Does anyone else find a lot of the stuff on the mog station extremely expensive?

[NekoMataMata]

I need to ask because I never see anyone really talking about it.

Am I crazy for thinking 12 usd up to 18 usd for one outfit for a single character is just a bit too much? Is there something I'm missing?

[FoxyAreku]

It is too much, but if people didn't buy it at that price it wouldn't stick.

Much like how currency in mobile games is overpriced. People still buy it.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

XIV is a cheap hobby. Yes, this is cheap.

I have no mogstation mounts, but a few outfits. Its cheaper than any other hobby I have.

My subscription is actually cheaper than it was when i started due to inflation.

[Syrri]

Not really, I just get my mum to pay for it with her credit card.

[CaptainCoral]

Well it seems a little dumb that every emote isn't account bound.. that rlly should be for ppl but honestly seems "okay" priced but I don't know if id ever spend more than 30 a month on it

[SturmChurro]

Not really. The pricing is pretty standard for most MMOs. For that matter, I appreciate just being able to buy an outfit and be done with it, and also not have to worry about when it gets rotated out of the store for fomo. Simply don't buy it if it's too cost prohibitive.

As for being character bound, I know some people like alts, but this game kind of discourages alts in many aspects. So that's not surprising, for that matter, a lot of games have character bound items such as this, with similar pricing: again standard.

[Krotoan]

Nope.
I pay about the same for a meal or brief experience for entertainment.

In relevance I get far more use out of a mount/glamour/emote than I do out of say, a shot of ritzy vodka on the weekend.

[RobynDaBank]

I think emotes are a bit too expensive.

[Tsukino]

Yes, it's ludicrously expensive. People rake non-MMOs over the coals for selling outfits for a fraction of these prices, or $6-8 for a whole character in a fighting game, etc. and those don't also have monthly subscription fees everyone is already paying. Other MMOs and gacha games that do have similarly priced outfits are "free to play." For the price of a mount you could buy multiple other video games as long as they're not brand new.

The reason you don't see people talking about it specifically is that people tend to be more focused on the argument of their existence than their pricing. People who are fine with them are fine with them at their current prices, and people who are not fine with them take issue with there being paid items in a subscription at all.

[Ranaku]

The big question is, why are subscription fees staying the same since launch of the game and since the dawn of MMOs? I mean there is inflation and higher cost for marketing and employees and all that since MMOs started but it is still only 12.99 most of the time.

So why is that...? Yes cause stuff like the cashshop exist. It's a nice way to allow "poor" people to also enjoy the game at low sub costs and gives players who pump the money for them into the company a neat reward in return.

Always remember, your sub fee isn't covering anything but the bare bare necessities. If SE doubles the sub fee and THEN still keeps the cash shop the same you can complain. But at this moment a huge part of the playerbase is only able to play this game cause the cashshop exists. MMOs don't make huge profits compared to other games, MMOs are costly to maintain and to think that all that has to be covered by a sub fee that never is actually changed despite any higher production costs or inflation is just insane on your part.

Also play BDO for a bit where outfits cost 50 bucks and almost all dyes are bound to the cashshop if you don't want to play for years to get the dye you actually need.