can we please talk about character customization options?

[Vejjiegirl]

The cash shop money is used for two things:

1: Cash Shop Items
2: SE profits

Neither generates any actual content for the game. The content they do introduce gets stripped down for Cash Shop monetisation (Weddings, Dyes, Odin).

Yoshi-P stated that cash shop funds will be going towards in game vanity content and side costs(like EU servers).

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ning_ceremony/

• Now talking about vocal opinion of players of cash shop, especially some worried opinions

• Reiterates no pay to win

• Minions sold in cash shop? NOT EXCLUSIVE to cash shop (I think, he said ingame and I may have misunderstood)

• Using those funds to create more vanity/minions/etc. that won't just be cash shop-exclusive, or doing other things like adding the new EU datacenter. Want to use those profits to give back to the community

Although atm i'm taking this with a grain of salt since we have yet to see those minions in game, (along with the new red/blue/green metallic dyes)
And we now have slight "pay to win" in game thanks to the sales of Premium and gold weddings in game.
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On Topic, I really hope they would do a focus on vanity and player customization in the future, the bug fix they did to female Roegadyn Lips was a great start! I really hope they fix those baldspot in almost every hairstyle though.

[Aegis]

Yoshi-P stated that cash shop funds will be going towards in game vanity content and side costs(like EU servers).

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ning_ceremony/


Although atm i'm taking this with a grain of salt since we have yet to see those minions in game, (along with the new red/blue/green metallic dyes)
And we now have slight "pay to win" in game thanks to the sales of Premium and gold weddings in game.
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On Topic, I really hope they would do a focus on vanity and player customization in the future, the bug fix they did to female Roegadyn Lips was a great start! I really hope they fix those baldspot in almost every hairstyle though.

I'll have to check that out tonight as work blocks reddit, but I'm sad to say I don't trust those kind of announcements from Yoshi-P any more. This time last year, I wouldn't have made that statement, but he's changed his mind or told us that we misunderstood him too often now.

eg Minions 'Not Exlusive to Cash Shop' could just mean that they will be tradeable like bands are.

The other points (not P2W, Minions not exclusive etc) are already wrong. They have released tradeable items already (+dyes) and the minions are exclusive to cash shop.