Quote Originally Posted by Ankhira View Post
Exaggerating much? The Mog Station is frustrating with how much they put on their, yeah, especially with old event items getting locked behind it instead of rerunning in-game. But comparing it to gacha is a stretch. In FFXIV, you buy something and you’re guaranteed to get it. In gacha, you can drop €100 and still not hit pity, and sometimes the game balance itself pressures you to pull certain characters or weapons. That’s actual predatory design. Mog Station items are strictly cosmetic, incredibly annoying that all the good stuff goes on there, yes, but not remotely the same level of FOMO- predatory driven monetization that gacha thrives on.
This game already offers FOMO effects with "if you don't do this event, you'll have to pay for items in shop!". Already a thing. Then raiding is another thing where if you don't do it immediately, all raids will become: "[Duty complete]" as a must. So good luck there.
Farming new fresh items and obtaining them? You better hurry to get them now, or few months later. If you come after 1 year or so, prices will skyrocket and no longer be cheap, thus you missed a chance to buy it at a low price when everybody was playing.

Also why they like to sell stuff "per char" instead of "per account"? How is that fair? When other games offer much more support? Crazy I know.

Trying to play with a friend but you just started? Better pay for that MSQ skip.

Doing achievements for new trains, mounts that come from stupid train achievements of kill 2000-5000 S ranks? Better do it at start of expansion or you'll never get it since they remove multiple layers and now it's harder and harder to farm.

Already mentioned here a lot of FOMO things about this game.