Another 500$ emotes, just what we needed

[maximesan514]

Thanks square enix for releasing another unobtainable 500$ emote. We appreciate you milking your playerbase to the bone, as usual !!!!!!

[Stormpeaks]

maybe if this community had a little bit of self control they wouldnt sell an emote for that price ?

[Avoidy]

maybe if this community had a little bit of self control they wouldnt sell an emote for that price ?

In a world full of gamers with common sense, sure. However, this is the XIV community we're talking about here. Nothing we do on an individual level matters when the community's full of people who will buy anything SE churns out no matter how stupid, worthless, and overpriced it is.

Just don’t buy it. No one is forcing you.

That's the best part. They sold out so fast (within minutes), that OP couldn't buy it even if he wanted to. People are scalping the crap out of these codes in a few months. Please look forward to it!

I hope more threads about this gets made. Just drown the front page in complaints about this crap. It's well earned. I wish I could run a live service game on a subscription model, put out 3 meaningful updates a year, and then nickel and dime people in a cash shop that would make f2p korean mmos blush. Can you imagine? It's wild that XIV doesn't get more funding. It's basically a cash cow.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

In a world full of gamers with common sense, sure. However, this is the XIV community we're talking about here. Nothing we do on an individual level matters when the community's full of people who will buy anything SE churns out no matter how stupid, worthless, and overpriced it is.



That's the best part. They sold out so fast (within minutes), that OP couldn't buy it even if he wanted to. People are scalping the crap out of these codes in a few months. Please look forward to it!

I hope more threads about this gets made. Just drown the front page in complaints about this crap. It's well earned. I wish I could run a live service game on a subscription model, put out 3 meaningful updates a year, and then nickel and dime people in a cash shop that would make f2p korean mmos blush. Can you imagine? It's wild that XIV doesn't get more funding. It's basically a cash cow.

Implying it's just the xiv community that does this is disingenuous. You can say that about anything. Sports fans buying tickets at exorbitant prices, people buying shoes at crazy prices.

Welcome to free market capitalism.

[Avoidy]

Implying it's just the xiv community that does this is disingenuous. You can say that about anything. Sports fans buying tickets at exorbitant prices, people buying shoes at crazy prices.

Welcome to free market capitalism.

Yeah this is true in a lot of areas in life. But we're in the XIV forums, talking about XIV's buying habits, so I'm going to be talking about XIV today.
It's funny, because I can 100% be hella disingenuous when I want to be, but this isn't an area where I was trying to go that route. I'm legit just saying, in other areas of consumer spending, being a conscientious consumer can sometimes work. But in certain industries (gaming in general, let's be real) it's just a lost cause. XIV is one of them.

On the other hand, this is a tempting opportunity for me to use the "facepalm" emote that I just happen to have on one of my hotbars.

Same tbh. I actually got a look at that emote the other day and it's extra obnoxious. Legit reminds me of the over the top gaudy stuff I'd see in the old Korean MMOs I used to play. "Look at me!! I spent a stupid amount of moneeeey!!!" dumb as hell tbh.

[Stormpeaks]

In a world full of gamers with common sense, sure. However, this is the XIV community we're talking about here. Nothing we do on an individual level matters when the community's full of people who will buy anything SE churns out no matter how stupid, worthless, and overpriced it is.



That's the best part. They sold out so fast (within minutes), that OP couldn't buy it even if he wanted to. People are scalping the crap out of these codes in a few months. Please look forward to it!

I hope more threads about this gets made. Just drown the front page in complaints about this crap. It's well earned. I wish I could run a live service game on a subscription model, put out 3 meaningful updates a year, and then nickel and dime people in a cash shop that would make f2p korean mmos blush. Can you imagine? It's wild that XIV doesn't get more funding. It's basically a cash cow.

Oh I agree with you lmao, I've always said it, they could sell a water bottle with a G'raha Tia image on it and sell it for hundrends and still manage to sell it even tho it'd be tap water in it

anything this company sells goes no matter the price, it's actually pretty pathetic how people have absolutely 0 self control in this game, and yes "it's their money" but that doesnt mean i cant criticize their choices.

