Another 500$ emotes, just what we needed

[IDontPetLalas]

Honestly I just forget about the emotes most of the time. I don't have them on hotbars and I don't really use the emote menu that often.

Plus, randomly using them is obnoxious.

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.

[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.

[Larirawiel]

Thanks square enix for releasing another unobtainable 500$ emote. We appreciate you milking your playerbase to the bone, as usual !!!!!!

Nobody forces you to buy it.



Cheers

[Toutatis]

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.

They could sell it for $1k for all I care. It’s a non essential and even useless item that doesn’t affect gameplay and that can’t be resold once the code is used.

If people are stupid enough to buy it that’s on them. If it doesn’t affect their budget, they are indulging as they would with other things. Their choice. If someone can’t afford it but still buys it, they need to learn to manage their money and show self restraint. This is no different to some show tickets, designer stuff made with cheap materials and logos slapped over them (there’s a lot of that today…several have developed a mass market and masses buy overpriced items just for the name and no longer for quality or make), etc.

People just need to learn that they can’t have everything in life and live with it.

[Kes13a]

I cannot imagine anything I would pay any game company $500 for.. period.

its clearly obvious that most of us were not who that merchandise was aimed at for a target demographic.

its an emote, there is not any purchased emote needed anywhere in the game. so if someone wants to spend their money on it, its their call. its not something I ever actually expect to see much of in game lol

[Avoidy]

They could sell it for $1k for all I care. It’s a non essential and even useless item that doesn’t affect gameplay and that can’t resell once the code is used.

If people are stupid enough to buy it that’s on them. If it doesn’t affect their budget, they are indulging as they would with other things. Their choice. If someone can’t afford it but still buys it, they need to learn to manage their money and show self restraint. This is no different to some show tickets, designer stuff made with cheap materials and logos slapped over them (there’s a lot of that today…several have developed a mass market and masses buy overpriced items just for the name and no longer for quality), etc.

People just need to learn that they can’t have everything in life and live with it.

It's just the principle of the matter. A game that's buy to play + subscription shouldn't have any content locked behind a paywall imo, especially not one so steep. But if I'm being real, it's not surprising. This is where we are now. Because for years and years and years, long before XIV was even a concept, people saw this writing on the wall and bought into it anyway.
Idk why I even reply to these threads, like none of it matters anyway. It's just depressing that this is where we are now. You can basically triple dip on your monetization setup and then have a giga-whale option and it still sells out in minutes. I hate the modern gaming industry.

[BokoToloko]

Why would anyone buy a statue for the emote alone? And why should we care about the whale's spending habits, when it's clear they won't really stop buying overpriced merchandise anyways, regardless of the public view on such market practice?

[AmorfaVex]

As PT Barnum once said, "There's a sucker born every minute."

[Krojack]

maybe if this community had a little bit of self control they wouldnt sell an emote for that price ?

I would buy the emotes off the mog station for $10 but I just can't afford these statues let alone with shipping too. It's getting rather depressing.

Also maybe if SE made a LOT MORE of them then the price wouldn't be as high. SE would rather have a very limited amount made which drives up cost.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

They could sell it for $1k for all I care. It’s a non essential and even useless item that doesn’t affect gameplay and that can’t be resold once the code is used.

If people are stupid enough to buy it that’s on them. If it doesn’t affect their budget, they are indulging as they would with other things. Their choice. If someone can’t afford it but still buys it, they need to learn to manage their money and show self restraint. This is no different to some show tickets, designer stuff made with cheap materials and logos slapped over them (there’s a lot of that today…several have developed a mass market and masses buy overpriced items just for the name and no longer for quality or make), etc.

People just need to learn that they can’t have everything in life and live with it.

You have at least 4 mounts from the cash shop.

I'm not sure you have room to talk lol. Some of those mounts were quite expensive.