This is pure, disgusting greed

[YouMayNot]

You need to pay $60 dollar to buy the full game, or $40 for an expansion. On top of that there's a subscription fee. After MULTIPLE years of players asking: Can we get Hilda's hairstyle, like this thread here:

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/496026



Square Enix didn't add it to a dungeon or the Gold Saucer. They added it as a $5 Mog Station item. Do you know many Mog Station items there are in the game now ? The total microtransactions you can buy is now more than $1000. This is for a game that you have to pay AAA money for, on top of that you have a subscription fee, and hmm ? The most popular requests that players have been asking nicely for is something you have to pay extra !

This is just pure, disgusting greed. Not to mention they don't even allow any refund, so if you don't like the hairstyle or change race you can't even do anything about it. How is this acceptable ?

Next time, don't ask Square Enix for any cosmetic. You know what they will do ? They'll take the most popular request and add it to Mog Station.

Chloe

[VeyaAkemi]

A core problem is, why wouldn't they? corporations aren't without blame of course, but their behavior is predictable and they will do what nets the most profit, and you will see no shortage of people wearing the Hilda hair around, or how it was impossible to not trip on people wearing the Leisurewear outfit all over the game the week or so after it came out, too many people are too willing to buy, and so Square sees it as free money.

Even I can't claim to be fully immune to it, any time I see that damn store, the Far Eastern Maiden outfit speaks to me like it is the damn Green Goblin mask...

[Teno]

A core problem is, why wouldn't they? corporations aren't without blame of course, but their behavior is predictable and they will do what nets the most profit, and you will see no shortage of people wearing the Hilda hair around, or how it was impossible to not trip on people wearing the Leisurewear outfit all over the game the week or so after it came out, too many people are too willing to buy, and so Square sees it as free money.

Even I can't claim to be fully immune to it, any time I see that damn store, the Far Eastern Maiden outfit speaks to me like it is the damn Green Goblin mask...

Corporations also have it in their best interest not to alienate their users time and again. Especially for a company front and center where players directly react to them.

[VeyaAkemi]

Corporations also have it in their best interest not to alienate their users time and again. Especially for a company front and center where players directly react to them.

On paper, yes, but you will have to do some serious cherry picking to find corporations that don't just push the envelope as far as they can.

[BigCheez]

On paper, yes, but you will have to do some serious cherry picking to find corporations that don't just push the envelope as far as they can.

You only need to look as far as Larian to see that not being greedy can pay huge dividends.

[VeyaAkemi]

You only need to look as far as Larian to see that not being greedy can pay huge dividends.

And you need to understand, Larian is a huge exception to this, I am not saying companies like such don't exist or even they aren't high profile, I am saying that in the number of companies that are like that is very low in their ecosystem.

Do not misunderstand my words as "They are doing the best possible for profits", I am saying that corporations act like that because they feel this is the best possible for profits, so much of corporatism is vibes-based bullshit led by Liches with misplaced phylacteries, and very often do not reflect reality, much like how they now have a hard line stance against remote work because they feel like it could lead to employees "cheating" them out of wages, with a lot of evidence pointing to the contrary, however, this type of behavior also makes them extremely predictable, with very sparse variants.

[Red-thunder]

You only need to look as far as Larian to see that not being greedy can pay huge dividends.

They don't make nearly as much as mobile gacha games.

Like it or not the ultimate blame lies with gamers, who accept slop day after day.

[Jeeqbit]

The way I see it, if it's used by an MSQ or story character, then they don't want you to be able to use it since it keeps those MSQ characters unique. But they are willing to let you anyway if you pay them.

[TaleraRistain]

The way I see it, if it's used by an MSQ or story character, then they don't want you to be able to use it since it keeps those MSQ characters unique. But they are willing to let you anyway if you pay them.

That's pretty much the reason I wasn't expecting it anywhere but the Mogstation. I don't think we have anything that we've gotten that was used by an NPC that wasn't Mogstation, have we? It's not really unique when everyone buys it and see you see it everywhere, but like you said, they at least will allow that if players pay them. And eventually players find a new shiny so you don't see it used as much. Even I've moved on from using the Lyse hairstyle and I wanted that for years.

[Clockworks]

That's pretty much the reason I wasn't expecting it anywhere but the Mogstation. I don't think we have anything that we've gotten that was used by an NPC that wasn't Mogstation, have we? It's not really unique when everyone buys it and see you see it everywhere, but like you said, they at least will allow that if players pay them. And eventually players find a new shiny so you don't see it used as much. Even I've moved on from using the Lyse hairstyle and I wanted that for years.

How nice of SE to let us use our money to get an hairstyle from NPC's.

Seriously people are really ready to defend anything on this forum

"Well actually they dont want you to have the hairstyle but they're -allowing- you to buy it with real money because that totally makes it better"

seriously lmao do yall even read yourself and question "maybe what i'm typing right now isnt making any sense"