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

[Plumfairy]

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!!!

[Duskane]

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[Tremara]

You get what you're paying for ... if you want more you have to pay more.

[Gwenorai]

No fat cat for you~

[Senn]

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

[Bearded]

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.

[Vidu]

Its pure cosmetics though...

I can assure you a lot of people arent happy with this, but here are a few answers:
1) Because they can - because people do pay that amount of money
2) Because they dont sell gamebreaking stuff - you can play the game perfectly fine without a fat cat mount or a specific emote
3) Because the mogstation-money is apparently the only money FFXIV makes that goes directly back into the game - our sub-money is used to fund other SE-projects aswell.
4) Everything that is in the mogstation is specifically being made for the mogstation. Nothing gets taken out of the game - we wouldnt have gotten something like the fat cat etc. if it wasnt for the mogstation in the first place.

You also dont need to feel bad for people who choose to spend their money on something they enjoy - may that be a mount, a box of expensive chocolates or anything else luxurious. Its their free choice to do with their money as they please and use it to buy something that gives them joy. Seeing how certain well requested mounts are locked behind achievements, some people might actually prefer it to just being able to spend a few dollars - instead of having to hunt down 2000 S-ranks.

If those mounts arent worththe money to you: dont buy them and stick with the things you get within the game.

[HyoMinPark]

I find this a little bit ironic, since it appears that you bought a job jump potion for SCH based on the gear your SCH is wearing (full i260 Shire with the i245 Fillibuster ring). Regular price for those is $25 USD for a single character, where as the mounts you have listed (Fatter Cat) are $24 USD and account-wide, meaning every character you ever make will get it.

That said, if you don’t want to pay the full price, the account-wide mounts eventually go on sale. As do things like the $18 USD Chinese/Korean outfits. Usually after they’ve been on the store for about a year or so.


The only thing I will really give you are the emotes. I personally find them overpriced for how lackluster the most recent ones are. But I just don’t buy them. And I’d personally like the Chinese/Korean exclusives to be account-wide, but from what I’ve heard, they cost less here than they did in their respective cash shops so. /shrug

If I think something is overpriced, I just don’t buy it.

[Drayce1]

Just mow more lawns sport.

[MariaArvana]

You'd be surprised the actual costs it takes to hire good 3D modelers and pay them for their time, it's hardly "little cost to make that one mount."

Like all companies, they figure out the costs of R&Ding stuff, price it accordingly based on analytics & statistics and then rake in the money. Based on how I saw everyone and their grandma having a fat cat when they first came out (Almost every mount sees giant swaths of players purchasing them) I think they've found their target price vs potential buyers to maximize their profit.

At the end of the day, people have very different ideas of whats a good price and whats not. That fat cast cost me like maybe 2-3 days worth of coffee + breakfast, which was pretty easy to skip breakfast to put that money towards a highly adorable mount instead. Vote with your wallet; yet the $24.99 price point has already shown giant success if they make the mount appealing enough, so at the end of the day it's up to you to decide if its worth it or not.