Mog Wardrobe 3 & 4 Announced With A Fee.

Lol RK is not a cash grab? It's a game that preys on addiction.

Obviously, but we're talking about these games making money and how they do it, not the personal enjoyment of, say, Sim City Mobile vs. Record Keeper. Record Keeper earns SE money hand over fist, and it isn't just because of the way the game is designed. It's because of the way they have designed their gacha. All gachapon style games work this way to varying degrees and most of them successfully make exponentially more money than they would ever cost in terms of development assets.

This is the same principle as what is happening with XI, except on a different rail. The cost of maintaining and developing XI is low, the profit margin is still high, and they're increasing those profits using underhanded tactics designed to take advantage of the consumer by offering a service that has already been paid for.

Do you really think it cost them enough money to add two new Mog Wardrobes that they will need $2/mo for every new Mog Wardrobe put on a character in-game to pay off those debts?

Do you truly believe that the money from these services will be going toward making XI better and improving player experience rather than funding the next big cash cow?

Mobile games are made as money batteries. They cost minute amounts to develop and pay in dividends. They do this by preying on human instabilities and tendencies. Once the whales dry up in RK, deNA will cut it. They have done it dozens of times in dozens of gacha games before. Then they'll release a new one and the cycle begins anew.

I said it before: these companies do not care about you or your enjoyment. They only care about having your credit card details.

All you are saying is your assumptions are better than others assumptions. Meaningless.

I'm gonna probably pay for third since 2 wont cover blm+blu, funny how ppl begged for more wardrobe and now that SE give this option fairly cheap imo, people rage quit...you wont be missed thats for sure.

Yeah. Financial records, corporate patterns, and social tendencies are all just fabrications in my mind.

I have no real dog in the race, but the way I see it, we pay at the least, $12 a month for a basic FFXI account, yes? As in, one character, with all the standard trimmings which includes access to the most basic MH which can be expanded through various in-game currencies or quests.

Back when I was still playing, we had access to Mog Wardrobe 1, for free. We had to do a quest series to expand the basic gobbie-bag to eighty slots, had to do a quest to expand MH storage, had to buy and install furnishings into the MH which seemed like a quest in and of itself, had to pay an NPC using imperial bronze pieces in Whitegate to add the Mog Locker and keep that open, had to buy porter mog slips which, again, felt like a quest in and of itself.

That said, it seems odd to me that, after going so long letting us expand our in-game storage via quests or in-game currency exchange, to suddenly say "Oh, now you have to pay more" years later, without at least trimming the amount for the basic subscription fee down a couple bucks or making the game itself F2P with certain services, such as expanded storage, turned into a premium service that you can pay for if you want it.

What financial records do you have of them spending the wardrobe money on other games? None? OK. As I said, assumption.

What financial records do you have of them spending the wardrobe money on other games? None? OK. As I said, assumption.

What about the storage that you only got if you bought security token?

... It won't be long before we see mounts and trusts or something...

Once again how about we take precedent and existing records to show where money is going and where it is coming from. The amount of money that MMOs make does not come even remotely close to the amount of money that is spent on those MMOs. Meanwhile, games such as Final Fantasy XV have immense rivers of money being poured into them despite turning little to no profits on their own since they are as of yet unreleased. A lot of this money comes from existing profitable ventures, Xi, XIV, DHO, Record Keeper, etc.

We were also told that cash shop earnings from XIV would be going in to making XIV better and developing more higher quality content. Yeah, that totally happened right?

Your assumption that SE is going to somehow value your investment more now just because you're paying $2 more for something that you were paying $12.95 for for over a decade is blindly optimistic at best and nonsensical at the worst.

Wow this is pretty horrifying. Now the terrible cash shop from XIV is coming over to XI... It won't be long before we see mounts and trusts or something in there, especially if they are charging for something like this. What a shame that they try to milk their very loyal playerbase by doing this.

Keep in mind that was a one-time purchase of an actual physical good. My two have been sitting on my desk for years. You paid $10 once for a physical item to keep your account secure. SE just incentivized people to purchase this item by adding the Satchel to it.

I'd see a "there's precedence for this" argument if it was a $10 fee for just activating the Satchel. But we were really purchasing the token.

STILL ASSUMPTIONS LOL.

Keep in mind that was a one-time purchase of an actual physical good. My two have been sitting on my desk for years. You paid $10 once for a physical item to keep your account secure. SE just incentivized people to purchase this item by adding the Satchel to it.

I'd see a "there's precedence for this" argument if it was a $10 fee for just activating the Satchel. But we were really purchasing the token.

Yeah, anyway, unless you have a reasonable argument based on fact to come at me with I'm not wasting my time on you anymore. It's ok that you don't understand economics, we have people that you can pay to do that for you.

Before Ladyofhonor moved to Asura last year, he was on Shiva since around launch, and in that entire time he only ever played THF. One job. For like 10+ years.

You've upped your repertoire to THF, COR, and RUN since your transfer. So now you can play 3 jobs! I have 14 jobs geared well enough to play in modern day content. You have no concept of struggling for inventory. You're not going to buy more wardrobes, because you don't need them. This cashgrab doesn't affect you. You ain't got a dog in this fight.

Anyway, LOL, this is a fuct up move on SE's part.

Charging for trusts wouldn't shock me. The AA trusts have been in the game for a while now and haven't been released.

If nothing else the immediate response from the community is slightly nostalgic. Granted I'm a lurker at best, but I haven't seen a FFXI-related thread blow up this fast in a while heh.