Over-priced Microtransactions!!! PLEASE FIX THIS!!!

[Kaedan]

Compared to other F2P MMOs, FF14's microtransation shop is HELLA cheap. Even taking the monthly sub into account.

[Crystal_Raven]

What they really need to fix are their trash-tier servers that disconnect every couple of hours.

I mean ffs you'd think this would be easy.

[Mavrias]

where are you getting the expansion for sub $40 thats what i wanna know

[Dualblade]

You guys, you know this is a troll thread, right?

Some people are very...passionate? about cash shops, usually against them. So not sure if this is.

[Uriel_Kross]

[QUOTE=Plumfairy;5034303]Can someone please explain to me why added content is so sickeningly expensive? It is completely despicable how much they are charging for say, 1 mount, or 1 emote. The fat cat mount, for example, is $24.00! It is just a single mount and yet it costs more than an expansion for the game. The expansion includes all kinds of shit, and is somehow cheaper than this one object in the game.

Am..I missing something because my expansion cost $40 USD....ya'll really getting it for less than Mog Station Items..

[shaiel]

You should stop and take a look at the cash shop in other MMOs.
FFXIV cash shop is there but it's not predatory at all, and you can absolutely vote with your wallet. If you stop and look at the other cash shops, they're actually in the game as well, as you log on you even get advertisements depending on the MMO. GW2, WoW, ESO, BDO all have the cash shop right there when you log in. And the prices are same or worse. WoW has similar price mounts. GW2 has fairly ok prices but you can buy the first round of legendary weapons by trading in gems for in game currency. BDO is pay2convenience to the point that it's p2w for gearing up and doing pvp. ESO, one of FFXIV's direct competitors, keeps advertising their new season of lootboxes and skyshards (they give skill points) in their store. A giant login banner as you login, exclamation points all over the menu in the UI for the store and gambling boxes, and when you log out there's a pop-up like a freemium game. In FFXIV you have to go outside the game, open up a web browser of your own volition, and go find the tab called optional items. Lol. There's no RNG with what you buy, and the more expensive mounts are $24, which are account wide. I've heard of people spending thousands on crates in ESO to get special radiant apex bullshit mounts. And they even have extra gem currency which you only get for gambling, and getting dupes. Oh and they have macrotransactions on the store where you buy limited time digital houses ($150-200 each, not buyable with in game money for a lot of mansions) and have to buy music boxes. And you still have to buy DLCs such as 2 dungeons only or expansion which is one new zone, 1 new class and 1 trial only. That's it. If you sub you get some ESO bucks but you still have to buy expansions and you lose DLCs if you unsub. And they market eso+ subscriber only discounts so they can get more money out of subs with limited time sales as if they're going to run out of pixels. They even did shady stuff like change stats for racials and then put the race change tokens on sale after the twitch dev stream. The community complained is the only reason they gave away race change tokens for free later.

[Avidria]

Can someone please explain to me why added content is so sickeningly expensive? It is completely despicable how much they are charging for say, 1 mount, or 1 emote. The fat cat mount, for example, is $24.00! It is just a single mount and yet it costs more than an expansion for the game. The expansion includes all kinds of shit, and is somehow cheaper than this one object in the game. Why? We pay $15.00 per month for them to put in additional content and improve the game. Then, somehow, we make another payment for that additional content(expansions) WE ALREADY PAID FOR THROUGH MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS, and now we have the tiniest fraction of additional content costing literally 10,000 times what it is actually worth. Can someone please tell them how absurd it is. Honestly if you do the math, the company would make just as much money charging $5.00 for the mount, if not MORE. Most people know when they're getting ripped off, and I feel bad for people who actually spent money on these things. It makes me sick. I am ill over the thought of how little cost it was to square enix to make that one mount, and how much profit they would make on it just selling it at $5.00 (WHICH IS STILL TOO MUCH). So again I ask, why $24.00?????? And I mean think about it. If 10% of the subscribers buy this stupid fat cat mount, and %90 of them don't because it's too much, then what if you sold it for $5.00 and now %40 of subscribers are willing to buy it. It's the SAME amount of profit. It makes NO SENSE TO ME! Unless people are actually that gullible as to be willing to pay that outrageous sum of money for one singular skin deep no real world value item??? I CAN NOT BE THE ONLY ONE WHO SEES THIS AS APPALLING!!!

The mog station is like, standard to cheap compared to the microtransactions I've seen in pretty much every mmo I've ever played. Mounts in WoW are also ~$25 and have been for years.

I mean, I'm very much against actual game-impacting cash shop stuff (like... high level armor with good stats or something)... but these are cosmetics.

All I want for SE to do is make certain mogstation items account wide. Like hair, mounts, outfits, and emotes.

This I absolutely agree with. If I'm paying real cash for them, all of my characters should get them. I'm glad the fat cat at least is account wide. Else I wouldn't have looked at it twice.

[SigmaOZ]

@OP

It really is a rip-off and if you want to be the smart player never fall for their greedy business, FFXIV just serves (probably) as fodder for SE to sustain all of their other projects while this game sees very little improvement despite the consistent cash it makes month after month...

Optional items are NOT worth the money required to buy them but for some strange reason lots of players justify SE by saying it's cheaper than other MMOs out there...

Sadly for us (players) SE just keeps getting more avaricious by giving less value for the money spent, the Black Fat Chocobo being a great example, it is account-wide in Japan but single-character in North America!...

[SturmChurro]

It's not like you need to use any of the items from the Mog Station. Most are simple vanity items and some are convenience. None are essential.

The problem is these people think their sub entitles them to everything the game offers, optional, cosmetic - or not. There can be an argument for pricing (which is high, but not far from the norm), and whether there should or should not be a cash shop in a sub-based MMO, but the thing is, these items probably would never be implemented in the first place if there wasn't one.

I do not agree that the pricing is a" rip-off", again, optional cosmetic content, but if you do - here's the solution don't buy it then!

[JackHatchet]

I feel like the mogstation is greedy, because they originally released outfits for like 8 and 10 bucks. And then Minfilla was the first 'special' outfit worthy of 15 dollars. Then they randomly price hiked things to 18 bucks! And now every new outfit is 18 bucks. It's like they were testing the water to see how much they can milk people. If they weren't greedy--then every new outfit would be 10-15 bucks.

Cosmetic only? Not quite! Two-seater mounts provide a unique advantage over other people. So does that Motorcycle that'll give faster mount speed in SB. (Though the introduction of the 4 seater car kinda invalidates the two-seater mount argument, lol. So good on them!). It used to be you couldn't get a two-seater unless you paid money or you had a friend recruit you and pay for a sub. Either way--someone had to pay!

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Though for all the crazy insane prices. I do have to say that fantasias are reasonable at 10 bucks compared to WoW's 25/30. So there's that. IT's not all doom and gloom!

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Personally, my biggest outrage is that all items are character limited besides some mounts. It should all be account wide.