Originally Posted by
Silenka
It's sad but true. For example, SE has been cashing in on FF nostalgia for a loooong time now. There is a very good reason most of what they produce are remakes, rehashes and games such as Record Keeper and Theatrhythm that let you "re-live" the games in new ways. There are tons of people, proven, who will buy anything with the FF name tacked onto it and who will waste tons of money on frivolous shit related to FF.
Where I start to fail to understand the XIV model is this: I am one of the people they target with the nostalgia products, but I absolutely can't reconcile buying shit from a cash shop when I'm paying a monthly sub fee, ESPECIALLY shit that's already in the game/just a reskin and takes 0 effort on the dev's part to make. I can't accept that there's "no way" to give players more inventory space (because SE's too busy cashing in on the extra retainer fees). I do not understand how ANYONE, even the most die-hard FF nostalgia consumers, could be okay with this and take it for granted, particularly when the game is struggling to deliver actual content even despite all the cash they're making from the shop on top of the sub fees.
I would love to get into the heads of the people who are okay with the cash shop and find out what killed the hamsters that run their brain-wheels. It makes absolutely zero sense to me that someone could go through the steps of deciding they want Minfilia's outfit, see that it is one-piece non-dyebale, and also by the way fifteen bucks, and just go "yea why not, I didn't need that money anyway".
The fuck.