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

[ClausL]

takes life way to seriously and thinks opinion matters :3

Try to be somewhat coherent.

[Zenaku]

Like they did for 11 years with FFXI? It's their most profitable Final Fantasy game, and it has no cash shop.

Wanna know a great way to make the "most money"?

Putting all your development resources into content that can instantly be enjoyed by all your subscribers (helping retain them) without limitations, instead of diluting your resources and shifting your development model to try and make your users buy as much stuff as possible.

Which i what they did with XI, very successfully.



Paid services and microtransactions are two very different things. Next thing you'll say in your endless grasping at straws is that the monthly fee is a microtransaction.

Try harder.

Why are people comparing ffxi with ffxiv? Did FFXI fail and had to be remake 100%? you think they can easy make the money back with just people paying for the game? FFXIV right now is at a lost meaning if ffxi took 5years to make back it's money it would take much longer for something like ffxiv which have voice over, and lot of other stuff

I not saying that they should have cash shop i'm saying i don't see why they wont be one if there a market for them. Even when you go out and buy a CE what does it come with? a dam pet or a mount that cash shop right there. I see cash shop at some point in FFXIV because there is a market for it and people would be willing to buy them.

[ShinigamiKayla]

Why are people comparing ffxi with ffxiv? Did FFXI fail and had to be remake 100%? you think they can easy make the money back with just people paying for the game? FFXIV right now is at a lost meaning if ffxi took 5years to make back it's money it would take much longer for something like ffxiv which have voice over, and lot of other stuff

I not saying that they should have cash shop i'm saying i don't see why they wont be one if there a market for them. Even when you go out and buy a CE what does it come with? a dam pet or a mount that cash shop right there. I see cash shop at some point in FFXIV because there is a market for it and people would be willing to buy them.

ffxi had a cash shop didnt they had the necklace where u get the ingame item... and a few others like that : <

[Vilhem]

I wouldn't really call those "cash shop". I bought one because I wanted some XI stuff that wasn't just pixels..the code was just a bonus. I thought of these items more as just more merch for the fans to collect, similar to OST and plush things of that sort.

[Zumi]

I am sure its set up in a way to allow promo codes to get ingame items like they do with FFXI.

[Pwnagraphic]

All I've seen mentioned how to get them was some vendors will sell them, and some will drop off certain mobs.

[Rex]

No.

/10charactersYou'vegottobekiddingme.