Online Store is Getting Worse!

[Iyrnthota]

Or you know, actually won't be added into the game at all.

I'll absolutely believe that they'd make less of it if there were no cash shop, but I very much doubt they'd make none of it.

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

I'll absolutely believe that they'd make less of it if there were no cash shop, but I very much doubt they'd make none of it.

Extremely unlikely we'd get anything tbh, though technically not impossible. Between my own personal experience working in game development environments and snippets of what Yoshi-P has said about the mogstation team, I have no doubts they have a 'here's the bargain bin of scrapped ideas we won't ever have time for, go nuts' relationship.

Most ideas that get cut in game development don't come back later, they just stay dead. Especially for a development team that has such short development cycles (4 months for the amount of content they make is lightning fast pace, I've worked with companies that could barely get a single level of a game done in that timeframe). I would suspect without the mogstation team salvaging discarded ideas, maybe 1/20th of the stuff currently on the mogstation would exist at all.

Not to mention, every player benefits from the mogstation's existence in one way shape or form - lower sub costs. let's be realistic, with inflation over time and rising dev costs, if it weren't for the Mogstation supplying a huge extra source of income that can cover several month's worth of subs from non-mogstation buyers, the sub cost would have 100% gone up a few $ by now. Which may be fine for some people, but would not for many others. And no, 'it'd be willing to pay more if meant we'd get more stuff in game' wouldn't be a valid response either. It'd be a simple cost of business adjustment, it wouldn't suddenly give the developers more time in their intensely packed dev cycles to actually implement anything.

Hate it all you want, but the mogstation is a necessary evil. Do I personally like it? No. But its the most optimal decision both financially and statistically. People will be blissfully ignorant of the fact the mogstation people are almost assuredly the sole reason they aren't paying several extra $ per month, many scrapped ideas the dev team couldn't do will get to see life instead of being buried forever, and Square makes a lot of extra money. It's a win on all sides from a consumer - business perspective.

Now one could argue the prices of the mogstation are too high for what they offer, but that's a separate discussion, like how $22 for a single character outfit is ludicrous, it should either be closer to $10 or account wide.

[Reimmi]

I'll absolutely believe that they'd make less of it if there were no cash shop, but I very much doubt they'd make none of it.

I've heard most of the cash shop items are made for the chinese store not NA, we just get them later because there's no reason not to bring them over

Something to do with chinese players not paying a sub and being more into microtransactions