Cash Shop Items for FFXIV possible future update?

[Jamesy]

already paying $9.99 a month cash shops no thanks cash shops are for games that are free to play and to get cool crap you pay to get them this is ffxiv or a square enix game where everything is obtainable except exclusive event items which are time and case/area sensitive if you want to buy stuff with real money in this game go play something else.

[Spy]

As an avid supporter of FFXIV (Check my youtube, I've been boasting bout my faith in this game since 2010) IF they add cash shops, I SWEAR TO GOD I will delete my subscription. I'm not even playing. I'll find another game to play.

THE ONLY External money they would get from me, besides monthly payments, that I would accept is like the suggestion earlier, for SE to make actual, physical models of your characters.

[Shougun]

As an avid supporter of FFXIV (Check my youtube, I've been boasting bout my faith in this game since 2010) IF they add cash shops, I SWEAR TO GOD I will delete my subscription. I'm not even playing. I'll find another game to play.

THE ONLY External money they would get from me, besides monthly payments, that I would accept is like the suggestion earlier, for SE to make actual, physical models of your characters.

Thats actually a really good idea XD - physical models of your character. I'm sure they have or know a production facility to produce physical models from computer models. Why stop there though, I wouldnt mind having minature Uldah's or other cities either (similar how Lord of the Rings made the Minas Tirith model). Dalamund hovering over (crashing) into Limsa - ill buy it lol.

[LlenCoram]

Thats actually a really good idea XD - physical models of your character. I'm sure they have or know a production facility to produce physical models from computer models. Why stop there though, I wouldnt mind having minature Uldah's or other cities either (similar how Lord of the Rings made the Minas Tirith model). Dalamund hovering over (crashing) into Limsa - ill buy it lol.

Perfect world: Yoshi is friends with the people at Goodsmile Company, and through those connections he makes a deal where our characters can be rapidly 3D printed in resin.

I'd be willing to pay quite a bit for a model of my character.

[Setto]

hell no!
we pay for subs monthly

it more logic that we can get those cosmetic, change appearance, mount and costume through in-game content without cash

i don't understand the logic "as long it's cosmetic, cash shop is okay"
for god sake paying subs we should got all those in-game.

i prefer word "idiot" for those saying "as long it's cosmetic, cash shop is okay"
pardon my rudeness

PS. Real Money for my own char model? merchandise ? I will buy it without second thought

[Rahsch]

hell no!
we pay for subs monthly

it more logic that we can get those cosmetic, change appearance, mount and costume through in-game content without cash

i don't understand the logic "as long it's cosmetic, cash shop is okay"
for god sake paying subs we should got all those in-game.

i prefer word "idiot" for those saying "as long it's cosmetic, cash shop is okay"
pardon my rudeness

PS. Real Money for my own char model? merchandise ? I will buy it without second thought

Hell I would even pay more money if they put in a part of what city your nation is, your flag, your favorite class and then maybe a monster in with your character statue, I would imagine something like this to maybe cost about $100 but I would rather spend that much on my character model than have a cash shop for items you can't get in-game without spending cash on.

[Preypacer]

hell no!
we pay for subs monthly

it more logic that we can get those cosmetic, change appearance, mount and costume through in-game content without cash

i don't understand the logic "as long it's cosmetic, cash shop is okay"
for god sake paying subs we should got all those in-game.

i prefer word "idiot" for those saying "as long it's cosmetic, cash shop is okay"
pardon my rudeness

PS. Real Money for my own char model? merchandise ? I will buy it without second thought

I touched on this in another post last night. When you see people saying "as long as it's only cosmetic", what they're really saying is, "as long as it's nothing I would feel was necessary to buy, I'm okay with it".

Basically, they're okay if others have to spend more money to get stuff.. just as long as they don't.

The classic "not in my backyard!" mentality.

[Risae]

We NEED cashshop items or else Square Enix will lose even more money.

[Rahsch]

We NEED cashshop items or else Square Enix will lose even more money.

How would they lose money?

[Levian]

We NEED cashshop items or else Square Enix will lose even more money.

Someone needs to point this out, looks like I'll be that asshole today...if they didn't rush to compete with Cataclysm, they wouldn't have lost money in the first place. Remember the state this game was in a little over year ago? People didn't play it for a week then leave in droves because there was no cash shop, or they didn't wanna pay a subscription fee. SE didn't replace everyone on the Dev team because the game was lacking in the vanity items for dollars department. The guy that cashed out that large chunk of SE stock the day of release didn't do so because he had no faith in the p2p monthly subscription framework.

SE got burned becase they rushed to release and the game turned out to be an unplayable monstrosity. Throwing up a cash shop, especially right now, would not only be like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound it would also be an insult. Judging by Yoshida's comment about taking his sweet time to make sure ARR is fully ready for release, they've learned their lesson. It's a crying shame it took a multimillion dollar loss, and dragging the name of their flagship franchise through the mud for them to learn that lesson. However, you'll find me unsympathetic because that's a novice error for a new game developer, not one that's been in the business for 20+ years. But they're on the right track now, their hard work looks like it's paying off, so let's not throw them off track just yet.