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    Nalien's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheUltimateSeph View Post
    6. Micro transactions and cash shops are another way for the company to turn a profit and keep the game running. I fail to see how this is bad?!?
    Well, I'm sure some SE executive type is looking at FFXIV, looking at the massive amounts of money they draw in from the cash shop, and going "Why should we waste money hiring content designers to make better content for the game? Just paint that mount another colour and charge for it".

    Seriously, I'd love to see the profits SE gets from the cash shop, stuff like the Magitek Mounts and Scion outfits are existing assets, there was no cost involved in their creation (or very little, for painting the Magitek mount red, and giving Minfilias outfit to all races). They're charging 15$ (or whatever) for what exactly? The right to have it? It certainly didn't cost them anything extra to make, considering they've been around since 2.0 (for the white Magitek mount, 1.0 if you want to split hairs over the Scions outfits). It's pure profit for them, and you just know someone higher up the corporate chain is wanting to cash in on that, rather than cash in on quality content. Quality content takes time and money to produce, two things which seemingly didn't go into something like Diadem...
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    Last edited by Nalien; 02-04-2016 at 12:33 AM.