Ffxiv monthly sub isn't stretching & response to PCGAMER article

[Raven2014]

Honestly with all respect I don’t think you completely know what you are talking about.
You saw a bad gacha system and push it on every other one without being neutral.

A common trend among these posters seem either they talk out ignorance, or prejudice, or both. It's like if you ask an average FF14 player how much does the game cost or how grinding it is ... the most common answer would probably 15$ a month on average, maybe 20-30 extra occasionally for skin/fantasia, grind is probably 2-3 months for BiS, a month of two for an EX mount .etc. Instead, someone with an agenda gonna say: oh it will take YEARS for you to get the best mount (tiger hunt), and you gonna spend hunred if not close to thousands of dollar to get everything in the game!!

And that's exactly you see what happening here. These people take the biggest whale and try to frame it as the "average player experience", while the fact that the average gacha players don't really spend any difference than an MMO players.

Wish I could agree more.
That’s what annoys me the most. Saying Gacha is bad while defending MMOs.
Both are systems on a scummy principle and both have bad sheep and good quality games that are completely fair.
You can take the expansive shortcut in both types of games but it’s not needed in either of them.

It's a perception things. People can spend 3k for a weekend at Hawaii they thought you're just living life. But when they hear you spend 3k for a weekend at Las Vegas, they think you probably have a gambling problem. And you can tell the people who think like that are the one who never had set foot to Las Vegas, and they won't believe you if you tell them 3k actually go a lot farther in Vegas than a place like Hawaii.

There is a reason why bias is often the biggest enemy of objective thinking. I play FF14 for 10 years now and I have not buy a single glamour items from the mogstore despite there is a lot of them I want, and despite there were a period where I was deeply in love with FF14. Simply because I find the idea of paying 20$ or more for an item that is NOT account bound is scummy. So for one, I find self control is not that big of a deal. And for two, between that and the house demolition things, I find it pretty moronic when people try to argue on behalf of FF14 on the ground of morality.