Stop Making Should-Be Achievement Gear.."Optional Gear"

[Bourne_Endeavor]

First, how does Yoshi not having a say matter at all? Are these people from management not part of SE? We're complaining about SE here. And again, there is no transparency with the money here, and of course they don't need to be. But you assume that the money is going into this game, when for all you know it could be going into making some next mobile game.

I don't intend to change anything by complaining on the forums. They rarely listen to forum posts, and anyone who has a negative opinion has already left the game or is banned from the forum. It's just an echo chamber here.

I also clearly don't intend to change anything with microtransactions, as I'm obviously still paying for stuff and still playing the game here. I'm not strapped for cash or anything. But the triple dipping principle and how you and others seem to think this is not only the future of gaming, but that it's necessary, is very disappointing.

Because financial matters are not handled by development teams. They are allocated a specific amount and told to produce content. Nevertheless, we have an example from Square Enix themselves in Deus Ex-- whose devs were told to include micro-transactions two weeks before the game's release. Another such example comes from EA's notorious time constraints and micromanagement of their development branches. Whomever designs gear is likely told to set aside something for the Mogstation or to make something specifically appealing to entice people into buying it. And no, I make no assumptions. I know what we pay doesn't go directly into the game. FFXIV more or less paid for FFXV and FFVII: Remake. That is simply how large corporations work. Frankly, so long as they continue to provide quality content to FFXIV, I don't particularly care. On the other hand, if it ever becomes clear they aren't focusing on XIV, I have the choice to stop supporting it.

While I have issues with how the forums are moderated. It's far from an echo chamber. We've had threads asking if Yoshi should be fired which spanned 30+ pages.

I never said it's necessary. I merely offered a pragmatic perspective. It's no different than in real world politics when people demand corporations be taxed higher. Why aren't they? Because those same corporations would simply up their prices. Micro-transactions are publishing companies looking to offset the increased costs of game development onto the customer in a manner with the least potential backlash.