Quote Originally Posted by Colt47 View Post
I got no problems with a F2P model if the money is actually being reinvested into the games development. As it stands I have zero knowledge where all this cash shop money is going to and I still want to know why I'm having to pay for extra bank space via the retainer system.
I think it has been stated numerous times by Yoshi or someone else that the funds created from the Mogstation basically fund the costs of running said Mogstation alone separately from the funds produced by subscription fees. The profits that they reap from the Mogstation are probably minuscule compared towards the profits reaped by people continuing paying their subscription fees on whatever billing cycle that the customer chooses. Since, in order to use said Mogstation at all, you still have to be subbed and playing the game with an active service account to begin with.

It's about the same way with their own SE storefront online that's not even connected to XIV directly which probably funds itself through online sales and whatnot.

I think your ideas are great, by the way, just that they probably don't or won't use the funds of the Mogstation to pay for the extra time and effort that's needed on the game designers and developers to work on more stuff. It may not be that large of an amount that would make it financially worth to pay people overtime.

It's hard to tell since no company would ever give out their fiscal reports openly towards the public. That's PR suicide and allowing the competition to gain an advantage.