Quote Originally Posted by Toutatis View Post
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.