All that talk on the live letter about how we didn't get a normal mode for FT:B because it would cost too much and then immediately turning around and announcing this genuinely feels insulting. I know the team that actually works on the content, the stuff people like about the game, and the team of real-life Rowenas born of the hellish nightmare known as late-stage capitalism behind mogstation are different teams, but that doesn't make it any better.
$18 an outfit that doesn't even come with gloves, and the hat doesn't seem to work for Viera or Hrothgar, when a big point in 7.3 was that Viera and Hrothgar would finally be able to wear hats! If you want the gloves, get ready to pay another $6! Oh, what's that? You wanted the sleeves rolled up? Sorry, that's another $18, you poor fuck! What's next? Am I gonna have to pay an extra $18 for the privilege of getting a set of very slightly modified ARR gear in a specific color that could've just been dyed? Am I gonna have to pay an extra $18 to get every single permutation of that outfit as a one-piece?
This legitimately feels like an insult to the community at large, and should be treated as such. Charging $42 for a full mogstation outfit that, by the way, isn't even account-wide, if you want it on a different character, you still need to buy the whole damn $42 outfit again, should be legitimately unthinkable. They do this shit and then wonder why people just mod the outfits onto their characters. The mogstation team gets to be this inexcusably greedy while the money this game and its subs rake in get misappropriated by SE to fund whatever their next game that takes ten years to develop and will be DOA will be. Something's gotta change, and they're only gonna change when they see sales go down.
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$18 an outfit that doesn't even come with gloves, and the hat doesn't seem to work for Viera or Hrothgar, when a big point in 7.3 was that Viera and Hrothgar would finally be able to wear hats! If you want the gloves, get ready to pay another $6! Oh, what's that? You wanted the sleeves rolled up? Sorry, that's another $18, you poor fuck! What's next? Am I gonna have to pay an extra $18 for the privilege of getting a set of very slightly modified ARR gear in a specific color that could've just been dyed? Am I gonna have to pay an extra $18 to get every single permutation of that outfit as a one-piece?
This legitimately feels like an insult to the community at large, and should be treated as such. Charging $42 for a full mogstation outfit that, by the way, isn't even account-wide, if you want it on a different character, you still need to buy the whole damn $42 outfit again, should be legitimately unthinkable. They do this shit and then wonder why people just mod the outfits onto their characters. The mogstation team gets to be this inexcusably greedy while the money this game and its subs rake in get misappropriated by SE to fund whatever their next game that takes ten years to develop and will be DOA will be. Something's gotta change, and they're only gonna change when they see sales go down.
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