Is our sub fee not enought

[seraf]

I feel really bad if SE cant create content with that amount of money..I mean if they can only exists by selling us more and more cash shop items..wouldnt that mean that the future of FF14 might not look so good?

Pretty sure I read somewhere once that Mogstation profits go to SE not to the FFXIV Dev team.

[Alleo]

Pretty sure I read somewhere once that Mogstation profits go to SE not to the FFXIV Dev team.

Well all the money that is earned will probably go to SE and not the dev team since they are a big company. And from all the money that SE earned the dev team will get a budget that they will have to work with. So there is a high chance that all we do with buying these things is making more money for SE itself.

@Seig345+ Kuroneko_Jutah: Well I dont raid and I love collecting pets and mounts, I also like to glamour my character..yet if I want a complete list I would need to buy something for real life money. At least for me this makes the game a little less enjoyable..also where does it stop? Raid is only done by a small percentage of the player base. So is it alright if they put this content behind a paywall too? Glamour is to some what raiding is to others. Why is it acceptable to have to pay for glamour but not for raids? They might start with only those items in the cash shop but I fear what they will put there in the future..

[Kuroneko_Jutah]

*snip*

I do actually agree that more of these types of items should be made available through other means, or at the very least brought down to a reasonable price. But I'm not picky about how I spend my entertainment budget. If I want something from mog station badly enough, I will pay for it. As far as I'm concerned, I'm supporting my favorite game in this way. I'm not going to sit here and point fingers at Yoshi for a decision that was in all likelihood made by someone else entirely, and more to the point, someone who doesn't report to him.

[Seig345]

I don't even get into these CS arguments... I'm not a digital hoarder, and place value in my own progress and actions in the game, not how many shiny seasonal/cash shop exclusive baubles I have hanging off my character like a Christmas tree.

Tons of one off things I'm missing despite having played the game since launch in 2010, and my enjoyment of the game doesn't suffer in the slightest from it.

[Kuroneko_Jutah]

Subscription fees do not entitle you to anything other than access to Square's game servers. Threads like this are nothing new, the vocal minority will always have something to complain about, whether its cash shop items, classes being announced that aren't in the roles they wanted, or 24 man trials that get turned into trash mobs :^)

[SundayTrash]

In that case wheres our in game parsers we been asking for, why not put it in the mog station, so ppl can buy it up and realize how much they suck and actually learn to play instead of requesting more mog station exclusive.

[Kuroneko_Jutah]

In that case wheres our in game parsers we been asking for, why not put it in the mog station, so ppl can buy it up and realize how much they suck and actually learn to play instead of requesting more mog station exclusive.

They don't want to put a parser in the game because they're (rightly) afraid of someone breaking into it and reverse engineering the damage formulas so they can manipulate and exploit them. But why am I bothering to tell you, you'll just call it an excuse and continue your angry ranting from your e-soapbox.

[alimdia]

They don't want to put a parser in the game because they're (rightly) afraid of someone breaking into it and reverse engineering the damage formulas so they can manipulate and exploit them. But why am I bothering to tell you, you'll just call it an excuse and continue your angry ranting from your e-soapbox.

Fearmongering isn't gonna win you points.

[seraf]

Fearmongering isn't gonna win you points.

The part about people using an official parser to reverse engineer or datamine how damage formulas work is actually a legit concern for SE and is probably one of the reasons they have been reluctant to add one at all.

[Kuroneko_Jutah]

The part about people using an official parser to reverse engineer or datamine how damage formulas work is actually a legit concern for SE and is probably one of the reasons they have been reluctant to add one at all.

And the reason why the excuse is always "people will use it to harass low parsers" is because they don't want to give anyone the real reason why. It may be a small price to pay to keep hackers and dataminers in the dark, but I'd just as soon the actual combat mechanics in the game stay proprietary and we not have people cheating the system for personal gain.