$35, really SE?

[Vespar]

That happens quite a lot with those boots, certain positions just turn them into banana feet lol

hahahha Banana Feet! I love it <3

[Shougun]

SE gets to allocate where funding is spent, what teams are created, who does what and where their focus lies.

Cash shop items may be worked on by a separate team, but that still falls back to SE intentionally choosing to put the focus on the cash shop. They very well could have made a team that focused on creating super duper awesome in-game content that rewarded some of those very same items. Who's to say that if they didn't focus so much on the cash shop items that we wouldn't see some of that trickle down into the game? I don't think any of us here are privy to the inner workings of SE, so who really knows.

Generally speaking though, I get it. Micro transactions are a thing, and they're here to stay. I've bought plenty of things from the mogstation myself. Can't say I'm proud, but I'm extremely weak when it comes to fluff. However, that doesn't mean that I'm happy with the way they've implemented their cash shop. It's far too heavy-handed for my liking.

Combine that with getting less content in game as of late, more restrictions on how things are implemented, on top of the issues the game has already had..it feels a bit insulting to see the cash shop still chugging along at a healthy clip while the game is suffering in other places.

So here's where we come full circle with 'but the cash shop is handled by a different team!'. That's fantastic, sure. But perhaps they should put a bit more effort into the other teams who are designing game content, working on fixing bugs, responsible for adding limited races, etc...

I would also add to your rebuttal that while they don't do it often at all they literally have taken items from the game and added them into the cash shop (without offering them via seasonals or whatever first). Person you quoted saying they haven't (unless they meant singular only, such item being just this one, though I read it in a general sense).

Exhibit Sleipnir, or the ward armor, or the main character armors. Now of course for some of the armor you might say but it wasn't in X size for X race, so aye to that- true BUT it was in the game for at least some of our races.

Similarly the chocobo carriage is clearly the main story intro carriage minus some bits and bobs, and another birb, so it doesn't take as much character data to display.

For the armors, for the carriage, they clearly did some work to modify it, but to say there wasn't something original in the game taken out, that it's never happen, well.. it sounds a little disingenuous. Perhaps some leeway on the carriage since they couldn't give it to us as it was, but I mean Krille's outfit could have been 100% ported to normal Lala players. Sleipnir of course being another example.

Which isn't me trying to bash SE, but I also don't think we need to praise something that isn't quite true either lol. This was a design in the game, then modified a bit. It's not like the main dev team was entirely hands off on items like that, like this one either. SE has taken things from the game, maybe given them a bit of a polish, and then sold it on the mog shop.

Still not end of the world or anything, I know I'm walking the fence here XD- but just wanted to be like 'no... this is clearly from the starting cutscene, then simplified, and in a general sense there are clearly a few items that (npc armors), and one in particular that is just 100% 'yoink''.

Might argue it was unlikely for the main team to spend time to simplify the carriage, and maybe for somethings that's totally true, but I would think it's way too confident to be like the main team couldn't or wouldn't have done it if given time and player desire (especially since they've already done some of the work in some cases, like this one, or that whoever made the mog shop one didn't use the currently existing concept as reference (or even potentially the literal the model).

For those that it has been ages since seeing the starting cutscene (which is clearly more cluttered, which is why Yoshida said it took too much data- and our version is simpler):



.. again... lol.. Not condemning as much as walking back 'never this/can't that' sort of stuff.

[Lium]

Are we now fighting over avatars?

I came back to post this because I'm so down for that fight.

[Arngrim_Greyashe]

I came back to post this because I'm so down for that fight.

I'm generic buzz headed Highlander. Fight me! Lol

[Gula]

I'm generic buzz headed Highlander. Fight me! Lol

I quite like my RBF and wouldn't change it for the world.

[Lium]

I'm generic buzz headed Highlander. Fight me! Lol

Well, I can't fight a fellow Highlander because I am one. I'll fight any other race though.

Wait, that came out wrong.

[Arngrim_Greyashe]

I quite like my RBF and wouldn't change it for the world.

RBF? I can't say I know what that is at the moment, but I'm at work so my mind is all over the place.

Well, I can't fight a fellow Highlander because I am one. I'll fight any other race though.

Wait, that came out wrong.

Big oof! But that's fair. Highlanders are awesome.

[VictorTheed]

That's a really cool mount and I want it, but $35.99, to much money to pay for one single item.

I enjoy the cash shop, excited when new stuff appears but I can't justify paying that much for one single item, especially after I paid 30 dollars on the PSN yesterday for FF Crystal Chronicals remastered.

If it goes in sale for about 24 dollars on the future then I'll just get it then.

[Vahlnir]

Full size image here: https://i.imgur.com/5sJj7fe.jpg

Submitted an in-game bug for this one. its so weird XD

I don't think they're supposed to bend that way.

[kaynide]

As a player pretty much in from day 1, I have never purchased anything from the cash shop in FFXIV.

However, this is the first time I’ve been seriously tempted to buy from Mogstation. If it had been 20$ I would have pulled the trigger. As is, I’ll wait for a Xmas sale. This is not to say I am stingy...

I have purchased many things from GuildWars2 simply because I could use in game currency to convert to their version of Crysta. The genius of their system is that my in game currency would only get me say, $5 towards my purchase, with real cash being used for the rest (typical items were like 7-10 bucks). Grand total I have probably bought in the realm of $100 total in stuff from GW2.

The thing is also that GW2 cash shop offers a lot of QoL items..not pay to win, that
FFXIV just..doesn’t. As an example, a item to access their equivalent of retainer storage anywhere anytime.

I don’t want to be able to buy gil with cash, but I would like to be able to buy crysta with gil. Would make a huge difference!