Online Store is Getting Worse!

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I love how you can use this exact same argument with loot crates. Never change gamers, lol.

No, loot crates are terrible, they prey on people and can drain vulnerable people's life savings. No one should be OK with loot crates.

[Carin-Eri]

No, loot crates are terrible, they prey on people and can drain vulnerable people's life savings. No one should be OK with loot crates.

Very much agree!

The MMO I played previous to FFXIV was very commited to a loot crate model. It was one (of many) reasons I quit that game. They put everything players really wanted in those damn boxes and you'd hear of players spending literally hundreds (and in some cases thousands) trying to win that grand prize and subsequently expressing buyer's remorse when the boxes dropped a stack of 'junk' they didn't really want or need.
And to make things worse the studio in question flat refused to divulge the odds (and still do), although players opening boxes on the game's test server did work out that the odds of winning the grand prize were something like 0.05%

Anyway, having experienced that sort of sleazy predatory cash-grab mentality I'd say that buying guaranteed items for (what I consider to be) a reasonable price isn't actually so bad!