Emote Monetization needs to Stop.

[Balmung_Griffin]

This extremely disappointing.
My FC and I have been asking for tabletop pizza for YEARS, as we intended to make a pizza joint.

Imagine our disappointment when they first put the eat pizza emote behind a campaign unavailable to us (we're outside US) and "fortunately" later on cash shop

The tabletop pizza is even worse, it expensive for what it is,have limited use, and you cannot make it non interactive version of it.

This effective made us let go of that dream.

[HyperiusUltima]

This extremely disappointing.
My FC and I have been asking for tabletop pizza for YEARS, as we intended to make a pizza joint.

Imagine our disappointment when they first put the eat pizza emote behind a campaign unavailable to us (we're outside US) and "fortunately" later on cash shop

The tabletop pizza is even worse, it expensive for what it is,have limited use, and you cannot make it non interactive version of it.

This effective made us let go of that dream.

Putting the promo emotes on the store makes sense, since they tend to connect them to IRL instances or companies in some regard - like the KFC Emote that's JP Only(even though us in NA don't get it with it being prevalent).

I do have problem with how they localize them, though, since it feels more like they're trying to focus on 'culture' than they are just including something broad. Their thing on Furnishings technically needs to go as well, since there is a MASSIVE catalog of furnishings from events that haven't be reintroduced in years, like the Christmas Tree that runs for essentially 10M+ Gil or more.

Regardless, I'm going to sit and wait to see what they actually do next, because the content cadence has stepped up a bit to keep people playing from what I've noticed.

7.11 Being Ultimate on 11/26, 7.15 being Hildibrand(and other things, which I'm keeping my eyes peeled for emotes) 12/17, 7.16 being Chaotic CoD 12/24 in the current line-up. So we're essentially looking at a 2/3/1 Content Cadence, with whatever crap they throw in-between.