Implying it's just the xiv community that does this is disingenuous. You can say that about anything. Sports fans buying tickets at exorbitant prices, people buying shoes at crazy prices.

Welcome to free market capitalism.

FFXIV and its community is easily one of the worst at that tbh, honestly.

[Toutatis]

I hope more threads about this gets made. Just drown the front page in complaints about this crap. It's well earned. I wish I could run a live service game on a subscription model, put out 3 meaningful updates a year, and then nickel and dime people in a cash shop that would make f2p korean mmos blush. Can you imagine? It's wild that XIV doesn't get more funding. It's basically a cash cow.

They could sell it for $1k for all I care. It’s a non essential and even useless item that doesn’t affect gameplay and that can’t be resold once the code is used.

If people are stupid enough to buy it that’s on them. If it doesn’t affect their budget, they are indulging as they would with other things. Their choice. If someone can’t afford it but still buys it, they need to learn to manage their money and show self restraint. This is no different to some show tickets, designer stuff made with cheap materials and logos slapped over them (there’s a lot of that today…several have developed a mass market and masses buy overpriced items just for the name and no longer for quality or make), etc.

People just need to learn that they can’t have everything in life and live with it.

[Avoidy]

They could sell it for $1k for all I care. It’s a non essential and even useless item that doesn’t affect gameplay and that can’t resell once the code is used.

If people are stupid enough to buy it that’s on them. If it doesn’t affect their budget, they are indulging as they would with other things. Their choice. If someone can’t afford it but still buys it, they need to learn to manage their money and show self restraint. This is no different to some show tickets, designer stuff made with cheap materials and logos slapped over them (there’s a lot of that today…several have developed a mass market and masses buy overpriced items just for the name and no longer for quality), etc.

People just need to learn that they can’t have everything in life and live with it.

It's just the principle of the matter. A game that's buy to play + subscription shouldn't have any content locked behind a paywall imo, especially not one so steep. But if I'm being real, it's not surprising. This is where we are now. Because for years and years and years, long before XIV was even a concept, people saw this writing on the wall and bought into it anyway.
Idk why I even reply to these threads, like none of it matters anyway. It's just depressing that this is where we are now. You can basically triple dip on your monetization setup and then have a giga-whale option and it still sells out in minutes. I hate the modern gaming industry.

[Raven2014]

It's just the principle of the matter. A game that's buy to play + subscription shouldn't have any content locked behind a paywall imo, especially not one so steep.

Which is a very flawed principle because it doesn't make sense. And this applies to everything, not just a subbed-mmo. People use the same argument everywhere, even for single players games.

I am someone who had never bought a single cosmetic item from the mogstation, but I have never any problem its existence. The flaw with your principal is you forget a simple thing: if the store doesn't exist as a revenue stream, those items won't exist to begin with. You probably think the alternative to this would be "everyone get it for free", but that's just fantasy. Realistically the alternative would be "well nobody gonna get it 'cause it won't be created in the first place". It would be another thing if SE release a new raid, but give no gears and say well you have to pay $5 to unlock it ... then your principle can apply.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

They could sell it for $1k for all I care. It’s a non essential and even useless item that doesn’t affect gameplay and that can’t be resold once the code is used.

If people are stupid enough to buy it that’s on them. If it doesn’t affect their budget, they are indulging as they would with other things. Their choice. If someone can’t afford it but still buys it, they need to learn to manage their money and show self restraint. This is no different to some show tickets, designer stuff made with cheap materials and logos slapped over them (there’s a lot of that today…several have developed a mass market and masses buy overpriced items just for the name and no longer for quality or make), etc.

People just need to learn that they can’t have everything in life and live with it.

You have at least 4 mounts from the cash shop.

I'm not sure you have room to talk lol. Some of those mounts were quite expensive.