Another 500$ emotes, just what we needed

[Toutatis]

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.

So? The most expensive one was 10x less than that statuette but that’s irrelevant.

2 of those were birthday gifts. The Omega suit was a gift too. 1 mount is for group activities and one reminds me of my dad and allows me to carry a friend. It’s my choice and I can afford it. It’s essentially pocket money for me. I don’t blame SE for my choices. I wouldn’t buy a $400 emote nor a $400 mount although I could afford it too. I think it stupid to buy a commercial statuette that has no artistic value for an emote that has little to no use but if someone wants it, their choice. If someone buys it and it puts a hole in their budget, then they need to learn to be responsible with their money. Not SE’s fault if someone feels the need to buy everything. We’re not talking about a basic food item.

[maximesan514]

Nobody forces you to buy it.

For the record, I would never in my life buy an emote thats disguise as a cheap figure. Square enix just milk its community over and over and over, the second it was announced it was sold out. I just think its sad that square enix milk the wage slave this much. Feels like they put more work into cheap product than the game itself. Its just plain sad but keep defending multi billions company.

[Raven2014]

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.

Which is a very flawed principle because it doesn't make sense. And this applies to everything, not just a subbed-mmo. People use the same argument everywhere, even for single players games.

I am someone who had never bought a single cosmetic item from the mogstation, but I have never any problem its existence. The flaw with your principal is you forget a simple thing: if the store doesn't exist as a revenue stream, those items won't exist to begin with. You probably think the alternative to this would be "everyone get it for free", but that's just fantasy. Realistically the alternative would be "well nobody gonna get it 'cause it won't be created in the first place". It would be another thing if SE release a new raid, but give no gears and say well you have to pay $5 to unlock it ... then your principle can apply.

[maximesan514]

Think about it, whole expansion, I have completed all of the tribe quest ( pain ) and what I got today was an emote that makes my character do this cringe silly dance.. meanwhile the dude that buy this 500$ " figure " gets this badass over the top emote. Why is it that all the good stuff are paywalled in a game where I have spent over 1000's only on subscriptions fee??? They laughin at us and everybody worship them...

[Ashennae]

Disappointing, but not surprising. I wish there was a way to unlock the paid content in game. Even if it was barred behind ridiculous grinds. (Like running The Mothercrystal EX and Zodiark EX 10,000 times in a row each or something)

[Avoidy]

if the store doesn't exist as a revenue stream, those items won't exist to begin with. You probably think the alternative to this would be "everyone get it for free", but that's just fantasy. Realistically the alternative would be "well nobody gonna get it 'cause it won't be created in the first place". It would be another thing if SE release a new raid, but give no gears and say well you have to pay $5 to unlock it ... then your principle can apply.

That would certainly apply in a game that gets its revenue solely from the cash shop, but Final Fantasy XIV gets its revenue from people buying the base game, from people buying the expansions, and from every player dropping 15 dollars every month to continue to play it even when there's nothing new being added. I think it's reasonable to assume that in a monetization system like this, you don't need 400 dollar emotes, 40 dollar mounts, and 25 dollar outfits in order to produce more 400 dollar emotes, 40 dollar mounts, and 25 dollar outfits. There's already revenue coming in from 3 other sources, after all.

[Turtledeluxe]

You have to have something to do after that 30 min patch content.

[Theodric]

I think it's great. I have no interest in buying it myself though I hope that Square Enix continues to make a lot of FFXIV merchandise so they can funnel the cash into other projects. If that's what it takes to get a remake or remaster of Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story and Parasite Eve? Then so be it.

[Battler-Ushiromiya]

I hope more threads about this gets made. Just drown the front page in complaints about this crap.

I'm buying one because of this comment

[Themarvin]

Collectables is another side story... alot of things in the world is something people collect on either because limited editions or just gotten rare over time.

It is pointless to whine over that if you can acquire a collectable that you then further on get a game bonus out of it, that wont outlast the item, as the game would go down in favor of a new MMO before the actual item you paid will perish and decay.


It seem a bit like an invalid thread in some ways, and also I can live without that item.

I did buy the cookbook though and using it as well.