Cash Shop: Stifling development.

[Cynric]

If you play for vanity the game isn't worth your paying for anymore unless you don't mind paying those extra fees, because it's pretty obvious you will always have to now. As you could get the same experience from an F2P. However know this, even if you pay 14.99 /mo and buy everything in the cash shop once, you still paid less than you might wind up paying in an F2P game for vanity equipment, between the lottery systems and the way those games are designed FF14 is still a better value.

If you play the game to raid only, clearly the game needs to make a lot of improvements in that area as is. It's still more worth it than most games but I don't think it's worth a continued sub once content is exhausted.

If you play casually for an hour or two a day, it depends on how much you value money if this is really worth it. But that goes for any mmo.


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As for myself, do I feel like future content will be placed in the Cash shop? Of course I do, I'd have to be an idiot to think that we aren't losing things we could have gotten before inside the game to the cash shop.

Do I feel like I'm getting my moneys worth? Maybe if I only paid the legacy fee of 9.99, It might feel worth it. But for what we get per patch at entry fee 12.99 * 3 = 38.97 , every 3 months is a cycle, 2 HM, 1 new dungeon, 1 Primal 1 EX, 1 Raid update, and a few small updates throughout that time, as well as a small update to the story. I can't really say it's 100% worth the money, especially when you consider that in the future content or parts of content may be locked behind having to pay more money. An example is this month, if I wanted to get a Bond with all the bells and whistles the amount I would pay is 52.99, very close to the cost of a full game. Even thinking about it being a one time fee it doesn't feel worth the price when I could buy a full game and get 30 hours + of playtime from that game.


Of course having said all that I do still enjoy the game and continue to pay my sub because I enjoy the game. But no it doesn't feel as worth it as say the earlier 2.0 updates did.