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

[Kolsykol]

It should be noted too that the irony is that people often end up spending more money on F2P games even than they do on games like FFXIV or just simple B2P games with no sub.
I'd rather have what we have here than have F2P where it's designed to make it mandatory to P2W if you want to stay relevant and where cosmetics are like 25+ euro ( or locked behind 100 euro pre-orders ) and a billion '' convenience '' stuff that is just stuff cut out of the game to make it more annoying and is sold back to you..
I don't think it's directly comparable, but I often see people justify the pricing in F2P games with '' it's optional ''.
As if the games aren't designed from the ground up to heavily nudge you into spending significantly more than you normally would.
Ultra greedy studios and publishers LOVE when people make that excuse, it's exactly the excuse they want people to make for it and to believe.
But the reality is that they intentionally design them to make people spend SIGNIFICANTLY more in the end and it's rarely in reality '' optional '' unless you want a shitty experience.

If you look at the market for more comparable games I'd say it's fairly standard in regards to pricing in FFXIV, often even a bit cheaper even.
I still think it's too much tho, I do think it's a bit ridiculous.
But I also think it's nowhere even remotely anywhere close to bad in the context of the industry currently and how much people actually spend on other games.
It's nowhere close to the level where I think it's a problem or where I feel bad about spending money in the store.
I think it's in sort of a middle-ground where yes they want to make money, but also they're not robbing you.
The greed isn't as in your face and super transparent as in quite a lot of other cases.

[Bad_Luck]

You’re right. $24 for mount? Hah, get real!

[Ryoutoshi]

I treat mogstation purchases like a donation box. I don't hand SE $22 for some outfit. I hand them 22$ because for going on 9 years I've gotten the best MMORPG I've ever played for a fair price and I'd like to thank them. The outfit is just a bonus. Or the emote. Or $40 chocobo carriage.

Do you enjoy your meal and not tip the server?

[LianaThorne]

Nope, have seen worse in other games. Imagine paying $20+ to *rent* an outfit for a week and $50+ to permanently buy it. Perfect World says hello.

I also am one who understands the process behind making clothing and mounts for video games. Depending on the complexity of the project, it can take anywhere from 30m to several hours to complete. $12 for potentially several hours of work isn't a lot of money.

[Kes13a]

I think you might confuse active players with the number they always put out there for PR. Which are the number of players in total.

I think they are also forgetting that FFxiv gets a budget from SE, not all the money they bring in to do with as they wish

[Kolsykol]

I think they are also forgetting that FFxiv gets a budget from SE, not all the money they bring in to do with as they wish

Which is also how it works with every other publisher too, I mean where do people think the money for Overwatch came from lol?

FFXIV is a big money maker for SE, so they're going to use it to fund other projects too.
I'd love if FFXIV's budget was just all of the money it made but alas it's not how it works.
Same in other industries too, movies make a studio money and then those resources are spread out to make more movies.

[Frizze]

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?

You havent been here long then. This comes up quite often - especially after a popular outfit/mount/etc gets added. Are you crazy? Yes. Are you crazy for not liking a price? Thats up to you to decide. Some people will drop $100 on nothing without blinking an eye, others feel the need to justify every dollar above the minimum needed to survive. I can tell you that ive never paid full price for anything on the mogstation, and until last summers anniversary sale i had never actually bought anything at all. I can also tell you that ive never really felt like i was missing out by not having bought stuff. Thats me.

[Zaniel]

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?

Yes I do, but on the flipside Yoshi-P isn't standing behind my computer chair with a shotgun pointed at my head while he forces me to enter my CC details into the mogstore. My wallet is sitting over there next to my car keys all safe-n-sound.

Some of it is wildly over-priced but whoaaaaaaaaaa I just don't buy that stuff. Hell, I only buy about 1/10th of the stuff that costs $2 let alone the $30 stuff.

EDIT: I do agree that mogstation purchases not being account wide is completely garbage greed/oversight though, in digital goods that sort of thing is just deliberately screwing customers when you don't have an excuse. I ain't buying 3 copies of some glamour.

[ameliaw]

I'm from Brazil and we don't have regional pricing, so they are expensive as fuck. A mount is 1/10 of the minimum wage LMAO
For you americans I honestly think that the price is ok.

[Crowzer]

Still way cheaper compared to some games.