Upcoming Fantasian Neo Dimension x FFXIV items

[Avoidy]

Ironically, this makes me not want them anymore if they're going to be vile and add FOMO to the cash shop. I was never a fan of "limited" cosmetics in other online games, so FF14 doesn't get a pass here either.

Straight into the garbage they go.

Like a pot of water heating slowly, this game's been steadily headed into this direction at an almost glacial pace for years. I used to try and tell people. Once I even suggested boycotting the cash shop, and it got me a 10 day ban from these forums. Every time I tried to boycott anything that I felt encouraged bad consumer practices, I'd go into Limsa and see everyone else wearing the thing anyway. So the process continued. Voting with your wallet doesn't work. Even on a larger scale, the video game industry in general is simply cooked. For years I avoided the console scene and the Triple-A industry because of how bad it is. I didn't want to encourage more of that garbage with my money. But everyone else bought it anyway, and now here we are, 80 dollar games incomplete at launch with microtransactions out the ass.

Finally, one day, I just got tired of it. I was purposefully avoiding things I wanted to enjoy, and for what? Things just kept getting worse anyway, because gamers have 0 standards as a collective. The industry is cooked. The wrong lessons are always learned. No matter how often I painfully voted with my wallet, I was outvoted by whales who didn't give a shit. So I don't care about taking a principled stance anymore, not for something as banal as this anyway. Clearly the people have chosen, and this is the path forward for the game. I may as well enjoy myself and buy the damn hair since it's the first nice one they've made (imo) in years. Good on you for sticking to your guns, but as someone who did that for years, it's not worth it for these people and this game is cooked. Has been for years. b2p + sub + cash shop is insane and it's only getting worse because limsa whales have no self control and investors demand bigger and bigger profits so even if we all collectively said no, they'd still probably keep doing it anyway or pivot to mobile where the base is truly whipped. If I see something I like nowadays, I just enjoy it while I can and save my energy for battles that are worth fighting. Luckily, sooooooooo many games are hot garbage now, and so much mogstation stuff is just slop, that this hasn't really been a problem anyway, but yeah.

Sorry for the doomer post btw, I'm just tired. Being a conscious gaming consumer for years was hard, and it was really frustrating because there were so many moments where people would be like "let's boycott [thing]" and then [thing] would break records anyway. I'm tired of "gamers." I'm tired of my hobby turning into this. I'm tired of shareholders. But more than anything, I'm tired of denying myself things I want while nothing changes. This rant was a long time coming, sorry again. Good luck remaining true to your beliefs. It's hella admirable, but gamers will never change and things will continue to get worse no matter what.