Problem with "Optional" Items in the Cash Shop

[vigioX-Sun]

I do understand why people complain about this things, I mean you:

Buy the game
Buy expansions
Pay subscription

Is a good investment but in top of that also a cash shop full of cosmetic/mounts/glam. With many updates an new items..not only that but items go up to 30.00 or so? (Correct me if I'm a wrong).
I am an adult an I'm not rich but neither poor, in almost 7 years playing the game I have never buy nothing from the cash shop, not even fantasias, an never will, is OK to be greedy but not excessive.
Is not SE foul.. they are just a business an they doing what they suppose to be doing...making money..
If someone is to be blame is the player base that keep buying..an yes prices will keep going up because why not? Same people are gonna keep paying for it.
This is just my personal opinion on how I see things.
ps: please someone post a meme of a very rich guy.

[Riardon]

This modern day issue with gaming has been discussed many times.
Companies exist for profit and if you want to be a successful company you need to find ways to milk the cow as much as you can without killing it.
Consumers are also to blame for this. Consumers have the half responsibility of what happens in the industry.
Companies experimented with that and people baited so now it's the new standard like it or not. We made it successful and we are responsible for that.
Pre-orders, cash shops and DLC's are a standard thing now. As long as people still fall over it it's gonna be everywhere. XIV is no exception.

[Zojha]

Consumers are also to blame for this. Consumers have the half responsibility of what happens in the industry.

In fairness, it's a lopsided battle: Consumers are usually far more disorganized than companies (much like employees), which is why their bargaining power and prowess tends to be fairly limited and things such as labor/trade unions become necessary. I don't think that kinda thing exists for consumers yet.

[Texa]

I like the cheap things on mogstation because I get a bank fine if I don't use my card enough times in a month and I can just buy some dye there if I need to up my uses a little.

Otherwise I don't really have an opinion on the stuff there. The new haori is nice, but the suikan from last year's little ladies day is more my taste and the old asuran hakama is structured more like an actual hakama. The Fuga attire seems like a watered down version of the Samurai artifact set to me overall. If someone wants to buy it more power to them I guess.

[AlexanderThorolund]

You don't stop to think why threads like this keep being created? It's blatantly obvious that many people are not happy with how the mogstation is being handled (priced mostly). If you have nothing of value to add to the thread why even bother posting?

To point out that stupid threads like this are amounting to spam.

[Enur]

Isnt it clear that most, if not all, of the revenue FFXIV generates gets shared among other SE projects? If one game is failing or doesnt live up to their expectations they can just put it a new overpriced dress. I saw this argument before but i believe that the Mogstation doesnt pay for anything FFXIV related directly. Supporting the game through mogstation is like donating money to apple. SE of course doesnt mind this and continues.

[Vhailor]

How long before they stop putting "optional" items in the game? Think about it.

I have. The dev team has. The marketing team probably has. All have concluded that an all-or-nothing system isn't as financially beneficial as a mixed system, which is what SE is now offering.

Seriously, there are several very good reasons to oppose the "sanctioned RMT" that is the cash shop, but this isn't one of them.