New Mogstation Items (Magitek mount recolours inc.)

[Colorful]

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It's not FFXIV, but I believe it applies to FFXIV even more so to FFXIV. The developers of SWTOR said that with 500,000 subscribers they could not only maintain the game (including development costs), but they would also be making a substantial profit but "nothing to write home about". FFXIV's team is far smaller than SWTOR's was at the time, they are raking in money but given they're a business that tries to maximize profits, they're going to attempt to make more. FFXIV has approximately 600,000-700,000 subscribers, the substantial profit just got quite a bit larger. I believe Yoshida himself said 400,000 was enough to maintain the game and make a good enough profit for SE to keep the game running, less than SWTOR even.

[MistyMew]

My boyfriend (<3) just gave me the white one as he always heard me talking about it everytime I ended up on Castrum...
It's NOT the same one Livia uses

Some of you may remember Livia's one. What I always loved on it was the high contrast between gold/white, looked lovely to me!
For those who need a hand, here it is:



And now, this is what we get:


I'm sorry but... dull looking! Looks like it's missing things! People pay for a certain thing, you can SEE the golden detail in the thumbnail, and this is what we get.

WTF!

i like it more then the original..very pleased

[Amantisa]

i like it more then the original..very pleased

Well I'm glad there's people who likes this model :3!
I don't find it too bad myself, the only thing that's bugging me is that it says that it's Livia's one and in the thumbnail you can see the gold parts. If the thumbnail was the same as it is in reality and the description was tweaked I wouldn't mind!

[zosia]

It's not FFXIV, but I believe it applies to FFXIV even more so to FFXIV. The developers of SWTOR said that with 500,000 subscribers they could not only maintain the game (including development costs), but they would also be making a substantial profit but "nothing to write home about". FFXIV's team is far smaller than SWTOR's was at the time, they are raking in money but given they're a business that tries to maximize profits, they're going to attempt to make more. FFXIV has approximately 600,000-700,000 subscribers, the substantial profit just got quite a bit larger. I believe Yoshida himself said 400,000 was enough to maintain the game and make a good enough profit for SE to keep the game running, less than SWTOR even.

Was that statement before or after it went F2P or Freemium? I don't really keep up with SWTOR. I can see F2P/Freemium pairing well with that statement, but I am curious to know if that holds true for a pure subscription model.

We also know that SE the company is siphoning money from this game for other projects, so I don't know how much that impacts the budget of FFXIV.

[Brightshadow]

I don't mind the cash shop only thing I wish they would do is occasional specials here are some examples.

Black Friday Sell: Everything in $$$ Shop 50% off for the weekend of Black Friday.
Out of Season Sell: anything out of season 25%-50% off.
Special packages Sell: Merge seasonal items, mounts, minions etc for a good discount 35%-50%.

[AlphaFox]

All I am missing now is the armor. I do love the White Devil myself, bought it as my early christmas gift to myself

[Chayala]

What they mentioned number wise was before SWTOR went f2p and Yoshi said that flat out 400k was a more than comfortable number to take care of business. And the cost of pretty much all information tech has dropped significantly even compared to inflation. Even more so when it seems that since day one they've been running this game on the decommissioned FFXI servers from the first set that were retired.

[ToasterMan]

The way I see it, at least it isn't like TF2 where you can pay 13.00 USD for a hat. No not a costume, just a hat.

[ilichu]

i have a question about christmas eve, are we getting something new this year or those are the only things we will get (the stuff at the Mogstation)?

[Maaizr]

who else bought the fake 'stache tho?



about to be lookin fresh in that white one too