Will no longer purchase optional items in response to statue emote

[Cinnamonpop]

i find it hard to empathise with 400 dollar impulse spending while im sitting here on the breadline tbh

I understand, and I apologize if I have upset you with my decision. I definitely understand what it's like to be in your position, as I am normally in it as well. I only wanted to spend this money as my family's request with holiday money is that I spend it on myself. I figured buying the emote could count well enough while also being able to potentially do something nice for a friend if any of them had the room for the figure and could maybe help pay for shipping. Once again I was not asking for empathy though, but rather just trying to speak out and say no matter how you may feel about a company, such as myself, if you allow them to take away a little without speaking up, they will do it again. The only way to stop them is to say loudly that you won't tolerate it, and to speak with your wallet.

And I apologize if the way I phrase things is funny, I'm not very adept at articulating myself I believe.

[Cinnamonpop]

how does a 400$ emote enhance this experience?

I apologize, but I'm gonna take this chance to make a joke, please don't take it serious.

But one of my alts is Elidibus, and I think it'd be very funny to make him do the Hydaelyn kick.

Jokes aside, I am once again more upset at the seemingly useless change. What reason is there to do this when every other statue was not like this? I am not upset the fact that it's a single-character, but more of the fact that it's a clear downgrade from what Square Enix has released before. If we do not speak out against it, this will be the new trend, and there's no reason for this to happen outside of some kind of gain for them at the loss to their customer.

[Eastwall]

Honestly... You shouldn't buy these if your financial situation is tough. I have no financial pressure at all, but l only buy it if l really liked it. I even play an alt cat girl so l don't have to buy fantasia.

[Halivel]

I'm generally not one to complain about Optional Items, but whatever is going on with their "Meister Quality" series of figurines since Omega fiasco is just... atrocious. Even from a figurine collector perspective (or, rather, "especially so" instead of "even").

- Hydaelyn, no offense, looks like a $25 bootleg from Aliexpress from year 2005. The only reason Zodiark isn't as horrible is most likely because he doesn't have a human face and body, so the flaws are less noticeable.
- The price is almost double compared to previous figurines.
- It's made out of pretty cheap materials that have issues with paint starting to flake off at some point.
- Emote is single-character instead of account-wide it used to be.

For comparison I have a $300 figurine pre-ordered that will be handmade, manually painted, has replaceable parts, made out of better materials and the level of detail on it is insane.

There's literally no excuse for SE to charge $360 (without taxes too, I take it?) for a frankly underwelming quality, and they still dare to call it "Meister". Meister how? Their own "Bring Arts" action figurines look better for a fraction of the price! They should seriously replace their sculptors for this line, it's just ridiculous at this point.

Figurines are obviously not an item produced for people who're struggling with their budget and it's a case of "it's a privelege, not a necessity", but even for those there're certain lines one shouldn't cross. If they want to call their series "Meister" (which implies "Premium", you know) and charge as much as some sculptors charge for an actual outstanding premium quality - they should provide the quality. They most certainly can afford that. So yeah, it's 100% a matter that is worth being called out even outside of OP's specific circumstances (glad that they approved your refund btw).

[Musashidon]

i dont understand this tbh.. like this game activley doesnt want u playing alts so who cares if ur main is the only 1 with it.

i will say i am for all items being account wide, it doesn't matter if i only play one character its about buying a digital item that should be account wide. while i am not going to riot and throw fits to get it to happen, i will say SE could get a lot more money out of me if they made everything account wide or even a second version of said item on mogstation that can be bought that is account wide.

[Mostly_Raxus]

a fool and their money soon shall part.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Yea that statue is definitely nowhere near worth that much... Most of the merchandise isn't really worth what they ask for it... All I'm seeing is a statue that'd sit on the table reminding you that you spent 400€ on it.

[Shougun]

Yea that statue is definitely nowhere near worth that much... Most of the merchandise isn't really worth what they ask for it... All I'm seeing is a statue that'd sit on the table reminding you that you spent 400€ on it.

Does a really good job then lol.

A good statue can cost a lot, while I've seen worse this ain't that.

I got one of those Geralt Ronin statues, so heavy you could turn it into a weapon, pretty good quality, much cheaper than this statue : / ..

[Avoidy]

The bleakest blackpill is yet to come, OP. It's when even after you stop buying their mogstation items, but you realize there's like... a mile long line of people who don't care and will buy no matter what. Hell, they'll even buy several of the same item for every alt. I'm glad you've decided to become a conscientious consumer, but the mmo genre... hell, gaming as a whole, is just screwed. Smart purchasing on an individual level won't change Square's business practices, but at least you won't be spending your money on crap so that's a plus.

Shout out to the figurines they design for these things. 300-400 dollars but when they arrive 6 months later they look like some crap your grandma would accidentally get you from the bootleg figurine store. It's the same as all the other collectible stuff, like the turntable that was way more expensive than just buying a turntable on amazon, and now the PC with the zodiark/hydaelyn logo on the case, but for the projected price you could just buy a prebuilt with better specs on amazon. Most people realize these are bad deals. But all it takes are a few suckers, and those suckers are why we keep having to see this crap. Glad you're no longer one of them, OP.

[Halivel]

All I'm seeing is a statue that'd sit on the table reminding you that you spent 400€ on it.

More like "wasted" ngl.

Thing is - there're plenty of statues that deserve that price tag. Some of them are so intricate that they have to be made by hand because machines simply cannot manage that level of detail - which by itself adds to the price, hense why they're so expensive.

This abomination here is not that. Anyone who's remotely interested in figurines honestly should feel insulted by being charged for this much in this instance.