Originally Posted by
Avoidy
Street Attire should've been a spinoff quest where the retired WoL tries to be a regular guy who's not recognized constantly, so Tataru makes you an outfit based on what she thinks "normal people" wear. It could've had a funny little side story associated with it, a happy little memory. Instead, it's 22 dollars. The Mameshiba mount, which released alongside this outfit, could've been a quest chain where you find an abandoned doggo and help him out, and then at the end he just becomes your traveling companion. Could've had a nice narrative connection to it. Instead, it's 24 dollars.
I know the ship's sailed, but I'll keep saying it. The content's delivered at a dripfeed pace every 4 months; the game itself is buy to play and subscription based. Meanwhile, these items cost a third of what an expansion costs, and people are buying them like crazy, but where does the money even go. Hroth/Viera still have issues. Housing is still a wreck. The PVE section is on fire with people begging for their jobs to be made fun again. Zero communication, lengthy waits for changes, but we can always count on some expensive mogstation set that could've been gameplay instead. I just think it's gross on principle, reminds me of the f2p cashgrab games I left. Stylistically, the outfits remind me of that roadtrip final fantasy game, in the sense that they feel like they don't belong at all. I know we already have stupid stuff that feels like it doesn't belong, but that's why this sort of thing is so bad imo. It just opens the door for more crap like this to appear in the future, and if you have an issue with it, well, "it's okay because that ship has sailed anyway." So imo on every level it's just bad and I wish it didn't exist.