Acceptable Cash Shop Items: Suggestions!

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You don't see that information popping up in search engines because those were the old forums. After the switch to F2P they opened up new forums and had the old forums deleted. But here is a few links showing people's discontent with the current state of the game:

http://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forum...I-was-lied-too
http://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forum...ve-ruined-TERA
http://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forum...your-customers
http://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forum...at-a-cash-grab

Apparently the game is even worse off now than I thought it was. As you can see what started out as a purely vanity cash shop, quickly devolved into P2W among many other things. Back when TERA was P2P and even during the time it was F2P the game had a system sort of similar to FFXIV's glamour where you could put the looks of a piece of a equipment over one that has better stats. According to one of those threads they recently removed that system entirely to force people to have no choice but to buy the costumes on the cash shop if they want any sort of vanity content. Also if those threads are anything to go by it would be impossible for me to provide a link because those threads would fall under that forum's rules of "threads that have to be deleted" which they very likely were deleted long ago if they weren't already deleted with the switch to the new forums.

I can't provide a list of other P2P games that failed despite only adding a vanity cash shop because as far as I know there hasn't been a single other mmo that only added a vanity cash shop without going down the P2W route which as you can see even TERA itself devolved into the P2W route after a while which simply shows that according to history there is pretty much zero chance for a P2P game to only add a vanity cash shop and stick to only being vanity because the greed is simply too tempting for the companies.