Honestly, let SE make as much money as they can.

[Ikeda]

IMO people are against cash shop simply out of principle

FFXIV's subscriptions are what swung SE back into profitability after suffering consecutive years of losses and as more patches gets added and subscribers levels out after the initial hype phase, FFXIV might no longer be profitable enough or even profitable to justify the resources dedicated to it. This is of course a hypothesis and I personally do not actively support cash shops in the traditional P2W sense but I am open to see how it could've been implemented differently e.g cash shop vanity items only being for early access to them and that the rest of the player-base can acquire them through in-game means on a later date.

I see no wrong for SE trying to stabilize their revenues from FFXIV and I understand their imperative from a business standpoint.

Again FFXI has gone for 10 years with no cash shop and has been SE's most profitable game. It's running on about 300k subscribers at most right now. Unless FFXIV some how manages to drop below 100k subscribers they have no business even thinking of a cash shop. Not even a vanity cash shop.

[BearGrylls]

Vanity is a big deal to me personally. The gameplay isn't as fun if you don't look awesome while you're doing it. So the day they add a cash shop to a game i'm already paying a subscription for is the day i quit, even if its just vanity and doesn't effect gameplay in any way.

[Doo]

Vanity is a big deal to me personally. The gameplay isn't as fun if you don't look awesome while you're doing it. gameplay in any way.

Vanity is nice and all but if you don't have any content to do you'll just afk in Mor Dhona most of the looking pretty.

[ItzKris]

I don't think it is a good idea in the least bit making people pay more given ESO and Wildstar are just around the corner.
They should have those options available in game.
If they really need revenue, they should have started selling fantasia potions long ago.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...tation/page152
That thread has 152 pages with 10 posts per page... there's a lot of interest.

[Arkghyom]

Money makerz!

[Heat]

the fact that people use VPN to play this game is enough.

[KhalidTheGreat]

I'm sorry? Make as much monry as they can?

I thought the main idea of having a p2p game was so we only pay for the subscripton fee. Every paying customer pays the same and gets the same in return.

There shouldn't be any in-game advantages for people who pay more. That just brings back nightmares of cash shops and pay-to-win design that im sure everyone here is so sick of.

I love this game and SE as a whole for that matter, but the main reason I bought ff14 was to get away from all f2p games and just try a legit game where you actually have to work to get stuff, not pay.

Edit: also, with 1.8 million subscribers I highly doubt that they need the extra cash.

[Zwipe]

If it keeps FFXIV from turning into a full blown F2P/Cash Shop with a bunch of in-game ads chest that require real money to unlock, I wouldn't mind paying an extra 2 bucks if i really needed a retainer. I still don't understand how people can justify spending $500 on a graphics card or latest console, yet consider an extra 2 dollars a month on a retainer "being taken advantage of."

[Shneibel]

but what is the big deal about that vanity market anyway ? it is optional

[Amberion]

but what is the big deal about that vanity market anyway ? it is optional

Because everything that ends up in a cash shop, should have been made in game in some way. Everything in a cash shop means it wasn't added as in game content.