New Mogstore "Supply kit" good will or desperation?

[Absurdity]

This is kind of nasty. Like treading as close as they can to freemium mobile/korean MMO territory.

Then again extra retainers is already into the freemium territory. Repeat "GiL iS UsElEsS iN ThIs GAmE" as much as you want, but the fact is players are allowed to pay up to an extra 19 dollars (including their crappy companion app) to have 8 additional chances to get extra gil, crafting material and rare items without farming anything yourself/just logging in to check a menu. How much you care for that advantage is irrelevant. It is an advantage nonetheless.

Even if you ignore the gil made from retainer ventures, that is up to 1400 more "bank" slots for items when the "basic" inventory space is extremely limited.

[Avoidy]

Can they do this with the matoya hat next?
Or, no, you know what? Better yet. Put this stuff in the game for people to actually earn.

edit: LOL'd hard reading this thread. Why is this the wakeup call for so many people? They've been selling level skips, story skips, retainer skips, extra retainers, character customization changes, old event items that they refuse to return in future events, exclusive emotes, exclusive mounts with obvious ties to in game raids, exclusive furniture, alllllll in the cash shop this entire time and you guys have been like "tHiS iS fInE" but now they let some newbs wear your earring that no one even notices (seriously, earrings are barely visible in this game) and you guys are losing your minds. Bit late to the party, but glad you guys could finally join us I guess. lmao

"good for new players" lmao, it's a literal scam. it feels tailor made to target a new person's ignorance about how the game works. This was explained better by macchi on a previous page but yeah this is literally some black desert online tier scumbag-scam stuff.

[BabyYoda]

IDK what is happening but lately FFXIV is losing so hard in every aspect, it is literally 9 bad 1 good wtf?

why is this happening?

[CVXIV]

It's seems like a decent bundle for new players, or people that missed out on some of the items like the pre-order earring
I'd consider it but all I would really get from it would be the fantasia and aetheryte tickets, which I have a decent stockpile of because I farm them via masked carnivale every week and I don't really fantasia all that often.

I do wonder if this will be a trend we'll see more of and if it'll be Azeyma's earring next

[Bonoki]

I have the feeling that this is just the beginning. What will be next? And the far better Question is, why should we preorder Expansions in the Future, if SE is throwing Pre Order Items for cheap into the Shop?

But for what reason should we pre order the next expansion, if the pre order Bonus Items gets sold in the Shop?

No that is to less to pre order an Expansion. If there is nothing special in it.

This actually has me a little upset.. not the bundle itself, but that earring is supposed to be representative, and special, for people who have supported the game, company, etc. since X expansion.. and they go and make it basically FREE with a fantasia.. on an ACCOUNT WIDE item.. making it exactly like owning the real thing.. Truly makes me question "What is the point in pre-ordering..." in the future, honestly.

I pre-ordered the expansion, and honestly, the pre-order bonuses don’t matter much to me. We’re not obligated to receive anything extra, and let’s face it, the bonuses have always been just cosmetic items—a mount, some glam gear, and an experience earring that most players outlevel quickly. All of it is loot that is equal and equivalent to stuff we can already purchase from the Mog Station. I’m excited for the expansion because I plan to dive into the new content, not because I need a little extra incentive.

Those earrings? They’re over three years old at this point. I’ve had plenty of time to enjoy them, and I’m perfectly fine with others getting a shot at them. What really matters to me is early access; that’s the real draw. It means more than any glamour item ever could. I’m ready to jump in and experience everything the expansion has to offer.

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

But for what reason should we pre order the next expansion, if the pre order Bonus Items gets sold in the Shop?

You get to use the pre-order items when they're actually relevantly useful. Or in the case of mount/minion/earrings as a glamour, you just get to use them early, literal years before anyone else could use them. Moreover, the pre-order lets you play the expansion early, which is already a powerful enough motivator for most people if they were going to play anyway.

Menphina's earrings only go up to level 80, when there's already the Azemya earrings which go up to 90, instantly invalidating them. So unless you don't pre-order the next two expansions in a row and also don't plan to level up everything past 100 in the next 4~ years in order to capitalize on a "cheaper" set of earrings sold by a future supply kit that are stronger than Azeyma's, The inclusion of these earrings has basically zero relevancy to anyone who's not a newer player outside of some extremely odd "I swiped my card for these during a limited time window so now no one in the future should ever have the option" gatekeeping mindset.

The White Ravens were a far more egregious incident than this, this pack is an extreme nothing burger on the grand scheme.

[Bellsong]

"Why even pre-order!?!?" cries out people who ignore early access (the actual expansion launch) and the fact that they were going to buy the game regardless of the pre-order items.

Just wait till they find out SE sells the digital collector items...

[LibitIncarne]

How come these versions of the emotes and parasol are account-wide but buying them normally is character-based?

[Aneshda]

At this Point, why is SE selling those "old" Earrings? Why has that lazy Bunch not made some new ones? Another Design, another Name? Same for the All Saints Wake Glamour Reward. Was it so hard to create something new? How often did we had that design now as Glamour? Besides that this design is so male, not a single peace for females.

[ovIm]

I am torn. On one hand, the earring is from a way earlier expansion, and really, I could not care less if this is sold on extra to help new players. Despite me disliking the existence of the cash shop a lot.

On the other, this is the same kinda starter pack we get in games with way worse monetization methods, which makes me a bit afraid of what may come next.