Cash Shop Overpriced?

[Fyrebrand]

There's no way I could bring myself to spend $24 in a game just to make a digital horse graphic look slightly different, considering all the other full games on Steam I could get for that amount. Sorry, it just does not make any sense.

Remember the hoopla over Oblivion's horse armor DLC? This is like that, times ten. And you didn't even pay a subscription for Oblivion.

I'm totally pro-cash shop if it has only vanity items, and I'd love to support SE

The price on the mount isn't ridiculous if you compare it to WoW mount pricing which is pretty much the same.

[OdinEon]

24 bucks ÷ potentially 8 toons = 3 bucks each, riding around on something that took me less than 1 work hour to buy for months to come, seems pretty reasonable to me.

[Kyri]

Im ok with a cash shop but to take 1 fantasia to all characters for $10 then decide to cater to the players by changing it to -one- fantasia on -one- character left me very unimpressed

[Sakuraluna]

Im ok with a cash shop but to take 1 fantasia to all characters for $10 then decide to cater to the players by changing it to -one- fantasia on -one- character left me very unimpressed

I'm with you on the fantasias. I think everything else seems reasonably priced, but I'm not sure why they kept the fantasias priced the way they did since you're obviously getting less for your money now. If you have three characters and play them regularly, it now costs 3x what it used to for one fantasia to each of them. Even if they'd lowered the price by a couple dollars or so, it'd still at least look a little better on SE. That's what I was expecting them to do.

[Tupsi]

Too bad though, that Yoshida not only had the team play it for a year but was very clear about following after it. So it doesn't matter what you think, Yoshida thinks otherwise. Also you're mostly paying to simply access the game, you can be terminated at any point in time if SE feels like it.

And yes, you hit: "I Agree" to that. Read the terms next time.

Im ok with a cash shop but to take 1 fantasia to all characters for $10 then decide to cater to the players by changing it to -one- fantasia on -one- character left me very unimpressed

It was never going to be permanently like that - they stated as such, they said that's exactly why once you bought all current fantasias you couldn't buy anymore because it was a temporary system.

[Jynx]

you can be terminated at any point in time if SE feels like it.

Why would Square Enix terminate his account because he dissagrees with the cash shop?

He has a point, we pay a subscription not to just "Get into the game" that fee is to go towards the cost of the servers and the continued development of content for the game. Square doesn't just make content out of the love in their heart, they do it with profits in mind for continued subscriptions.

People have a good point to look at the cash shop with some reservations, the developers have allready cut content out of the game to put it into the cash shop for exorbitant prices. I mean seriously you can play the game for 2 months for what it costs for a Vanity mount? Maybe I come from a different generation but that just doesn't click for me, that's why I just shake my head when I see it and wish I had a switch to turn all cash shop purchases invisible so I could see the acheivments people earned and didn't just drop their wallet on.

[Tupsi]

Why would Square Enix terminate his account because he dissagrees with the cash shop?

In the terms you agreed to it says they can terminate your account at will - Almost every company has this clause, very few enforces it. Has nothing to do with disagreeing with the cash shop. This is why people need to actually read that wall of text lol, it would save a lot of headaches when SE decides to do something that's actually standard in this industry.

Every social and MMO game has a cash shop of some kind, arguing against it is honestly like arguing against offline titles receiving DLC.

He has a point, we pay a subscription not to just "Get into the game"

You're paying for your right to even access the game above all - the money they make goes towards whatever SE sees fit actually, kind of like how FFXI funded most of their projects.

[Fayto]

He has a point, we pay a subscription not to just "Get into the game" that fee is to go towards the cost of the servers and the continued development of content for the game.

Sorry, but no. That sub fee is just to get into the game. The EULA that we agree to states, in every video game we buy, that we only buy a license to play the game. MMOs are unique that we have to keep renewing this license every month with a sub fee.

[Asierid]

ITT: Dense people that don't know what a EULA is or what it says.

Doesn't matter if it is expensive to you. Enough people have already bought it during your whining to pay for the extra webpage and pixels. Don't like it? Don't buy it. Still have a raging hard-on over this issue? Unsub, least I don't have to read about it in-game then.

People forget the forums are the vocal minority here. The fact that the issue is split makes it even more trivial. The prices are set based on a standard set by other games (Mainly Blizzard). It works for them and they make money, so why not follow what works. Business people. Business.

[Mysteran]

Sorry, but no. That sub fee is just to get into the game. The EULA that we agree to states, in every video game we buy, that we only buy a license to play the game. MMOs are unique that we have to keep renewing this license every month with a sub fee.

So I guess everyone that keeps bringing this up is okay with that being as much as they get from their subscription?

"to access SQUARE ENIX's servers to play the Game"

That's a pretty broad statement. But if that's all you believe you should get from the game then there shouldn't be any problem with them charging extra for any of the following on top of the subscription:
Each race
Each class
Each zone
Each quest
Each item
DX11 client
"Enhanced Graphics Pack" (They could just bump down the basic client to extreme minimal graphics. After all, you don't need good graphics to play the game)

Pretty much anything inside or outside of the game can be sold a la carte with that attitude. They only need to provide the absolute minimum to do some sort of semblance of playing the game to fulfill that agreement.

They won't do that though. Not and remain a subscription based game. You know why? Because it's a really stupid move. They would go well beyond what most people would consider value vs cost. But they could. And they'd be within their right to do so per the User Agreement. A lot of the people against the cash shop believe that the value of the subscription is lowered by introduction of a means to obtain in-game items (vanity is still an item and a lot of people make goals around them) with just a quick RMT.

And sure, SE is in no way obligated to put any money provided via subscription back into the game. But again, they'd be stupid not to. If they want people to continue to subscribe they need to provide value for that subscription. So they will put at least some of that back into the game to maintain their income.

In short, saying "They can do it because the EULA says you only pay for access to the servers to play the game" is a very hollow argument in my opinion.