Another 500$ emotes, just what we needed

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

In a world full of gamers with common sense, sure. However, this is the XIV community we're talking about here. Nothing we do on an individual level matters when the community's full of people who will buy anything SE churns out no matter how stupid, worthless, and overpriced it is.



That's the best part. They sold out so fast (within minutes), that OP couldn't buy it even if he wanted to. People are scalping the crap out of these codes in a few months. Please look forward to it!

I hope more threads about this gets made. Just drown the front page in complaints about this crap. It's well earned. I wish I could run a live service game on a subscription model, put out 3 meaningful updates a year, and then nickel and dime people in a cash shop that would make f2p korean mmos blush. Can you imagine? It's wild that XIV doesn't get more funding. It's basically a cash cow.

Implying it's just the xiv community that does this is disingenuous. You can say that about anything. Sports fans buying tickets at exorbitant prices, people buying shoes at crazy prices.

Welcome to free market capitalism.

[Avoidy]

Implying it's just the xiv community that does this is disingenuous. You can say that about anything. Sports fans buying tickets at exorbitant prices, people buying shoes at crazy prices.

Welcome to free market capitalism.

Yeah this is true in a lot of areas in life. But we're in the XIV forums, talking about XIV's buying habits, so I'm going to be talking about XIV today.
It's funny, because I can 100% be hella disingenuous when I want to be, but this isn't an area where I was trying to go that route. I'm legit just saying, in other areas of consumer spending, being a conscientious consumer can sometimes work. But in certain industries (gaming in general, let's be real) it's just a lost cause. XIV is one of them.

On the other hand, this is a tempting opportunity for me to use the "facepalm" emote that I just happen to have on one of my hotbars.

Same tbh. I actually got a look at that emote the other day and it's extra obnoxious. Legit reminds me of the over the top gaudy stuff I'd see in the old Korean MMOs I used to play. "Look at me!! I spent a stupid amount of moneeeey!!!" dumb as hell tbh.