SQEX is Very Diligent when It Comes to Mogstation Lately.

[SannaR]

If this was the case, then why are there still items released on the Korean online store years ago that never came over? Or the fact that most of the items released on China/Korea stores has a complete disregard for meshing properly with items released for the global servers?

Like that one dress everyone is still clamoring for yet we haven't gotten it since it was released for the Korean Store. You know the one that when you sit down in it the skirt bends up at a 90 degree angle. Which if Dionysis was correct about this we'd already had it for at least six years now. There's a few other things we still don't have but that dress just stays in people's minds.

[MikkoAkure]

Good question to ask Yoshi-P on the upcoming PAX East Q&A.

Go ahead and ask it then.

Most people are already satisfied with the idea that many Mogstation items are most likely produced by a third-party due to the fact they’re released on the China/Korea stores first, are usually themed after Korean and Chinese traditional clothing, and obviously have a completely different QA process than everything else in the Mogstation.

The items that are released on global Mogstation first have different textures and look and feel like they were produced by different modelers than the China/Korea first clothing. The global-first items also don’t clip as much with existing base-game gear or clip in general while the reason why we don’t have 2 Korean outfits is probably because of the horrendous clipping one of them has that would never have passed SE QA.

[Avoidy]

I used to bring this up a lot, especially during content droughts where we'd have nothing to do in game and then out of nowhere they'd try to sell us some nearly 30 dollar outfit. I'd say "this could have been an in game event to tide people over between updates" and in return I'd hear anything from "bE gRaTefUL" to "u dOnT hAve tO bUy iT" to "r u pOoR???" "at LeAst We'Re nOt wOw!"

Honestly when the game's dead as hell content wise, SQEX should be grateful people stay subbed at all and give those people in game events to do. And I'm not talking about Square's definition of an "Event" where it's like a 10 minute text adventure ending in an emote they'll sell for 3 dollars in a year. I'm talking about things designed to get people online and playing the game with each other. The moogle tomestone events are a good start, but it seems like that's their only event in this style and then they use them ultra sparingly like they're afraid of giving people a good thing.

The "scary lady" meme is hilarious btw. I'm surprised to learn that the person overseeing quality control (allegedly) in the cash shop is a woman at all and not some 55 year old Japanese salaryman, because half the outfits we get look like they're what some out of touch old man thinks is fashionable. Meanwhile, the actual in game items aren't much better. Look at the Euphrosyne glams. I'm sure I'll get someone replying to this post now who loves that stuff, but there is -nobody- I know in game who is farming that place for glamour, and I literally organize runs multiple times a week. After tuesday it's like pulling teeth to get people to join at all. And the new dungeon is just recycled shit from the heavensward alliance raids which I'm sure someone will argue makes sense because "it's da void expansion!" but come on man. Four months. Four months for this. Nah man.

Honestly seeing the cash shop updated monthly while we can't even get them to recycle a moogle tomestone event at the same rate so people stay active, is disheartening as hell. Just solidifies my opinion that XIV is a cash cow used to fund shitty AAA SQEX games that'll either flop or be Playstation exclusives for so long that most of us won't even be able to play it on release. Hey, that'd be cool, wouldn't it? If XIV subscribers got discounts on SQEX games? We're basically funding them, after all.

[hobostew]

Sure but the thing I don't mind is how good/decent glams are also available in game.

This isn't WoW where the dogshit stuff goes in the game and the HQ stuff on cash shop.

I know it's personal taste but the stuff on the WoW cash shop is pretty trash. The best thing they have is that new phoenix themed outfit but it only comes in one color and my character's butt clips through it lol. The in-game armor/cosmetics are waaaaay better IMO.

[ReynTime]

Literally all of the Mogstation items that come out in China several months before they come out in the worldwide version of the game?
All of the mounts and glam sets that very clearly don't fit in with the rest of the stuff we get?

The Far Northern Attire, Street Attire, Eastern Lord/Lady Attire, Collegiate Attire, Bergsteiger/Dirndl Attire, Peacock Attire, Eastern Journey, Eastern Maiden, Eastern Officer, Mun'gaek, Socialite, Schoolboy, Schoolgirl, Faerie Tale and Nezha Lord/Lady Attire.
Mechanical Lotus, Peacock, Magicked Carpet, Nezha Chariot.
Maybe Ceruleum Balloons? Not sure on that one.

That explains a lot.

Eyuck.

[Jojoya]

Do you have a source for this?

These items come out as Chinese/Korean exclusives, and for years, they were 100% exclusive, and only started being added to our Mogstation by popular demand.

Even if they're still made in-house for some reason, that would suggest they have a contract with Shanda Games to produce exclusive content for them. Which would mean these items still aren't taking away from resources elsewhere, because CBU3 are contractually obliged to produce them anyway.

This is closer to accurate.

The KR/CN publishers monetize their version of the game primarily through the cash shop and ask SE to create additional items for them to sell. SE then creates the items under their contract.

I think people misinterpret a lot of stuff during the Panel due to it's in Japanese. I.e. the scary lady that runs Mogstation, obviously someone has to run the Mogstation. That person also obviously manage/control the Mogstation, but she's not "above" Yoshi-P, nobody is above Yoshi-P, his title is Director and Producer lmao.

There are a lot of people in SE above Yoshi-P. In this case, it's more accurate to say she does not report to Yoshi-P nor does he report to her. They have their separate duties.

She has control over Mogstation as a retail platform. YoshiP can request certain things are or are not done but ultimately the decision is hers.

If this was the case, then why are there still items released on the Korean online store years ago that never came over? Or the fact that most of the items released on China/Korea stores has a complete disregard for meshing properly with items released for the global servers?

Because at that time, they were contracted as KR exclusives, sold as KR exclusives, and so have to remain KR exclusives.

Player outcry from JP/NA/EU about not having access to those items seems to have led to the contract for later items to be changed so that such items are released in KR first then can be released to other markets 6 months later. KR players get exclusive use for a short period of time then stop caring as a new exclusive gets released.

Not really any different from how FFXVI will be a PS5 exclusive for several months before the PC edition gets released. Sony gets to brag that they've got the game on their platform before others get to play.

[SassyAssassin]

Yeah I don’t like the whole thing about costumes being made for China first. You have customers from all over the world SE.
Im also not happy about all the exclusives they get.

[Raoabolic]

Is this what they meant by polish when the devs cut dungeons down to 1 per patch? I didn't forget Devs, I still remember that fun line you fed to us.

[Hoodcat]

im tired of these one pc glams :| shits lazy

[Raoabolic]

im tired of these one pc glams :| shits lazy

It may be lazy but if a small indie company can get a ton of people to pay 22 dollars a piece for it then lazy or not, said company would be dumb not to go after that free cash. It's the old sayin', don't hate the game, hate the playerbase. I think that's how it went at least, lmao.