Are minions (vanity pets) going to cost real money?

[Abriael]

They actually aren't different things

besides paid server transfers, $25 in-game marriages, etc. etc. "services"

Not microtransactions.

FFXI also offered functional, paid bonus items

such as : $10 Mog Satchel (huge inventory expansion, which every player HAD to buy if you were serious about XI)
$40 Tidal Talisman (very useful equipment which could teleport your entire party)

And the bridge-dweller rears his head again in trying so hard to warp reality to try and intentionally mislead and fit a false theorem.

both of those items have nothing to do with microtransactions. They are in-game items granted as bonuses for the purchase of out-of-game goods (the mog satchel for the security token and the tidal talisman for a physical necklace).

No more no less than the commemorative items granted for going to a distant world concert or collectibles for a collector's edition. Nothing to do with microtransactions and cash shops whatsoever.

Try harder, you're amusing in how you try to spin reality to prove complete falsehoods.

In the meanwhile reality stands: FFXI is the most profitable Final Fantasy game and has no microtransactions or cash shops whatsoever.

[ClausL]

The bottom line is that they were entirely functional in-game items (which gave players a huge advantage) and costed real money.

They were pay to win items, and there's no way to dispute that.

I don't see why you white knight Square Enix so much, they're not as good as you think they are.

if Square offers nothing but cosmetic pets and mounts in XIV, consider yourself lucky... keep in mind we're talking about the company that charged people extra for the ending to XIII-2

[Abriael]

The bottom line is that they were entirely functional in-game items (which gave players a huge advantage) and costed real money.

Nope. They costed nothing as they were just a free bonus for the purchase of an out-of-game item.

Absolutely no different from the bonus items granted for a collector's edition or attending an event, and nothing to do with microtransactions and cash shops whatsoever.

I don't see why you white knight Square Enix so much, they're not as good as you think they are.

Unfortunately for you taking your intentionally false and misleading arguments and tearing them to pieces has nothing to do with "white knighting" whatsoever, as much as you'd love to paint it so.

[Shioban]

Not microtransactions.



And the bridge-dweller rears his head again in trying so hard to warp reality to try and intentionally mislead and fit a false theorem.

both of those items have nothing to do with microtransactions. They are in-game items granted as bonuses for the purchase of out-of-game goods (the mog satchel for the security token and the tidal talisman for a physical necklace).

No more no less than the commemorative items granted for going to a distant world concert or collectibles for a collector's edition. Nothing to do with microtransactions and cash shops whatsoever.

Try harder, you're amusing in how you try to spin reality to prove complete falsehoods.

In the meanwhile reality stands: FFXI is the most profitable Final Fantasy game and has no microtransactions or cash shops whatsoever.

Ah, bonus items for purchasing something else are common with FFXI, thats what some people may have been saying then.

When I bought FFXI Abyssea Edition recetenly to tide me over again until FFXIV:ARR I received a Berret for a new character if I wanted.

You're right, those are more rewards.


Still yet to see explicit micro-transactions.

"Give us $40 for this pig that oinks and follows you"