New Chinese Magician Emote...

[TheMightyMollusk]

Not even gonna wait for it to hit the cash shop to bring back every cash shop thread ever, huh?

[Stormpeaks]

Not even gonna wait for it to hit the cash shop to bring back every cash shop thread ever, huh?

As much as I disagree with Aveyond on a lot of things, there are 2 things that are/could be an issue in this

Issue 1 : Why have such a distanced released in between the regions ? What is the point exactly ? And why are we just accepting it as if its normal ? And no "it's always been like this" is not a response, things could improve, in particular for region exclusives (like the dress and another item that was JP exclusive, or even the pizza emote for NA)

Issue 2 : If it's free for one region (which I am not sure it is) but then goes straight to the cash shop for another region, that is also another issue.

I dont know if they get it for free, or if they also have to pay for it or get a chance in the game or however it works, but in any case the first issue is already a big problem, there is just no reason.

[Aword3213]

As much as I disagree with Aveyond on a lot of things, there are 2 things that are/could be an issue in this

Issue 1 : Why have such a distanced released in between the regions ? What is the point exactly ? And why are we just accepting it as if its normal ? And no "it's always been like this" is not a response, things could improve, in particular for region exclusives (like the dress and another item that was JP exclusive, or even the pizza emote for NA)

Issue 2 : If it's free for one region (which I am not sure it is) but then goes straight to the cash shop for another region, that is also another issue.

I dont know if they get it for free, or if they also have to pay for it or get a chance in the game or however it works, but in any case the first issue is already a big problem, there is just no reason.

Regarding China, it's a very different story.

Chinese publisher (Shenqu games) made different monetization for XIV. They also bought XIV copyright for themselves. It's how chinese policy works

You don't even see chinese Datacenter on official website nor in game. They have their own launcher. So I don't consider China a region in same way as NA/EU/JP.

I think SE may even need approval frorm Shengqu for it to be added to the game.

[Stormpeaks]

Regarding China, it's a very different story.

Chinese publisher (Shenqu games) made different monetization for XIV. They also bought XIV copyright for themselves. It's how chinese policy works

You don't even see chinese Datacenter on official website nor in game. They have their own launcher. So I don't consider China a region in same way as NA/EU/JP.

I think SE may even need approval frorm Shengqu for it to be added to the game.

Ok that makes sense actually, thank you for explaining

[4clubbedace]

Regarding China, it's a very different story.

Chinese publisher (Shenqu games) made different monetization for XIV. They also bought XIV copyright for themselves. It's how chinese policy works

You don't even see chinese Datacenter on official website nor in game. They have their own launcher. So I don't consider China a region in same way as NA/EU/JP.

I think SE may even need approval frorm Shengqu for it to be added to the game.

KR is also a seperate launcher for the most part. You need KR SSN to play most online games to begin with. Because of this a lot of KR ver of mmos are "free"

[Hurlstone]

It would be great if we did get more of these emotes and store items as in-game rewards. Unfortunately, SE is still a company who wants profits over anything so if they can get away with it, they will.

*Shakes fist at capitalism*

[Canadane]

It would be great if we did get more of these emotes and store items as in-game rewards. Unfortunately, SE is still a company who wants profits over anything so if they can get away with it, they will.

*Shakes fist at capitalism*

So far SE likely hasn't gotten any profits off this emote.

[rainichan]

KR is also a seperate launcher for the most part. You need KR SSN to play most online games to begin with. Because of this a lot of KR ver of mmos are "free"

Yep. IIRC instead of a sub fee, you pay per minute; so if you play for 2 hours, you're paying for a 120 minutes, etc. Though it looks like right now they have a pass plan for 90 days for ~$36 USD (₩47500 in KR₩) to play unlimited on your account, so subscriptions may have started in a way for the KR client; unsure if this is across the board or not - I do recall some of their restrictions on only playing games like this in PC bangs were being rolled back some, so perhaps this is the start of that?

CN seems to work like their mobile games, and you can "recharge" your monthly card to play. Even still, their monetization is vastly different than ours in how to play + they're behind some patches, so they usually get a lot of cosmetics for their troubles... and because that's what they spend on. Still wish the global version would get the all classes crafting/gathering glamours from both CN/KR brought over :/

For reference, the KR shop is here and the CN shop is here.

All of the things you see are usually straight into their cash shops, and whatever we get brought over also goes into our cash shop to keep it fair. This has been discussed idk how many times from nearly every CN/KR cash shop item that has come over, so this is still nothing new. It'll be a $7 emote or whatever, like it normally is, and yes, we keep in line with their prices, for the most part, based on whatever inflation and exchange rate is at the time. It looks like the magician emote is already there for 4800 coupons - assuming 4800 coupons is like crysta (and I'm fairly certain it is) and it works like crysta with a 1:1 ratio (1 crysta = $1) it's ~48.00 CN¥ which comes out to about ~$7 USD.