This is just appalling

[NolLacnala]

Blade & Soul outfits sell for $15

Blade and Soul is probably the worst game you could use to defend cash shops, as currency exchange allows you to buy anything from the cash shop using in-game gold (Including character slots and their version of Fantasia)

Also note that the normal price point for costumes is $12, which sometimes dips to $8 when they go on sale. $15 is the outlier and normally includes other items or hair.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Hmm but I am wondering if that is altogether the 100% truth though....He IS the producer and director of the game...to not have any influence or power over the cash shop of that game seems a bit suspicious.

Not that it definitely is a fib or anything...just you can't always believe every thing people say especially when it comes to businesses...they may fib or little white lie to keep business practices secret. (Source: working for companies irl and hearing these "little white lies" on a daily basis when it comes to keeping customers happy or reassured.)

I imagine Yoshida advises what players have interest in, such as the Krile outfit, but is otherwise wholly separated from the pricing aspect. Most DLC is handled by either a portion of the development team or a subsidiary. I wouldn't be surprised if MMO cash shops function similarly.

Blade and Soul is probably the worst game you could use to defend cash shops, as currency exchange allows you to buy anything from the cash shop using in-game gold (Including character slots and their version of Fantasia)

Also note that the normal price point for costumes is $12, which sometimes dips to $8 when they go on sale. $15 is the outlier and normally includes other items or hair.

So does WoW yet that doesn't stop people vilifying it. Blade & Soul adds substantially more to their cash shop and promotes a very heavy grind style of gameplay whereas FFXIV has only a handful of truly unique items. Mogstation sales are similar. They've had Sleipnir on sale for 50% annually.

[Naunet]

Blade & Soul adds substantially more to their cash shop and promotes a very heavy grind style of gameplay whereas FFXIV has only a handful of truly unique items.

BnS is free-to-play.

The fact of the matter is that the prices are absurd for what you get in FFXIV. Pretty much every other AAA MMO offers better cash shop deals - either through cheaper prices, being account-wide, the ability to earn cash shop currency from playing the game, or a combination of all three.

I don't know why people are using f2p or b2p games as comparison, b2p games don't charge you monthly so they need the cash shop to make up for that lack of mandatory subscription, f2p games don't even ask you to buy games or expansions on top of lack of mandatory subscription.

The cash shop is here to stay, but it's rather abusive they are using f2p prices when that's not their business model.

They're not even using f2p prices, because many f2p games have better deals than what we get here.

What i would wish they did was adopt the Gw2 cash shop system where you with ingame currency can buy gems to buy items from the cashop. This would on one hand allow all items to be earned ingame and fix inflation as the rich gil hoarders get something to spend their fortune one.

I would prefer a system like WildStar's Omnibits, which leaves us to spend our Gil on actual in-game things. Omnibits are a currency you earn whenever you do things that would grant XP (works at level cap, as well).