Cash Shop Items for FFXIV possible future update?

[indira]

I'll never understand cash shops in subscription games... especially when the items are half the box or subscription price. (Don't get me started on this whole DLC hoopla either)

like in when the cash shop came about on age of conan a set of armor was like $75 even the vanity equip high crazy high

[Rahsch]

yoshi-p said later on in 2.0 they would release barber and he want to release little by little more and more stuff but he said he only allow to change hair and tottos not eye color or skin or other

Yeah, I think I heard something about him adding a barber/tattoo parlor in-game. It's kinda expected to only change hair styles...tattoo removal or what not would just seem painful but not impossible...the only way I could see if they did eyes is if they said they were contacts. XD

[Atoli]

The only things I want to cost real money are server transfers and character name changes and such.
Im fine with stuff like that being possible because it neither makes you better nor makes you different from other players.
A price is alright because it keeps people from abusing it (like changing their name 5 times a day) and also because stuff like transfering character data to another server is actual work (beyond what we pay for with our sub) for the FFXIV team so thinking about it, it's alright if it costs money.

At a reasonable price though, not $30 or something like that.

[Renala]

I would say I'd be tenative on cash shop. If its just vanity items and race/server/gender changes and all that, I'd be ok with it. If its gear that puts you above the normal player, then I'd be against it. Cash shop vs pay to win setup, basically.


Also, whats with all the bad topics today? "FTP Model!" bickering about.. well just about everything.. Or bringing up old topics again.

[Skull_Angel]

I see no problem with cash shops if it's strictly for vanity items.

[Zumi]

I played an MMO that had a sub fee WoW that has many cash shop mounts $25 and pets $10. I just never felt obligated to buy any cash shop mounts or pets. Although some people do. Blizzard makes millions each time they release a new cash shop exclusive mount. For example 16% of the player base in wow bought the Celestial Steed mount data was pulled from the armory by a fansite. At the time of release WoW had 12 million players.

That's 1,920,000 mount buyers x $25 = $48,000,000. So yea Blizzard made 48m selling 1 mount on a cash shop which probably took 1 person like less then a day to create since the mount was just a reskin of another mount in the game. So they continue to release cash shop mounts every 6 months or so.

It isn't even a free to play game and they make millions selling cash shop mounts and pets. One of the reasons F2P games seem to be doing so well these days.

If SE wants to make more money they shouldn't ignore stuff like this as a way to get revenue.

[Rahsch]

No thank you. :<

[Azraelle]

On a subscription-based game I really only want to see 2 things available for cash outside of my subscription:
-Server transfers (because sometimes you need one, like if friends start playing on a different server 'cause yours is full)
-actual, physical merchandise

I am casually open to in-game vanity items being available, but I'd still prefer it didn't happen. I'm a big no on things that actually assist you in game or are necessary in game to properly play your character being in a cash shop on games with subscriptions.

[Bowen]

Guys, this is Klaus' alt account. Stop taking it seriously.

[ShinigamiKayla]

TSW is doing it and its working out well >.> cash shop for cosmetics is okay as long as it is not randomized gear or such where you end up blowing loads of cash and have no chance of getting something like most cash shop games