Final Fantasy XIV:
-Adds a new race (or, rather, adds female option to a race that was previously male-only), gives everybody a free phantasia (an item that you use that triggers a race change, normally $5 IIRC).
World of Warcraft:
-Adds a new Allied Race, makes you pay $25 to change race.
But fem wroth ugly af.
Drac are alright.
New dps is literally ppl with paintbrushes lmao idk how you can compare
Im pretty sure the free Phantasia is more about them updating the appearances of all of the races vs. adding one.
But still, its a nice move.
Doesn’t matter.
Race change in one game is $5, and they’re giving everyone one for free, and in the other, it’s $25 dollars.
Oh, and since when are Drac’thyr “alright”? Pretty sure the vast majority of people were going “eeeew, they look stupid” … now all the sudden they’re good. lol.
This is correct, it doesn’t matter because this isn’t FFXiV.
Oh, cool. This isn’t FFXiV.
Blizzard being greedy, and water is wet more news at 11.
<— The Point.
<---- Your head.
I, too, hate when for-profit companies do for-profit things. I have to go to the grocery store later, I hope those scumbags don’t try to make a profit off me again today!
See, you would have a good analogy if the grocery store was charging you $50 for a gallon of milk while the gas station down the street is charging $5 for theirs.
Whats your point? That Blizzard can make more money off their players on race changes than FF?
No one here actually cares lol.
Go farm enough gold and you wont have to pay for your sub, your race change, or another blizzard game ever again.
Little did you know, I shop almost entirely at Whole Foods.
People make alts when they want different looking characters here, and the game largely expects you to have many alts. Ffxiv youre 1 character. People absolutely spend more on fantasia than race changes because of this.
You don’t have a point, so there’s nothing to miss.
Never heard of it.
/shrug
That would be all the more reason why XIV should be charging more than WoW for a race change, lol.
Maybe FFs price point is so low because people won’t pay more for an inferior product
No you’re wrong it’s:
World of Warcraft:
Gives a reskin of a third dwarf burning a potential race slot.
I’m thinking we’re not going to see anymore new race models.
It’s a more expensive mostly organic food store. I don’t mind paying good money for extra quality, which is why I’m not crying over something another video game gave its players.
That’s not how psychology works.
WoW wants you to have multiple characters, in FF they want you to focus on one character. In order to get people to swap more often, you make it cheaper, meaning more of them get bought. After all… “It is just 5$” is a whole lot easier to justify several times than “It is just 25$”.
Blizzard wants you to make a new character when they make more races available.
Judging by what you have said in this thread, FF wants their players to repeatedly spend more than 25$ on race changes in lieu of making an additional character.
See above.
Folks have been making this conspiratorial point ever since the trading post was released. A guy I bookmarked said that they would “have it before the end of the year” and … safe to say, they were wrong.
Unless you have some serious insight into Blizzard’s marketing department, which I doubt when you don’t seem to understand how basic psychology relating to marketability works … this is speculation and so far, everything points towards the exact opposite direction.
If that’s what you want to tell yourself to sleep at night, lol.
Maybe you shouldn’t put yourself into a progression raiding box. There IS more to do in the game, but you have to look beyond progression raiding to see it.
But that’s what WoW players tend to do.
FF makes great business decisions to actually help people which makes them want to stay, and a grear community that does the same. Win win situation.