Emote Monetization needs to Stop.

[Krojack]

I would ok if it was $2-3 but $7 is just no. Maybe $7 if it was account wide but even then I wouldn't get it. This isn't an emote for fun, it's an emote fro greedy companies to profit off of.

You can buy entire games for $7.

[Krojack]

I would LOVE the sunder emote but you know, I can't get it because of what it's locked behind. I like collecting some figures too but wasn't to crazy about this one.

It's a real gut punch when they do sheet like this to a lot of people.

[Angeldust]

Look, it's Final Fantasy XIV published by Square Enix. This is a poor company that just lost 70% of its revenue last year and is essentially bankrupt. They can't afford to give you more right now. If you had a homeless person sleeping outside your house who was at death's door, would you give him money? Of course you would. So why wouldn't you help Square Enix? We live in rough times right now and we need to think about those who are less fortunate. If Square Enix goes bankrupt, hundreds of people will be unemployed. They might even become homeless. How would you feel if that happened to you? Try being more charitable to the less fortunate instead of grandstanding about $7.

are we suppose to care? There is a huge difference of invidual who falls into that postion due to things outside their controll being against them, and a company with multiple titles who is honestly making alot more money then anyone here will see in 10 life times combined, The company bankrupts out of their own stupid choices which is their own fault, big difference between some.



Booo hooo I'm big company that is going bankrupt because i make shitty choices and horrible designs, and havent made anything decent in years ... im going bankrupt boo hoo who gives a damn, its their own fault so I dont really care. They choice to go bankrupt big difference between that and avarage joes who end up there with no choice of their own.

funny thing is they put effort into mogstation yet for the event we getting is just pure recoloring lazy effort lol

[PercibelTheren]

You do realize pso2 ngs has a sub.... you need a sub to even use the store to sell items that cost real money locked behind a loot box with a chance ur ok with those emotes being 60 - 100 yet your here crying about an optional emote many ppl could careless about.... man ff14 player quality is crap.... XD i need to remember this is same forum that was crying dawn trail was too hard.

"Another game has worse predatory monetisation, therefore the predatory monetisation in this one doesn't exist." And the moment someone points out that your argument makes no sense, you turn to insults. Another one for the block list, then.

[Mawlzy]

To you it probably is, but it's getting to a point where new players are going to find having to dig into their wallets for some better quality emotes if they aren't already fine with what they have to express themselves. If they want it, they'll have to work for it as always - but more often than not, if they hate doing it they quit mid-way before they get to the reward.

Serious question.

Can you provide a scenario in which being able to fry an egg is integral to one's character being able to fully express themselves? Particularly given that for the entire history of the game, nobody has been able to?

To put it another way, I don't think new players are having their game experience curtailed because a digital egg costs seven bucks. What they may benefit from is the revenue produced by whales buying an overpriced breakfast staple.

[PercibelTheren]

Serious question.

Can you provide a scenario in which being able to fry an egg is integral to one's character being able to fully express themselves? Particularly given that for the entire history of the game, nobody has been able to?

To put it another way, I don't think new players are having their game experience curtailed because a digital egg costs seven bucks. What they may benefit from is the revenue produced by whales buying an overpriced breakfast staple.

The fact that the defenders of this focus on one specific emote and keep pointing out how silly it is is quite telling, to be honest. It's annoying how much effort they clearly put into Mog Station content and not much else. They could have made the animations in DT cutscenes better, for example. Instead, they're just NPCs doing basic emotes and the resources to go a stupid fried egg emote that goes on the Mog Station.

[Kuroka]

Yeah forget the eggs, what about the Heroic entry or whatever its called in english, or others like that? So many lazy Emotes instead of making the DT animations better, yet so many even 2.0 old emotes we still dont have...

[Mawlzy]

The fact that the defenders of this focus on one specific emote and keep pointing out how silly it is is quite telling, to be honest. It's annoying how much effort they clearly put into Mog Station content and not much else. They could have made the animations in DT cutscenes better, for example. Instead, they're just NPCs doing basic emotes and the resources to go a stupid fried egg emote that goes on the Mog Station.

I'm not defending anything. I just lack the business expertise to assess the revenue implications of resources applied to Mog Station products.

[Angeldust]

Serious question.

Can you provide a scenario in which being able to fry an egg is integral to one's character being able to fully express themselves? Particularly given that for the entire history of the game, nobody has been able to?

To put it another way, I don't think new players are having their game experience curtailed because a digital egg costs seven bucks. What they may benefit from is the revenue produced by whales buying an overpriced breakfast staple.

Lets see Mount of alexander raid boss: granted to just buying

Mount of shadowwolf from shadowbringers r aids: granted from just buying...

Multiple outfits that could realisticly be earned from multiple dungeons, questlines and connections in game


and multiple emotes inlucindg this one that could be rewards for crafters .... This does highly disencourage people to give a damn about in game both new and old, because why would i care when in game the rewards are meha to trash and most we get is a new glowy glowy in comparasion.



I think people like you know its screwed up many things emotes, some of the mounts and some of the outfits in mogstation do effect in game play through and the amount we should care about in game content goes down hill each time they add something to mogstation that SHOULD BE EARNABLE IN GAME. Idc about the school girl outfit or stupid things like that being on the mogstation, are things like princess dress thats fine but things like the emote or the scion outfits, the knight outfits from heavensward, gaia outfit etc these are things should be earned in game, same with this emote and many of the mounts on mogstation.


There is a level where its okay, like a stupid thing like a snickers bar or something lame with real world reletaionships to it is fine on mogstation, things that realistcly can be earned in game it does harm the playerbase because it makes us care less about the game, and content in the game why would i care to enter a raid on any level if they are just going to add a mount from it in mogstation in 2 months lol..



I mean what mogstation should be is just stupid things like keyblades, blitzballs maybe random weapon and outfit glamors from dragon quest and other connections to other se games, maybe throw in a final fantasy 7 weapon collection, I'm fine with mogstation existing and being used it being here isn't the proplem its how they are using it.

With these things that should be IN GAME EARNABLE, and not with things they could random collap with the mogstation such as hello kitty, kingdom hearts (with their assests non of disneys) like organization 13 weapons, maybe historical final fantasy outfits from past games, maybe random furinture from older ffs, and connections to other se titles thats all fine...

However mogstation has started to do it more and more throw in things that should be earnable in game to sell which does harm the playerbase and the amount of care we have. Sure we can pretend its just silly, and doesnt really matter and to a point thats right however we are way past that point

[PassinLay]

Serious question.

Can you provide a scenario in which being able to fry an egg is integral to one's character being able to fully express themselves? Particularly given that for the entire history of the game, nobody has been able to?

To put it another way, I don't think new players are having their game experience curtailed because a digital egg costs seven bucks. What they may benefit from is the revenue produced by whales buying an overpriced breakfast staple.

Perhaps if the in game glams from content and from buying in game didnt look absolutely terrible that would be fine, but basically 90% of in game gear (minus some of the level 1 stuff) looks absolutely atrocious, while glams that look decent or good are locked behind the mog station

Also emotes should come from the game, not from the mog station, some very rare ones could come from the mog station sure, but this isnt some very rare ones, it's a big majority of them if not almost all of them.

Stop defending the indefensible.

Wouldn't mind more cool emotes being available in-game, seeing as I collect them, but this:



I find it a little hard to care about, if you don't want to do most of the content you should expect to get fewer rewards no?

Ridiculous argument when there is nothing to get even if you do content since basically everything is on the mog station.