Online Store is Getting Worse!

[HanWenqing]

It is. lol

some of the vertices are attached to the wrong finger, hence the deformation...

I could easily fix the problem.

[Adamantini]

some of the vertices are attached to the wrong finger, hence the deformation...

I could easily fix the problem.

caution. The last one who tried to fix something in this game received punishment, and SE was proud to say openly that it punished the player XD

[PyurBlue]

The median hourly wage of the province I live in is the third lowest in the country - and it's exactly $22.00/hr. The lowest is $21.63.

Even if it's only an hour's work, is it really worth that much? I tend to think of it like this, the base game comes with outfits. Many outfits in fact. How much of the original price of the game covered those? If the game sells for $100, let's say 25% went to graphics, 25% went to story, 25% went to marketing, and 25% went to 3D assets (I'm making this up, it's just for example). Outfits and such would fall under assets, so the 100 (?) outfit items that come with the base game would at most amount to $25 in value (25% of 100). If that is the case, how can single outfits sold by themselves cost anywhere near that?

The logic I used to break down the costs above would imply outfits should cost $0.5 ($25 for assets divided by 100 assets = $0.25 per asset and then I multiplied by 2 to be generous) at the absolute most. $20 might not be a lot in the grand scheme of things, but it looks absolutely overpriced when you take a close look. Unfortunately this is how typical game pricing and microtransactions work. They use prices that may not amount to large amounts of money in a single transaction while hoping you don't realize that there is an unbelievably enormous mark up behind the price that adds up very quickly overtime.

TLDR, it's odd when a single asset costs 1/3 to 1/2 the price of a full game, even if that cost is only an hour's wages.

[PharisHanasaki]

TLDR, it's odd when a single asset costs 1/3 to 1/2 the price of a full game, even if that cost is only an hour's wages.

This. When you get a mount that has 0 custom animations, at over the price of a full expansion ($42) it's kinda ridiculous.

FF16 must be draining SQEX's pockets.

[JamieRose]

the emotes are like 2-5$ (usd) each.
they do run sales fairly often. the last one lasted multiple weeks. but also you could just not buy stuff?

General sales on anything that isn't a story/level skip, fantasia or previous event items only happens once a year during The Rising. Even given that, the discount on their once a year sale is only 33% which leaves things still far too expensive.

Suggesting that people "not buy stuff" is unhelpful at best.

[Voltyblast]

I'm honestly wondering how long until the playerbase will realize that maybe there is something wrong with the shop, in a p2p game.

Or maybe it will never happen and it'll only get worse. Yeah I'm almost sure that's how is gonna go.

[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!

[SassyAssassin]

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..

Yeah thats not the problem, I just tried to show how ridiculous the price increase is to receive something of such little change.

[Glenfiddich]

Why would anyone buy that ugly Outfit anyway?
Let alone for this price tag.

[SassyAssassin]

I'm honestly wondering how long until the playerbase will realize that maybe there is something wrong with the shop, in a p2p game.

Or maybe it will never happen and it'll only get worse. Yeah I'm almost sure that's how is gonna go.

Took me a while to realise as well if Im being honest.
I played eso before and Id justify the store glams and prices as in ah well its a non sub game, sub games can keep the prices low and you get way more benefits because you pay a sub…..uh……..