Acceptable Cash Shop Items: Suggestions!

[Ikeda]

Again, no one has really addressed my question, only vehemently stated that "cash shops are evil!". What's the issue if it can be done right?

It's impossible to do right because P2P mmos were never meant to have cash shops. You buy the game, pay a monthly fee, maybe buy a expansion pack every 2 or so years, and earn everything through gameplay. At most they're only designed to have "services" like character recreation (fantasia) and server transfers. It's possible to do a cash shop right in a F2P or B2P game because they're designed from the ground up to have that as the game's primary source of income. Try to add a cash shop to something that's already charging a monthly fee and people rightfully feel ripped off and take their money elsewhere.

The addition of cash shops to P2P mmos has been nothing more than greedy companies trying to see how much crap they can get away with before they go too far and lose their customers, the same way non-mmo game companies are pushing their luck with things like DRM, on-disc dlc, "true ending" dlc, dlc that was obviously stripped out content that was meant to be in the main game, season passes which is basically pre-ordering freaking dlc, and now they're even trying to add cash shops to non-mmos themselves and it's all backfiring on them. EA's been voted the worst company in america 2 years in a row, Microsoft had their original announcement of the Xbox One get practically laughed off stage to the point they had to reverse nearly everything they were planning because of the lack of pre-orders, Capcom is at a point where they will likely go bankrupt within the next 2 or so years, and countless mmos over the past 10 or so years have been shut down or had to go F2P.