This is just appalling

[Lunaxia]

I can already imagine the response this is going to get, but I'm going to do it anyway, because this is becoming a joke.

£11. £11 for two glamour items. Over £10 for two pieces of virtual clothing. £4 to have your character act like a Miqo'te and flail your arms around. It isn't even account wide. A standard sub to play the game with 40 characters is £8.99.

But that isn't even what I find the most ridiculous, it's the fact that we have an Far Eastern themed expansion coming out, with players understandably hyped and wanting to get into the spirit of the pack, and everything that has been released so far with any sort of "Asian" theme has been lobbed onto the Mog Station for ludicrous prices. I actually thought, naively, as I saw the pictures first, the Fuga (Fugah? Fungah!) set was a Gold Saucer prize or an event item. There isn't any reason it couldn't be, apart from SE's greed and player gullibility. You're already making plenty of money from the Matriarch set, the Eastern Dance, the Magpie and the Eastern Garb set - we couldn't have two glamour items to celebrate Stormblood coming out that didn't cost more than our sub?

I'm sure this will be met with the usual "SE is a business!!! what do you expect!!", "they're always going to do this so get over it" etc. etc., and you're perfectly right, SE is a business! As such, they respond to sales - and ploys that lead to poor sales don't get repeated. This doesn't cross the mind of the Balmung or the Idyllshire crowds, however, who'd buy the glamour sets if they cost £20 just to have the newest items to stand around and AFK in. And because of this, we're now at the point where we're being charged higher prices for half an outfit and a re-vamped existing emote. Congratulations, you've surely shown us grouchers!

[Rasylia]

Couldn't agree more.
Considering i bought Sub + Server Transfer this month, and will buy sub + addon next month, paying 14 € for an outfit is totally out of question. That's nearly half the price of SB!

[Feidam]

It's glamour items and emotes. Nothing critical. Just don't purchase it and move on.

[bounddreamer]

You vote with your money, I'll vote with mine. It is what it is.

[joannaluttrell]

Not to be rude (and for the record I don't plan to buy these items/emote), but what do you expect people to do? not buy things they want/can afford just because you or I think it is priced to highly?

[Transient_Shadow]

all these items are completely optimal. If you don't like it suck it up and don't buy it.

[Arutan]

I can buy 2 to 3 meal with the price of one of those (ugly imo) outfit. The more I watch the game going on, the more it feels like SE wants to drain all the money out of us. A premium shop on a sub MMO is already a shame itself, did they really have to make people pay scandalous prices too by puting things they know people want? Feels like they're considering themselve a bit too like "The great and powerful SE".

[Kaurie]

You vote with your money, I'll vote with mine. It is what it is.

Indeed, the appalling part is that people will pay for it =O

[Kaelah]

Some people will buy it, so they will keep doing it. From their perspective it is genius. Just business.

I've stopped caring. I used to be bummed about it, but now, I know that in future there will be other clothes I will glamour over these store ones anyway. So why waste the real money? I just don't bother. I wait for the free stuff that I like instead. Personally I always grow bored of glamours eventually and create new ones. Pointless to spend money on clothing for this reason.

[Kazrah]

I'd be willing to bet all my gil that slightly different versions of that outfit are going to wind up as either crafted items or quest rewards.