(12-16-2013, 12:14 PM)Darkfae Wrote: This actually makes me wonder if they're looking at their US markets closely at all. Cus these are more like the US hardcore gamers, and the typical Japanese gamer; I could be mistaken, but from everything I've seen and been told, the average Japanese FFXIV player is much closer to our "hardcore" FFXIV player - they are the ones who grind out a whole bunch of dungeons every night and get in their time in Binding Coil every night, and min-max their five - ten hours online. There's fewer casuals over in the Japanese markets, because their playstyle is just different than ours is, making it almost the reverse of what it is here.
I thought that as well, but from the chat during the livestream and this post on the official forums, even the Japanese players are doing a spit take on the prices. So I'm not sure who they think they're pleasing with this.
