Why do casual players seem entitled to cosmetic items added in game?

[Hallarem]

The price will eventually go down.
I wish people complained about the lack of effort to improve gameplay and their old a** stale formula with the same fervor.

One can hope, maybe when the japanese officeworkers who have 1.5 hours per week to play speak up.

[CNitsah]

The price will eventually go down.

That's not a given. There are legitimate concern about the content dying (outside of occasional discord runs) under a couple a month and the supply becomes very limited or dries out, and teh price never go down. It could even go up. People were right when they said EO and criterion would die under a few weeks, they could also be right about this. Time will tell, but I wouldn't bet it's gonna fall that much.

[MrJPtheAssassin]

The price will eventually go down.
I wish people complained about the lack of effort to improve gameplay and their old a** stale formula with the same fervor.

One can hope, maybe when the japanese officeworkers who have 1.5 hours per week to play speak up.

That is highly unlikely as time goes on. In fact, I see the price skyrocketing pass what it is now bc this content will die off. The ppl who is farming the fight now will stop since the exp of pfing this fight is a nightmare and as soon as they get everything they want they will completely stop. When that happens it will get harder and harder to find 24 players to even do the fight and less ppl will do it. With less ppl doing it means there will be fewer hairstyles gotten(remember the hairstyle doesn't drop 100% of the time, its a rare drop and to buy it with tokens you have to clear the fight 46 times!) With fewer hairstyles going around the ppl do get it will raise the price since there are only a few on the MB. So no the price will not eventually go down, it will most likely stay high or even go higher as time goes on.

[sindriiisgaming]

That is highly unlikely as time goes on. In fact, I see the price skyrocketing pass what it is now bc this content will die off. The ppl who is farming the fight now will stop since the exp of pfing this fight is a nightmare and as soon as they get everything they want they will completely stop. When that happens it will get harder and harder to find 24 players to even do the fight and less ppl will do it. With less ppl doing it means there will be fewer hairstyles gotten(remember the hairstyle doesn't drop 100% of the time, its a rare drop and to buy it with tokens you have to clear the fight 46 times!) With fewer hairstyles going around the ppl do get it will raise the price since there are only a few on the MB. So no the price will not eventually go down, it will most likely stay high or even go higher as time goes on.

im not sure about this. the criterion dungeon rewards went from 50>30>20>10 mil and i have not seen them climb. that could be because criterion is more accessible but if CODCAR can be unsynced then ppl will unsync the rewards next expansion

[Kaurhz]

The price will eventually go down.
I wish people complained about the lack of effort to improve gameplay and their old a** stale formula with the same fervor.

One can hope, maybe when the japanese officeworkers who have 1.5 hours per week to play speak up.

It's actually far more logical for the price to increase. The bonus for first time clears is only for the first time, so not every instance will be as many demimateria, and with the content having the novelty factor it currently does, this will be the time where the supply will likely be at the greatest. Once the novelty factor has wore off then the content will not be ran as much, and equally as more players clear, which they are -- Then there will be far, far less bonus Demimateria going around, thus eventually people will need to actually farm for the hairstyle and not have it indirectly guaranteed for being in an instance with entirely new people. Yesterday the price of hairstyle was around 18M, now it has gone back up again to 25M.

It will likely be that it has some ups and downs between now and just after new years, then once we get closer to 7.2 it will spike in price. It's more likely that the price trajectory will align more with the Aidoneus minion (Which was originally 25M on-content, now spiking up to 50M because very select few do the content that rewards it.. This is the far more likely instance, versus crafting which the supply of the item will always match the demand pretty well.

The disdain for "casuals' always amuses me because the success of FFXIV is because of us - period. Without us logging in, enjoying our houses, GPOSING, running venues, and contributing our sub, you extreme raiders would have NADA, ZERO, ZILCH. And now? With the anemic casual content, and stuff we'd love to do being pushed back further into later patches, and SE going all in on hardcore content for the 2% of the game population, we are starting to not care and bounce. Let's see how long 14 sustains when the playerbase you so loathe, all says...you know what? We're done.

If I am honest, this situation has exposed and put an absolute glaring light on how bad the community actually can be sometimes.