Mounts and Minions to buy for charity.

How do you guys feel about buying mounts and minions (when they have a online store for XIV) to help a good cause?

As FFXIV is an MMO with a monthly subscription, I truly hope they do not implement a cash shop that offers "vanity" items regardless of the cause.

I would rather just donate to a charity rather than donate to simply obtain a mount.

Didn't we have something like this in FFXI that gave you a moogle hat for donating? I really don't see why this would be a bad idea.

The only 'Cash Shop' they have is the MogStation. They are thinking of adding Fantasia as a GC item instead of a MogStation item to avoid the Cash Shop. The only things you can buy at the moment via MogStation are:
1) Digital CE Upgrade
2) World Transfer
3) Subscription

There are planned Optional Services coming in the future, but I don't know how they will work out. Perhaps it will be like adding an additional Fantasia per character for the account (and having it be like $5.00 / 500 Crysta?) instead of having you purchase Fantasia with GC Seals. They are also looking into an item to allow you to rename your character, which would probably fall here too.

Go back to WoW. That being said, I have tons of charities asking me for donations every year and I rather give local to places I know. And to SE if they are reading I make this plea, NO CASH SHOP IN FFXIV!!

If you need to be bribed in order to donate to a good cause, there's something wrong here.

No - don't want any kind of cash shop. I don't want to pay x amount of extra monies for mounts, minions, or stupid hats.

eh, you can already buy from some NPCs

if you mean cash shop for minion, then no
Only as a bonus item if you buy something else. Like a Lightning minion if buy one of the first 1000 Lightning Return game.

Why not just.. donate to a charity?