Mogstation taking another step to the darkside

[SuperZay]

^ It's not a free-to-play game. We are already paying for 'DLC stuff', it's part of subscription fees. Defending extra charges on top of this while we are getting less stuff like dungeons is a pure greed.

[linay]

^ It's not a free-to-play game. We are already paying for 'DLC stuff', it's part of subscription fees. Defending extra charges on top of this while we are getting less stuff like dungeons is a pure greed.

Subscription fees are for server access. People who don't subscribe for an entire expansion don't get less content outside of timed events than those who do subscribe for the entire expansion.

A store mount also has nothing to do with what you get in an expansion. You don't have to get it during a particular expansion and you don't even have to purchase any expansion.

[kaynide]

^ It's not a free-to-play game. We are already paying for 'DLC stuff', it's part of subscription fees. Defending extra charges on top of this while we are getting less stuff like dungeons is a pure greed.

You are not paying for DLC stuff. You are paying for exactly what they've given you on the box. You are not entitled to anything more than they want to give you and/or is promised you.

The money spent in DLC shop pays to make more DLC stuff. No DLC shop, no DLC is made.

[SuperZay]

The money spent in DLC shop pays to make more DLC stuff. No DLC shop, no DLC is made.

Wrong, all money goes back to SE. Japanese corporations allocate fixed budgets once a year, the FFXIV crew cannot just take whatever money they want. And no amount of mogshop purchases or sub numbers will change that budget till next yearly revision. SE then can distribute these extra money on paying stock dividends to shareholders, but they don't go back into a game directly.

[kaynide]

Wrong, all money goes back to SE. Japanese corporations allocate fixed budgets once a year, the FFXIV crew cannot just take whatever money they want. And no amount of mogshop purchases or sub numbers will change that budget till next yearly revision. SE then can distribute these extra money on paying stock dividends to shareholders, but they don't go back into a game directly.

I mean, you can believe that if you want. I'm not in the "in" in SE's budget, and for all I know their original business model might have changed on how they're moving their money from what we were told looong ago.

At the end of the day a specific team is doing MogStation work. If nothing sells on it, they obviously wouldn't waste more time on it. It's all about investment of time to get a certain amount of returns to pay for future investment (and profits).

I work for a Japanese corporation. We do not allocate a fixed budget "once per year" because, obviously, stuff happens. A second major corporation that I do contractor work for does quarterly budgets because (again) the market changes and so must the business targets.