FFXIV could single-handledly save SE if they handled the cash shop better

[TheRealDesastr]

You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

If they just made every current item account-wide (and for limited use items, gave them a cooldown instead of being finite), people would likely buy more because for a lot of folks, they don't see the value in buying something for only one character or the risk of losing something that could only be used a certain number of times/be lost if removed from housing.

Even fantasias would probably sell more if they repackaged it as something you could use once every 30 days once you've bought the special vial, same with job and story skips.

I'll be in the category of proving you right. Because I would actually buy more from the cash shop if it was all account bound, yep. At the moment, I'm sleeping on virtually all cash shop items aside from mounts and don't plan on ever getting anything again because they're not shared on alts (and none of the mounts have been of interest). But if everything was shared, I would treat myself here or there every so often to some goodies, yeah.

(Your 'special vial' idea is brilliant, man I wish that was a thing...)

Also the housing limit thing is a great point, I feel like the limited thing and the idea that it could be lost is a huge deterrent.

Anyway - yeah, no, expanding the shop and all of the ideas in OP's thread aren't going to help and would make things worse, I don't support it one bit.