Quote Originally Posted by Chasely View Post
FFXI does not have a cash shop because they tried adding additional services via mini-expansions. Very few people bought them. Then, they tried reskinning vanilla areas for their new expansion with vanity rewards. That was unpopular as well. It's not that FFXI didn't try to half-do things and take advantage of the player-base for easy cash. The players simply refused to accept them.
Mini-expansions (add-ons)/Expansions are content put into the game. I don't know much about Seekers so I can't comment on that. However, the way your describing it, they never had a "true" cash shop but they tried to make money else where.