Online Store is Getting Worse!

[Rayne6665]

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.

Oh god no. I hate loot boxes. I bought so many loot boxes on TERA just for the volcanic weapon skin . Pls no loot boxes in ff14. I hate it lol

[SkyEdge1]

It's optional and frankly some people just got the money to spend on it. So they have a built in demographic, its quite simply people with extra money burning a hole in their pocket thats who that outfit is for. Same as that wonderful jacket that crafters got from momm...ammeliance. I don't have it because crafting/gathering gives me hives so I am happy that they got that sexy jacket that would be PERFECT for a ton of glams I have, no I'm not salty you are.
Tldr: MOG items are for Mog spenders. It ain't great, it just is.

[Adamantini]

I saw on twitter, that in addition to removing any racial traits, and being 22 dollars, this happens here when you give /joy with a lalafell. It is true?

[drtasteyummy]

You people seem to highly misunderstand how much influence must go in by a group or person that nobody at SE flipped the switch yet.
You think that is overpriced? That it's trash quality? Good, be happy about, less people buy it.
You absolutely underestimate how much they could pull with the store from really good dances, actual fancy clothes like nothing that are ingame,
relic like weapons, new animations, loot boxes, gil, or faster flight in the store. SE is not a good company nor are they your friend, okay, they were happy to implement NFT and Crypto in
their games to rip you off. You're a finger snip away that the store becomes an actual problem and not 22 dollar for an outfit.

[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.

[SassyAssassin]

People wanted to have both male and female versions wearable by both genders.
You pay the price to get an extra pair of pants just slightly longer it seems

[HanWenqing]

I never bought anything on this stuff, it's really only good for bums.

Then it's normal that they raise the prices and disrespect you since you're going to pay no matter how they treat you...

The worst thing is that there are players who defend them for the simple reason that they are Japanese...

the German bummer, "a high-spirited, irresponsible person."

[Skivvy]

I saw on twitter, that in addition to removing any racial traits, and being 22 dollars, this happens here when you give /joy with a lalafell. It is true?

It is. lol

[Tsiron]

People wanted to have both male and female versions wearable by both genders.
You pay the price to get an extra pair of pants just slightly longer it seems

I mean, that's a perfectly fine thing to want though. It's the implementation, at least as far as online store stuff goes, that leaves something to be desired..

[Adamantini]

It is. lol

WTF? This company is getting worse and worse