Lightning Returns Again (Thank you Square)

[Ayuhra]

FFXIV's cash shop is fine in my opinion. It's unobtrusive, some things on it were obtainable for free if you were there at the time and that's fair. If the company is underfunded and gets extra funding from the cash shop that money goes into the game first to make the game more self sustaining. It helps keep servers running. Windfall doesn't land in the pockets of the dev team to give them new cars, that's not how these things usually work in this kind of situation.

I can't help but wonder if the WoW cash shop has soured everyone towards cash shops in MMOs in general. THAT cash shop is indeed exploitative and most cool things like pets and mounts showcased by Blizzard go there instead of into the game (that the recent moose mount was an in game reward blew people's minds). There is a button so you can use the cash shop IN GAME and not have to log out or minimize. Mounts that were clearly supposed to be faction rewards in Warlords went there instead. You can buy a boost to the level cap to avoid leveling. I have little doubt that Activision played a role there. Activision is money-grabbing and not at all underfunded, they might be one of the most lucrative producers in the industry. Bobby "IP Killer" Kotick is always boasting about the money Activision makes and has said he doesn't even like games. Not everyone who has a company that uses a cash shop is Bobby Kotick.

One of my favorite cash shops is the one for Elder Scrolls Online but that one is built around the idea of the optional sub fee.

[bounddreamer]

Why are we complaining so much? e.e

It's a forum. Someone's always gonna complain about something?

[Stormrider]

FFXIV's cash shop is fine in my opinion. It's unobtrusive, some things on it were obtainable for free if you were there at the time and that's fair. If the company is underfunded and gets extra funding from the cash shop that money goes into the game first to make the game more self sustaining. It helps keep servers running. Windfall doesn't land in the pockets of the dev team to give them new cars, that's not how these things usually work in this kind of situation.

Do you feel since the cash shops implementation we have gotten more content. That server structure for all not just EU has improved?

[KaitlanKela]

Hey, I just wanted to say this...

I think the cash shop is a good idea if everything is glamor and it actually gets funneled back into FFXIV. Problem is, both of those tenants are questionable to say the least (Everything is glamor now, but... They say it's for FFXIV, but...). Until I see some proof that the cash shop is benefiting the subscribers of FFXIV as opposed to making FFVII 2.0 or producing manga or something, I (personally) will not be availing myself of anything from it.

Hey, I don't think anybody LIKES the cash shop (I mean, who would pay REAL money to have items IF they were made available in-game through crafting/questing instead? Let me pay out $$ to NOT play this game that I'm paying more $$ for...wtf?), BUT it's there. The only way to tell SE we really don't like it is to not use it.

[ScarletDawn]

Someone link the JP announcement plz? I cant find it on their lodestone.

[Matrinka]

Someone link the JP announcement plz? I cant find it on their lodestone.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...E5%AE%9F/page3

[Ayuhra]

Do you feel since the cash shops implementation we have gotten more content. That server structure for all not just EU has improved?

I wasn't around at all prior to the shop so I couldn't say. If they have investors, investors are paid first. They do infrastructure maintenance in this game fairly regularly so they are at least constantly tweaking backend server issues, the kinds we might not notice.

I do wish they would update the servers to carry bigger loads and maybe merge servers with barely functioning populations but I don't know how their infrastructure works, that could be costly. It took years for WoW to develop server tech to merge Realms and that game has much more cash flow than this.

I will say that this game has more frequent and more impressive content updates than most other MMOs on the market, including ones supplemented by cash shops, so that's something.

[ScarletDawn]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...E5%AE%9F/page3

Thank very much

Still a bit confused is there no date yet? Or was it going to be store bought, i couldn't quite make it out.

[darkwithless]

Thank very much

Still a bit confused is there no date yet? Or was it going to be store bought, i couldn't quite make it out.

The tittle of this thread is misleading, there is no event. The items are going to be added to the cash shop.

[silentwindfr]

i'm happy for the one that did miss it...
now about the talk of the amount of cash reinvest into FF14 it's sure it was never SE priority... they have FF15 that cost them tons of cash, Kingdom heart 3 and now FF7 remake... all three are major triple A with a lot of investiment
where do you think they get the money for pay the developement of this type of game? Dragon quest online and Final Fantasy 14 are used for this.... it's a sad reality!