToS, that'll certainly be noticeable.