This is just appalling

[HPDelron]

Nice to see the 140 likes that the OP got. I know that the people on the forum are only a small part of the playerbase but it seems that more people find this bad than good. You know what would be interesting? Official polls from SE about this topic and them posting the end results here on the forum. Just to see how the majority sees the cash shop and/or its prices.

This would never yield valid results. If you put up a poll asking if cash shop items should be cheaper and/or free everyone will say yes. Even someone who happily pays current cash shop prices and would happily pay even more than do now would say yes. It doesn't matter if someone is more than willing to pay $25 for a new dress, they'll still take it for $10 or free if they can.

The results of a poll asking people if they'd like to get things for cheaper or free is beyond obvious.

What really matters is sales. Prices will dip when the demand for the content dips.

[Kaiden019]

Do we really need to go over this again? Cash shop items are made for the cash shop. If the shop didn't exist neither would these items. Only the seasonal items were not made with the intent to sell them.

[SendohJin]

Do we really need to go over this again? Cash shop items are made for the cash shop. If the shop didn't exist neither would these items.

Odin's horse and the red/white magitek armor would not exist without the cash shop? the white magitek armor ridden by a boss in the first 8 man dungeon in the game, yeah okay, whatever you say ...

[Kuroneko_Jutah]

Odin's horse and the red/white magitek armor would not exist without the cash shop? the white magitek armor ridden by a boss in the first 8 man dungeon in the game, yeah okay, whatever you say ...

It'd still cost dev time to code as a player mount. Time they weren't otherwise willing to pay for without the existence of the Mog Shop team.

There is a budget entirely independent of the primary development team exclusively for making the Mog Station items. They have to vet each one internally over whether or not it's profitable.

That's not even going into the fact that a huge chunk of the more recent (and expensive) cash shop items are imported from the Korean/Chinese versions of the game in the first place, so the pricing structure has to stay the same or Korean/Chinese players will throw a shit fit just like you all are doing right now.

[Dustytome]

It'd still cost dev time to code as a player mount. Time they weren't otherwise willing to pay for without the existence of the Mog Shop team.

But it was already a player mount. They just did a color change to the skin unless there was some detailing I missed that makes the model, animations or something different? (Honest question I didn't look that closely at it)

[SendohJin]

It'd still cost dev time to code as a player mount. Time they weren't otherwise willing to pay for without the existence of the Mog Shop team.

oh yeah, it's not like they had a black one they could recolor or anything. please, if that takes massive dev time they need to go back to take coding lessons when you already have the framework and the color palette.

[Kuroneko_Jutah]

oh yeah, it's not like they had a black one they could recolor or anything. please, if that takes massive dev time they need to go back to take coding lessons when you already have the framework and the color palette.

Unless you work in graphic design or assets yourself stop talking out of your ass. Fucking armchair game devs.

[Kaiden019]

Yeah, because in programming structure any object can just be turned into a mount without any work what so ever right?

[Elkanah]

Only the seasonal items were not made with the intent to sell them.

This is one part of the mogstation cash shop I was disappointed in. When FanFest 2014 came around, I was super excited about the ingame items. They were items you had to obtain during FanFest, and was meant to be exclusive. Then I was advised about the same folks who didn't go and watched the live stream getting the same items similar to us who went to Fanfest. Okay, that's cool, I thought. Maybe not like being there, but still semi, I get it. A year or two later, it's now a cash shop item. Devs already mentioned in the past that the FF X gear will be cash shop available too. All past event items that were part of an event are now purchase-able via the mogstation. What's the point of exclusive events if ALL of it is gonna be mogstation ready?

Didn't get this last event? Don't worry! Wait next year and it'll be available for 20 bucks or less! It's a little ridiculous. I have to wonder how much all the content will cost for the Yoko event honestly lol. I'm generally curious. That was a LOT of items too.

[silverlunarfox]

Didn't get this last event? Don't worry! Wait next year and it'll be available for 20 bucks! It's a little ridiculous.

I think alot of new players don't always hesitate to buy into what they missed. I was ecstatic when they brought back the moogle suit finally, its the one fan fest i missed by buying my ps4 just a little too late XP