To Devs: Stop Shoveling Content Into the Cash Shop

[User202503201232]

>Saw new cash shop item
>checked the forums to see if white knights jump to defend it immediately
>was not disappointed

EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

[Heavenchild]

Isn't the emote from another game version? Stuff from the other teams sadly always goes to the cash shop.
I heard the Chinese players don't have to pay a sub, or a cheaper sub. So that cash shop items are important for financial success. But I am not totally sure if that information is right.

When those items come to us, they stay cashshop items. And we have to pay additionally.

The plant items are not that nice that they would be worth so much money. Well ^^"
There would have been plenty options to make them obtainable in the game, instead of the shop. :x

There are already 2 new glamour sets from other game versions. One of them looks a little bit like AOT in my opinion. Look forward to pay even more! *sadsmile*

[BokoToloko]

It never gets less baffling how we're stuck with a cash-shop in games were we already have to pay a subscription and an expansion along with it. And some items costing way more than one month's sub money that goes on top of the sub, since you need an active service account, to boot. In a more customer friendly world, this kind of thing should just stay on F2P. And let's not talk about the elephant in the room that are emotes that already existed and needed absolutely zero additional design time yet SE slapped a price tag on them nevertheless, like /deride.

If you want them to stop putting things in the cash shop, you need to start voting with your wallet. Don't use the cash shop ever and get as many people to do the same so it actually shows in statistics that players refuse to buy furniture items like that on cash shop.

I am indifferent about this, but if you really want to make a stink, then the only language you can speak is Money to get your point across.

It takes few people to make most cash-shop items profitable, meaning it's very easy to undermine any attempt to "vote with our wallets", even if most of the playerbase were to agree on sabotaging the online store.

If trying to force the companies hand and stop these kind of practices were that simple, microtransactions would've been a thing from the past already, considering they've sparked heat ever since their inception.

[Heavenchild]

The Chinese also have a new flying hotpot mount. Their team also made a little announcement trailer just for the mount. Seems like that the Chinese team has much more resources than our Japanese dev team. :c

[CalvinDescoles]

I'm saying maybe someone designed it for new craftable furniture in 7.2 until one of the higher-ups saw it and said "nah let's make it a store item."

someone already dig that and these items are composed with only old and already existing asset you can find in the world map. *insert clown face*

proof https://imgur.com/a/Up5p5U2 Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah that is 2.0 years old assets at the cost of 5€/$ )))))))))))))

(here is the original post : https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...urniture/page5 )

[xbahax92]

The overall dissatisfaction makes this one hard to swallow. Things have been too silent for too long, and while this isn't the first cash shop item it just stirs up shit even more.

The game is going through another content drought at expansion start. The negativity even reaches players who were otherwise fine with the game.
Honestly, I think the golden era of ffxiv has come to an end.

[Mijeme]

It is almost like it is never ever gonna change is it? Like....we should just get over it because it is not gonna stop and nothing the playerbase does can affect its existance.

[LilaIronman]

It's artificially gatekeeping something that should be a frickin' feature in this game. If you're going to keep shoveling actually good things into the Cash Shop for cheap sh*t? You're going to lose your playerbase. Oh wait - Dawntrail already did that because you fumbled the bag. HARD.

In case you didn't know, I am still watching for new emotes. I am waiting for new equipment or glamours to be added that aren't Cash Shop. I'm waiting for furnishings that aren't in the Cash Shop...can we even get a god damn crumb at this point?!

JUST. STOP. PUTTING. THINGS. IN. THE. CASH. SHOP.

I don't care if it's inbetween patches to try and fill the void because "Oh well we worked on this on the side..." because guess what? You should've done that in the HOTFIX! If there's one thing I am pissed about it's that SE is giving the player the middle finger while we pay our subs monthly for various reasons that I will not go into.

Irregardless, as a community we need to push for this change if we want it. There's no "if", there's no "but", there is only DO IT OR DON'T. This isn't a Korean MMO, but it is egregious with how bloated the Cash Shop is with Content that is locked behind Real Money. I don't care if it's $2, I don't care if it's $5, I don't care if it's frickin' $20, I'M NOT BUYING. Everything in that Cash Shop is content the player is gatekept from because of their own wallet.

The only thing I'll leave here with is this: Please. Stop doing Cash Shop already. We know we're getting things in 7.2. But with how much is already on there? JUST LEAVE IT ALONE. This game is in dire need of content, and even if we're getting a new raid tier and some other stuff? I'm tired of seeing the same song and dance - and of course, people will want to say "Why don't you just quit and unsub".

I stay because I want to. You pay the Cash Shop for crap because you want to. All I'm asking is for a boycott of the Cash Shop, and while this won't reach Reddit or Social Media since this is the Forums, we need this cycle to end. It's as bad as the frickin' content cycle at this point, which has been churning into slop since Endwalker.

Anyway, my rant's done. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

But how are they making up the loss in their other failed games

[CaptainLagbeard]

The Chinese also have a new flying hotpot mount. Their team also made a little announcement trailer just for the mount. Seems like that the Chinese team has much more resources than our Japanese dev team. :c

The Chinese and South Korean markets are one of the main reasons the cash shop exists as far as I know... As last I heard the sub there are extremely cheap and paid based on hours played...
But they also just bring the cash shop stuff to everywhere else as well.

[ElysiumDragon]

Wait, there's a new emote???

Buying it now, I don't buy mounts or outfits as often, but emotes are a must-buy.