With the recent talk of changing the names of the titles in the firmament and seeing the badass omega weapon statue, it has brought up some issues I personally have had for a while and would love to hear what the community thinks about these things as well.
As I just mentioned in the recent live letter an awesome statue of omega with omega M/F was displayed for a whopping ~220 USD. The quality looks great and if I was someone who liked having videogame memorable displayed in my house I would really consider it but, I am not. My problem is not with these awesome statues like omega~220 USD, shiva~150 USD, and odin~180 USD. It's the emotes that are locked behind the huge paywalls, I.E.; Zantetsuken, Diamond Dust, and the new emote for omega. I feel these products bring value to the company and I don't want them to stop making them, I just want them to stop putting in-game content on out of the game products to incentives paying customer to pay more to get all the items that they should get in the game. I personally feel in-game content belongs in the game with means to obtain it in the game. That is why I pay a sub, for content to go in the game, not to buy cool products that I may or may not want just so I can have all the emotes.
This leads me to the cash shop. I know some people are going to disagree or come back with the response that the cash shop items revenue is used to create more cash shop items. This is an irrelevant statement IMO. I feel the gaming industry has conditioned gamers to want to complete these goals by rewarding platinum trophies in the past and the 100% completion title. Thus, I feel like these cash shops are a form of predatory practice by excluding items from the game to have customers pay more for content that should be already included in the paid product. Normally this is w/e in a free-to-play game but this is a subscription-based game and the reason I support subscription-based games is to avoid these kinds of practices or hope to at least.
That is not possible in FFXIV if you want to acquire all minions/mounts/emotes at all due to 2 things.
[*]Minions/Mounts on Cash Shop/Seasonal Items
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As I just mentioned in the recent live letter an awesome statue of omega with omega M/F was displayed for a whopping ~220 USD. The quality looks great and if I was someone who liked having videogame memorable displayed in my house I would really consider it but, I am not. My problem is not with these awesome statues like omega~220 USD, shiva~150 USD, and odin~180 USD. It's the emotes that are locked behind the huge paywalls, I.E.; Zantetsuken, Diamond Dust, and the new emote for omega. I feel these products bring value to the company and I don't want them to stop making them, I just want them to stop putting in-game content on out of the game products to incentives paying customer to pay more to get all the items that they should get in the game. I personally feel in-game content belongs in the game with means to obtain it in the game. That is why I pay a sub, for content to go in the game, not to buy cool products that I may or may not want just so I can have all the emotes.
This leads me to the cash shop. I know some people are going to disagree or come back with the response that the cash shop items revenue is used to create more cash shop items. This is an irrelevant statement IMO. I feel the gaming industry has conditioned gamers to want to complete these goals by rewarding platinum trophies in the past and the 100% completion title. Thus, I feel like these cash shops are a form of predatory practice by excluding items from the game to have customers pay more for content that should be already included in the paid product. Normally this is w/e in a free-to-play game but this is a subscription-based game and the reason I support subscription-based games is to avoid these kinds of practices or hope to at least.
That is not possible in FFXIV if you want to acquire all minions/mounts/emotes at all due to 2 things.
[*]Minions/Mounts on Cash Shop/Seasonal Items
- In order to complete the mount/minions collection in FFXIV you have to pay hundreds if not thousands of your country's currency to buy in-game items that are not available to be obtained in-game in no possible way. Granted some items are seasonal events rewards that have passed and instead of recycling the rewards into the next year's event, they decide to just throw it on the cash shop and have you pay additional money for it. To be completely honest it's disgusting as a fan of SE and a gamer IMO that additional revenue comes first over the player's investments that made this game a success in the first place. OFC they are a business, but that doesn't make what they are doing right or that it is not predatory.
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