Okay here goes.

I pay my subscription fee every month to play the game. So far I've spent a good chunk of money into the game and I'm sure so have others. What most people see is just a new item added to the game. Okay it costs $?/€? but that's okay as long as this is a one time thing - yes? No.


Even if this would be intended as a one-time thing it wouldn't stay like that. Cash shops generate money. Very much money. For little effort. All you have to do is design the items and put them up in the cash shop. No Story. No Quest. Now there's no doubt that a new shiny mount will generate a lot of $€$ for SE. Put it up for $15 - people will buy it. Put it up for $50 - people will buy it. Hell you can even put it up for $1000. People will still buy it. This leads to SEs marketing guys. They'll think "hey.. if they pay for an ingame item.. Why not bring more of them?" And like that you'll have a good cash shop going. Even if it doesn't affect FFXIV that much... think of the next FF MMO if they will ever release one. Will it be F2P because cash shops = money? Or will we have evolved to MMO = sub + p2w?

The worst thing about it is that many players are bored and just log in every tuesday.. so instead of designing enjoyable content around the said item they just put it up for sale.

Quote Originally Posted by Asierid View Post
Vanity. Meaning if you like it, buy it. If you don't, then don't. Considering the majority of the people would have one character and do a one time purchase, it isn't event remotely enough to support the game on it's own. The F2P games can show you this, the cash shop has to have things that players need, and they need them to be bought over and over in order to make any decent money from it.

Way to blow things out of proportion.
It is enough to support the game. Hell even our Sub fee gives them revenue. That's why it bothers me. I'm paying to play a game. I expect 100% of the game to be available to me. (Things can be locked behind a very hard fight if you want. I don't mind if I don't have everything then.) But setting up another $$$$ wall when I already pay monthly sub for the game - Nope.

tl;dr
Cash shops are bad for the game and all future SE games/mmos.