
Originally Posted by
MsSideEye
Then you've also got to look at the things in the store that ARE those higher prices and realize something about them, especially in terms of glam. The higher priced ones are stuff that are normally wouldn't fit the world of FFXIV itself and are something that they put in for players to have fun with. Stuff like the recent Fat Cat Attire or the Street Attire are there to give the players an option to have clothing that's completely separate from the normal reality of the game, thus they charge a bit more. Notice that things that are already in game models, like anything that is NPC specific like the Scion's clothing is cheaper, because they already had the assets.
Mounts and Minions are also drastically different compared to WoW. In fact, NO MINION in the FFXIV store is something that was just put into the store. ALL of them are from past events with only the Fan Festival minions being a little bit more expensive because... well, those were set up to be from special events and ALL of them are characters from other games. Mounts fall into different catagories depending on what they are, but even then, most are fairly priced. You've got the previous holiday mounts, which considering FFXIV doesn't repeat it's holiday events and changes it every year, I think it's fair to offer older rewards on the store for a cheaper price, which they do. Any of the mounts that are a higher price, like the Shiba Mount or the Kingly Peacock, are ones that are fairly unique and wouldn't really work as in game rewards from a faction or reward. And the rest are special in many ways, with something like the Lunar Whale being not only an 8 Person mount but also something that was a Fan festivial specific reward.
Finally, there's just the simple fact that it's overall cheaper to get these things in FFXIV than it is in WoW. Did you know that for 3 dollars more, I can race change in XIV 3 times for what WoW charges for their race change? AND that's with the added benefit of being able to just carry an item around that does that and letting me choose to change when I want. And most things that I could really want that aren't mounts (Minions, Orchestration Rolls, Emotes, Armor and more) fall into the price range to where I could not go to Starbucks for a day and be able to get them for the one character I play.
Sooo, yeah... kinda a big difference there.