Online store prices are outrageously high!

[JamieRose]

$36 for a mount, $18 for a dress, $10 for barding..

They're already charging a monthly fee for this game on top of base price for the game and sales happen only slightly less often than planetary alignments.

Give us a break, Squeenix. Lower your prices to something reasonable.

[Draken]

As long as enough people are buying them, nothing will change.

[SenorPatty]

It's like y'all never got the talk about luxury and it's actually okay that you don't need to buy it or can't afford it.

Why not complain about retainers, you know, the only thing in that store that grants a certain level of necessity and/or advantage in the game.

[SigmaOZ]

@OP


Finally someone sees reason, I have always felt prices for optional items are too expensive for what they're worth.


Square Enix could make all items "account-wide" by default, even those already purchased, on top of that they could slash prices each year that passes, I'm sure they would sell more if they weren't so greedy.

[Kukajoo]

I heard the sub fee goes right into squares coffers and the online store is what supports FFXIV. I don't mind it, if I want something I'm happy to save up and support the game.

[Ilenya]

Finally someone sees reason, I have always felt prices for optional items are too expensive for what they're worth.

Finally? This sort of post pops up regularly.

Give us a break, Squeenix. Lower your prices to something reasonable.

Also, see sales. They do happen.

[MaraD_]

I heard the sub fee goes right into squares coffers and the online store is what supports FFXIV. I don't mind it, if I want something I'm happy to save up and support the game.

Pretty sure the interview said the reverse. Mogstation items dont actually help the game, only subs do.

Also, see sales. They do happen.

I actually think this IS the reason they overcharge.
The sales prices are closer to what they intend to sell the items for, but just in case ppl are desperate for the items early, they increased the price of the item. (When not on sale)

[ElciaDeiLinus]

They seem pretty reasonable to me. $38 for a mount still beats $100-200 for a mount in ESO (if that, since it's largely loot box rng you may pay even more). You're going to be paying that or more for outfits in most games.

Also, you're going to pay to reduce thousands of hours of grinding and bypass myriad massive problems that other games put in just to make you pay- like items that remove xp loss from death penalties, teleportation items, items to instant rez you, items to increase xp gain/item drops because the game is designed to give so little that even while paying for all of them you're just barely at the rate FFXIV has at standard.

That's really the big win here- FFXIV isn't designed around a cash shop, which makes it an oasis in the endless sands of MMOs that put more development time into their shop then the game itself.

If the cost of having a game with content updates, in game cosmetics, and actual development time is a small, unobtrusive cash shop with prices that are at worst industry standard, and without RNG creates- I'd much rather stick with a sub model and small cash shop then see the game go f2p and stop putting out content updates like basically every other MMO.

SWTOR comes to mind- oh sure, it's great that it's f2p, but they've put out about as much content since they went f2p a decade ago as FFXIV puts out in a single patch. GW2 takes about three times as long to put out new content, and barely has patch updates between xpacs. ESO puts out frequent small patch DLC, all at a cost, and is supported by absurdly priced RNG and housing items in the $100s. BDO puts out a new grind spot once a year with a chunk of story missions- but it's all a thinly veiled ruse to have you grind new things- requiring all those scrolls and xp boosts and the such (and even with it all you're still grinding forever to accomplish anything).

Ultimately- in those games you can feel the cash shop, the game doesn't work without it. In FFXIV- the cash shop is unnecessary, it doesn't chunk out parts of the game to sell to me, it doesn't create bad game design to sell me the solution- so I'm quite fine with it being as it is now.

[StriderShinryu]

Are they too pricey for items in a game we have to buy to play and then pay a subscription to keep playing? Absolutely. Are they going to go down any time soon? Absolutely not.

[ZattanaWen]

Honestly, I hated the prices at first too, but I rationalize it a few ways.

First, I've been playing this game for over two years, and compared to many others, I'm still a relative newbie. I've already spent hundreds of dollars simply playing the game. Adding on another $40 for a cool mount that I could ostensibly be using for another two years doesn't seem an excessive burden in that respect.

Second (and more specific to me), while I've been playing FFXIV, I haven't really been playing many other games. So I have saved a bunch of money on new games that I otherwise would have bought had I not been playing FFXIV.

And finally, we all waste dollars here and there on pointless crap we don't need from time to time. Most people have a personal indulgence (starbucks, smoking, drinking, eating out a lot, etc.) that takes some of their money away each week. No better way to justify spending $40 on a FFXIV mount than by pulling the money from this personal indulgence budget. Skip a few trips to starbucks. Drop a pack a week for a few weeks.

People scoff at the notion of paying that much for a digital item that you "don't really own", but we probably will get more use out of it than a lot of other things we spend our money on.