You didn't display your argument as a different viewpoint. You displayed it as a correction of my previous statement, thus I said, and quote:
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Those who believe it will effect their perceived value... over vanity objects are stating their own opinions as if they are facts and there's no logical discussion to be had.
A statement that remains true.
There is also a large amount of assumptions made on your part - as far as where the development teams efforts are divided. You cannot view the development cycle as a single liquid commodity. It was pretty clear that nothing impacting game-play has been changed whey the itemized exactly how their combat development works. And when you're arguing vanity vs vanity, I'm sorry, I see absolutely no value in that debate - as we already have paid for bonus content between collector's editions, additional in-game intensives added onto Square Enix products, and purchases of services such as Phantasia Potions and Server Transfers.
This is no different than any one of those, and slippery slope argumentative facilities are tired old hat at this point.
And arguing development percentages when you have no idea of what the level of team efficiency is, makes your argument invalid, especially given previous intensives listed above.
There's always been minions, mounts, services offered for players at a price outside the game. Until now, they were tied to the system differently. Kinda liking that they didn't tie Y'shtola to some SE product. Even if I am still paying for it. I probably still won't by it, but the fact that it's no longer under a pay wall of a different product makes the in-game items more enticing, at least.
Again, my line is drawn at gameplay impact. Nothing in these items impacts my gameplay, nor the development cycle as the gameplay elements are under an entirely different team within the ARR Development staff.
And I'm sorry that I tip my frustration over this, but paying for a subscription service does not give the right of an individual to dictate the man hour distribution of a company that provides the service. That's tantamount to paid servitude.
And the fact that people are calling this 'double dipping' is incorrect. You are not being charged twice for the same thing. Double dipping would be Xbox Live charging you for the Live Subscription to play FFXIV when you're already paying for a FFXIV subscription. Square Enix does not support that. What is being offered to you is something
more and in some cases something
missed for a little extra. It's complete optional, and it has no impact in the actual service you are receiving.
Anyways, I've honestly had my fill of this topic. I'm very staunchly against Buy to Win and I'm glad that's been clarified by Yoshida himself that it's not the case. Believe me, had it no been the case, and this did go buy to win, I'd be gone. However, them going this far? I'm not surprised at all, nor insulted. And I do honestly feel that most people who are raising in protest are much in the vein of those that they would prefer to deny other's content for the sake of placating to their specific ideal of how a game 'should be'.
This is just another choice added. And so long as they continue to implement it as advertised, I will have no issue.
Edited, Oct 22nd 2014 3:05am by Hyrist