Quote Originally Posted by Iyrnthota View Post
I hadn't considered comparing it against expansion prices.
Where I am, to buy Endwalker on Steam currently it's 29.99, this glam set alone is 15.00.

It would cost me more to buy this glam set for two characters (which I would have to do, because it's Single Character only) than it would to buy the most recent expansion.
I think it's eye opening for sure. It's clear that the prices of these sets far exceed how much it takes to produce them. If SE really needed anywhere near $10 per sale to cover the cost of creating an outfit, how much of the budget was put toward the default ones in the $50ish game?

Willingly paying these prices doesn't make someone a bad person, but I think it should be fairly obvious why they create so many negative reactions. It's not just about affordability, but obviously milking profit to extreme degrees. I'd like to buy some mogstation outfits and I'm always willing to support developers for good work, but I can't justify paying $20 for $1 worth of effort despite being able to part with that $20 very easily. I don't think that it's inaccurate to say that it's beneficial for everyone if the prices of options items were more reflective of their cost of production, even if you can afford them as is. Given how massively inflated the prices are right now, even an 80% cut would almost certainly still leave SE with profit. I'm also sure that such a cut would not lead to a proportional drop in income as with lower prices they would likely increase sales.