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

[Halivel]

Dear SE, I live in country with 300$ monthly payment which is at least 5-6x times less than in EU or NA, so every item in Mog and actually even subscription are very expensive for me and other players from here, please fix it. /not joke about salaries sadly/

Speaking seriously though , I agree that some items in Mog are probably overpriced. Hovewer, they are optional and do not affect your gameplay, so... /shrugs/ They do sales from time to time, you can always wait for it.

[kyomaZZ]

all of these wouldnt be a problem if the game would be f2p
but we have to buy the game and the expansions + have to pay every month to able to log in, greediness have no limits

[ForteNightshade]

all of these wouldnt be a problem if the game would be f2p
but we have to buy the game and the expansions + have to pay every month to able to log in, greediness have no limits

If this were a F2P MMO, you can more or less double every price on the mogstation. Look no further than Black Desert. Their outfits are 30-40$. And unlike FFXIV, Kakao Games purposes does not release new outfits beyond generic stuff to incentive purchases. So imagine all the generic 1-50 gear being all we have unless you shell out 30$ for a single outfit. Now you have a F2P MMO.

[AlliciaCapulet]

If this were a F2P MMO, you can more or less double every price on the mogstation. Look no further than Black Desert. Their outfits are 30-40$. And unlike FFXIV, Kakao Games purposes does not release new outfits beyond generic stuff to incentive purchases. So imagine all the generic 1-50 gear being all we have unless you shell out 30$ for a single outfit. Now you have a F2P MMO.

Well, comparing to worse is still no justification for a company being greedy. Like I said before, it's a question of point of view, but the actual system just make no sense to me. If it were a f2p, I would be OK with a cash shop and optionnal item, but it's not. I'd prefer them to increase a bit the subscription fees, or release less optional items and put them available to everyone, instead of putting them available only for people who can afford them.

what would you say if the things you want the most from mog station instead was from baldesion arsenal or ultimate fights

Any hard content become easy at some point when they are past raids, and I would be 100% for that. And it's also better showoff, if they are hard to get you can show the glamour telling "Hey I had skills to get it" instead of "Hey, I have more money to spend".

Also another things on optional/promotions items, SE seems to forget that North America is far from being USA only (USA is after all just 33% of the lands of North America), but their promotion for the NA server was made for the US Amazon. Yes, you still can buy on amazon.com instead of .ca, but it's not every sellers that will ship to Canada. In Europe, they make it for multiple country since there is lots of country there.

[Vidu]

Any hard content become easy at some point when they are past raids, and I would be 100% for that. And it's also better showoff, if they are hard to get you can show the glamour telling "Hey I had skills to get it" instead of "Hey, I have more money to spend".

Ranked PvP rewards would like a word... aswell as the hunt-achievement-tiger, the rewards that are locked behind PvP-achievments or the mentor-roulette-mount. A lot of content actually doesnt become easier with time, in some cases it becomes even more difficult because people arent intrested in it anymore so they stop running it alltogether (Diadem, anyone?) - and rewards for ranked feast are even more limited and locked behind limited time and limited amount.

[ForteNightshade]

Well, comparing to worse is still no justification for a company being greedy. Like I said before, it's a question of point of view, but the actual system just make no sense to me. If it were a f2p, I would be OK with a cash shop and optionnal item, but it's not. I'd prefer them to increase a bit the subscription fees, or release less optional items and put them available to everyone, instead of putting them available only for people who can afford them.

This isn't unique to FFXIV or MMO as a whole. Every single game nowadays has some form of micro-transactions. Our subscription fee covers being allowed access to the continuous updates FFXIV undergoes. If this were a F2P game, you simply wouldn't see the raids, trials and 24 mans provided. Furthermore, if you were to increase the fees, you've now forced everyone to pay more for stuff they may not care about. Plenty of people couldn't give a damn about Sleipnir or one of five Chinese dresses. While it would be nice if they made less, especially given how many items they seemed to throw on the Mogstation this expansion. It likely won't happen since it's very profitable.

what would you say if the things you want the most from mog station instead was from baldesion arsenal or ultimate fights

Funny thing is, they wouldn't necessarily lock them behind hard content. Just tedious stuff they know people wouldn't do. Want the Carbuncle mount? Run MSQ Roulette 1,000 times.

[HyoMinPark]

Any hard content become easy at some point when they are past raids, and I would be 100% for that. And it's also better showoff, if they are hard to get you can show the glamour telling "Hey I had skills to get it" instead of "Hey, I have more money to spend".

Not Ultimate. Coming 5.0, UCoB and UwU are still going to be synced to level 70 and item level synced (i345 for UCoB, i375 for UwU). There’s also been no indicator that BA will be easier to do come 5.0—we don’t know what they’re planning to do with it or Eureka yet: if they’ll allow some sort of unsync in there, or if it will stay the same.

All this being said, people would complain from here to Sunday if they locked entire outfits like those you find on the cash shop behind content like Ultimate. Let’s be real here: they’re never going to do that.

[Vidu]

All this being said, people would complain from here to Sunday if they locked entire outfits like those you find on the cash shop behind content like Ultimate. Let’s be real here: they’re never going to do that.

...considering how often we're already seeing threads just about dyeable raidgear being locked behind doing Savage, this sounds like a pretty accurate assumption.

[Mistyregions]

...considering how often we're already seeing threads just about dyeable raidgear being locked behind doing Savage, this sounds like a pretty accurate assumption.

Let them complain, it's our reward for our effort.