Quote Originally Posted by Xeronia View Post
I was waiting for someone to bring up WoW being "So much worse" about monetization. I got rather bored and compared both stores after seeing a claim about 14 being far more expensive and yeah that wasn't a lie at all. Here is a breakdown by section and I am assuming you own the game if you are looking at these and even if I didn't 14 would still be losing heavily. Now of course this is a simple number to numbers comparison and you realistically will not be buying the whole store for each game of even be buy an entire section like fantasia for example or every character service and toke in WoW.

WoW Shop

Charity- $20
Bundels-$54.99
Mounts-$730
Pets-$170
Toys-$30
Transmog-$158
Character services-$199.99
----Total- $1362.98

FF14 Shop

Fantasia- $83
Character services- $28
Bundles- $9.99
Costume sets- $1478
Mounts-$870.95
Emotes-$272.50
Dyes- $170
Weapons- $110
Tools- $3
Armor-$292
Accessories- $60
Minions- $232.91
Chocobo-barding- $99
Music- $280
Housing- $1037.50
Face paint- $7
Fashion accessories- $3

-----Total-$5036.85

That $90 brontosaur while overly expensive in pricing isn't even close to the death of a million small micro-tranactions ff14 is. You are free to correct my numbers as well as I admit I am human and may have entered something wrong. I am by no means trying to paint WoW as being better but I wanted realistic data of the stores for comparison.
What about physical merch with item codes?