Cash shops: Whats wrong with you?

[HakuroDK]

Pot kettle was in regards to your post saying someone was close-minded.

I'll explain myself.

The person I called closed-minded outright refused to hear anything on the subject of a cash shop, immediately calling it bad, and told someone that, if they like a cash shop so much, they can go somewhere else.

The textbook definition of being closed-minded is: obstinately resistant to argument or to unfamiliar or unwelcome ideas. Source: Merriam-Webster


Which, on the subject of the definition of closed-mindedness, it is often used out of context of its actual meaning to refer to anything that disagrees with anyone else regardless of how well they listen to the opposing viewpoint, much like the word irony is often used to define a coincidence rather than its actual definition which refers to something happening contrary to or despite certain conditions dictating otherwise.

Not once was I ever closed-minded about anything. All I have ever stressed since the start is that I lack the understanding as to why a Cash Shop is such a bad thing, and only one person during this whole argument has ever given me a valid argument against cash shops. I even liked his post, quoted it, and said "This is how you argue your point." A closed-minded person would NEVER acknowledge someone who disagrees with them as having a valid point.

It looks like you are OK with it as long as it's not related to combat.

If you'll notice, while I said dungeons (which are, indeed, related to combat), I also mentioned quests and other related content, which could be pretty much everything from combat to crafting to gathering to even dancing, as a few quest chains in 2.2 have done. I don't think content that tells a story should be locked to anyone. I only made the distinction to dungeons because, if I were to say "I don't want content that increases stats or unlocks content", people would automatically assume, for some reason, that I thought that buying any cash shop item would "unlock" it as "content", and I wanted to avoid that at whatever cost, but apparently, I still got misunderstood. Again.

Not better, but they lock a style behind a paywall. Meaning you have to pay cash to RP it.

Now I'm normally one who gets obsessed with vanity-related stuff, but with this... is how someone looks such a barrier to RP? Because other than certain FCs who have a dress code, I don't really get that. And if you're thinking about things like approachability, that's not it either. I'm on Balmung, an RP server. Every week or so, I wander into the Quicksand in Ul'dah and take a seat, wearing my normal vanity (seen in my sig below). Not a single time did I ever get approached by anyone ever to start an RP. Probably because I'm a Roegadyn and people tend to be more fond of approaching scantily-clad Miqo'te or any non-Roe female characters than anyone who looks even remotely interesting, but that's just my point of view.

I just don't feel like you've proven your point to me at all.