Is our sub fee not enought

[Shougun]

[edit] Around 12:40, it's translated he mentions using the profits to add new things such as the EU data centre.

More housing options ! Wait, do you hear that? ... WOOOSH! That's the sound of all those new lots being purchased under an hour of being open haha. I should make an instanced house billboard or something so I can post it on the fly lol. Hope Yoshida has seen Wildstar, or out of the last 10 posts that I mentioned it that one of our forum gods suggested they check it out (just the housing system, suggest the trailer its short and easy to see~ lol) XD...

Just to add though this link doesn't prove that cash shop was used for adding more inventory space, but that they said that they use cash shop funds for somethings (like EU server). I'm sure some of it is helpful to the game, and other games.

A random aside.. I've always wondered if these fan fests (not just FFXIV, other games too) could find a better way to include everyone (while of course keeping the goodies to those who get the virtual ticket). I feel its a bit funny that A. it's incredibly easy to get around these things (every blizzcon like 50 different options pop up) B. pay or don't be considered a fan (?). Perhaps besides the virtual reward they could add an after party instance in game people could join and give a bunch of fireworks or something lol, then allow a non-premium stream to the public on twitch.

Even though since I've made the comparison it's worth mentioning Blizzcon's opening ceremony is free, you just don't get to watch the panels which tend to have a lot of info in them too.

[Ghishlain]

More housing options ! Wait, do you hear that? ... WOOOSH! That's the sound of all those new lots being purchased under an hour of being open haha. I should make an instanced house billboard or something so I can post it on the fly lol. Hope Yoshida has seen Wildstar, or out of the last 10 posts that I mentioned it that one of our forum gods suggested they check it out (just the housing system, suggest the trailer its short and easy to see~ lol) XD...

Man, don't get me started on the FFXIV housing file, I have a lot of choice words for it and none of them are positive, sadly >>;...

Just to add though this link doesn't prove that cash shop was used for adding more inventory space, but that they said that they use cash shop funds for somethings (like EU server). I'm sure some of it is helpful to the game, and other games.

I was just putting that link out there since it was mentioned in a few points throughout the OF that people weren't sure if it was quoted that the Cash Shop helped fun the EU data centre. By some rights it wouldn't be a long hard to extend that thought to say that it would be used to create server infrastructure necessary for the storage increase either. With that being said that video was from 2+ years ago and who knows what may or may not have changed in that time frame. We don't have any information about exactly what S-E spends the FFXIV profits on so any opinion we have is just conjuncture and I for one don't see too much to worry about (yet).

I don't really want to get into the the main thread discussion too much - to me I just see a lot of hyperbolic rhetoric and faulty logic being applied with real world examples that make me roll my eyes. I'm personally impartial towards cash shop as it has no positive or negative effect on me though I do have the opinion that I don't feel $7 is not too much for an emote either - my only complaint to that being it should be account wide and not single character. But it is a one time fee so comparing it to a monthly subscription seems kinda silly to me. If you play your character for a year, your $7 effectively translates into $0.58 / month and just keeps getting better from there.

I care more about game balance and job balance in some regards - oh and making an official parser =D *Prepares flame shield*

English I no goody goody, try hard - fail harder. Bring dishonor to family- please send help. :P

Bah, I've seen much worse =p Just put away that great Katana and keep going forward =p