Will no longer purchase optional items in response to statue emote

[CaptainLagbeard]

Well, opinions aside, the statue has apparently sold out:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...o_buy_the_new/
Make of that what you will....

Well, whaling is a thing... There is the 80-20 rule, 80% of sales is from 20% people...
And I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of those statues end up on places like ebay...

[Ath192]

Well, opinions aside, the statue has apparently sold out:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...o_buy_the_new/
Make of that what you will....

There are players that would pay thousands of dollars for a limited edition emote. TBH there are people who will happily spend their life savings to have something others don’t in a virtual game. It is what it is. SE will gain negative PR from ripping off their customers if they keep doing this though.

I dislike the statues going up in price and the quality being…. Okay… at best. That being said I don’t plan on buying on ever but I do think the correct price for something like that would be in the vicinity of $150.00 USD.

[RailZack]

I am not very satisfied with the change in the Meister Quality figure's accompanying emote, from account-wide to single-character. This approach feels like a money grab.

[TheMightyMollusk]

SE is a corporation. Literally everything they do is a money grab.

[Cinnamonpop]

Late, and what I want to say real quick is that I knew the statue would get sold out (after all, that's inevitable with scalpers existing, and well, the fomo people experience is very real unfortunately) but I believe there is nothing truly to lose speaking out and speaking loud about your disapproval, which is what I hoped to do with this thread, and hoped others would as well.

Worst case scenario is nothing changes and we all move on. Best case, should enough people complain and perhaps even express the same sentiment as me of no longer buying anything optional, mayhaps Square Enix will listen on some level. Were the chances of the last part high? No. Might as well have been .1%. But do I think it's worth trying? Yes. Nothing ventured, nothing gained and all that. Lots to potentially gain with very little to lose.

[Doki]

I preordered the day the statue showed up, in the first hour the page went live. My order is now marked as declined for some reason (loads of credit available on my card) and the statue is marked as out of stock. The SE store has long been a complete mess IMHO. No cool statue & emote for me I guess ... unless I want to pay $1k to some scalper...

[Stormpeaks]

I preordered the day the statue showed up, in the first hour the page went live. My order is now marked as declined for some reason (loads of credit available on my card) and the statue is marked as out of stock. The SE store has long been a complete mess IMHO. No cool statue & emote for me I guess ... unless I want to pay $1k to some scalper...

If you are willing to pay 1k for a mediocre emote and a scuffed statue, more power to you eh ?

[CaptainLagbeard]

The Scalpers I do somewhat understand why they do what they do... Not that I think it's a good thing, but without a doubt there will be cases where people bought the statue purely for the emote, they'll take it and then try to sell the statue off to someone without the code.

[Commander_Justitia]

You guys are always quick to demand exclusivity to go away for PvP ranked rewards, but once it is a statue it doesn't even cross your mind anymore.

There are even minions from 2.x merchandise that aren't on mogstation yet either. Or mounts that never got a promotion campaign in Europe.

Why not demand that after 3-5 years or something they should put the emote in the shop for 30$. SE is a company, they need to make profit. And the longer you defend them, the more greedy they can get - any company will do it like that.

[CaptainLagbeard]

You guys are always quick to demand exclusivity to go away for PvP ranked rewards, but once it is a statue it doesn't even cross your mind anymore.

There are even minions from 2.x merchandise that aren't on mogstation yet either. Or mounts that never got a promotion campaign in Europe.

Why not demand that after 3-5 years or something they should put the emote in the shop for 30$. SE is a company, they need to make profit. And the longer you defend them, the more greedy they can get - any company will do it like that.

Definitely they could drop the exclusivity on things... I'd be fine if they were a timed exclusive, but things being just completely unobtainable is stupid.