This is just appalling

[Belhi]

Basically what I understand from your posts is that you are saying FFXIV is solely driven by profit (they won't create anything that they can't make a buck from). If that's true, then that's pretty sad from a consumer point of view, knowing that the company doesn't care about me as a customer at all, only my wallet.

As others have stated, why can't items like this be tied to in-game content? Why must they double-dip for profits from it?

Do you think game developers are charities? Of course they driven by a profit. Any publicly traded company is. That doesn't mean they won't make investments for the sake of their customers or spend money on things for their customers which on their own will not turn a profit but in a sense it is still related to profit since such actions sure up customer satisfaction. Good customers care for their companies but its a two way transaction. They offer a service or product and they are paid as a result. They have done that and frankly make a lot of effort to satisfy customers. The server upgrades were a major investment to satisfy customer desires for the quality of the service.

And where are you getting the idea they are double dipping?

Let me say it again. Non-seasonal cash shop items are NOT made with the budget allocated to the game due to its sub revenue. The reason they aren't tied to in-game content is because they are made with funds allocated outside the budget that SE uses to develop in game content. If they weren't in the cash shop, THEY WOULD NOT BE CREATED IN THE FIRST PLACE. The Fuga Attire wouldn't have even been developed in the first place. Your basically asking them to give away more than you paid for, for free and complaining that they aren't.

Now there is an argument that seasonal items are paid for by the sub fee but technically they were paid for by the people playing at the time the items WERE free in game so anyone not subbed at the time didn't in fact pay for it.