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

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Mostly because funds from the mogstation gets cycled back into the game. That is what has paid for for the newer data centers for other parts of the world if I'm not mistaken. And of course WoW has more mounts in it.. it's been operating for almost 20 years. >.>

As to the RMT comment.

October 21st 2021 - 5,700+ accounts terminated - https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...5483ba7a009e67
October 14th 2021 - 6,000+ accounts terminated - https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...b96e9db2cd2a71
October 7th 2021 - 4,300+ accounts terminated - https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...966ccefa09b819
July 29th 2021 - 10,000+ accounts terminated - https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...17da61235fd9e1

Source for the above - https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...ews/category/1

They do plenty to deal with RMT. Typically they're tracing where Gil goes before they act so that they're hitting the buyer, the advertisers, the traders, and the bots that are sourcing the Gil.

Unless you're referring to RMT pertaining to paid carries, then those are being worked on to be addressed. In a recent interview Yoshi-P stated the ToS needs updating so it can properly be addressed.



I mean if you want to look at it that way sure, but you're just getting the Gil you would have gotten from the quests up until that point.

There's alot of unique mounts in wow is what I mean. People act like it's 500 horses and wolves with different colors and all the cool stuff is on the store. Mimiron's head isn't on the store, neither is the engineer motorcycle and helicopter or the tree that changes color depending on what irl season it is or the love rocket or the 5 seater hivemind... You could make a big list and xiv is not innocent at making cheap mount recolors. Both wow and xiv have a ton of cheap reskins and keep the cool stuff in stores with a sprinkle of nice mounts from in game rewards every now and then.

Like you said those aren't rmt bans. Those are for things like the level 1 bots spamming their shady website in town. They could ban a million and it doesn't matter if there's no preventive measures whatsoever and even then that just slows them down a bit. A bot will just make a new account and go park itself back in limsa after the 2 min intro. They'll never be able to ban rmt cause they'll just advertise themselves in pf with something like $UCOB$ followed by a discord without every actually using the word sale. So unless they want to pay people to be undercover gms 24 hours a day 7 days a week to catch them it's here to stay.

Yoshi said it goes back into the game, but he also said houses will never auto-demo. Doesn't matter if he really is telling the truth as things change. I also find it hard to believe they'd have sacrificed the entire revenue of EU if there was no mogstation. wow had na eu and asia servers before in game stores were a thing. If mogstation truly is running the game then they must be siphoning the hell out of subs and game sales for other projects.

I just find it funny when I watch both games do the exact same thing and one gets continuously bashed for it while the other doesn't. If blizzard made holiday mounts only to take them away and sell them on the store 1 year later we all know you'd never hear the end of it and asmon,bellular,preach and all that would make a million videos about how trash blizzard is.