Cash shop confirmed

[Catsby]

Then I will just buy it. I doubt I will have to take out a second mortgage.....

Whether or not you can afford it isn't the problem. The problem is that you are willing to hand over real money instead of fighting a boss or hiring a crafter for it. Once you start doing that the developers start producing slightly fewer bosses and crafting recipes. Over the next couple years (if you bothered to stick around that long) we missed out on several updates worth of content because the systems and resources to produce it went directly to the cash shop instead.

[Asierid]

Whether or not you can afford it isn't the problem. The problem is that you are willing to hand over real money instead of fighting a boss or hiring a crafter for it. Once you start doing that the developers start producing slightly fewer bosses and crafting recipes. Over the next couple years (if you bothered to stick around that long) we missed out on several updates worth of content because the systems and resources to produce it went directly to the cash shop instead.

I am still waiting for a source on this popular P2P MMO that has a whole updates worth of items on the cash shop. Hell, WoW's numbers have even climbed since implementing more items into theirs, and adding it into the game.

[Hurlstone]

Whether or not you can afford it isn't the problem. The problem is that you are willing to hand over real money instead of fighting a boss or hiring a crafter for it. Once you start doing that the developers start producing slightly fewer bosses and crafting recipes. Over the next couple years (if you bothered to stick around that long) we missed out on several updates worth of content because the systems and resources to produce it went directly to the cash shop instead.

How can we be sure though that we will loose out on the amount of in-game content, relative to what previous updates have bought us? Would they, for example, even be making the cash shop content if they did not know that they would make a profit from it?

That is not to say we will not loose out content etc, but I do think it is best to keep and open mind in these debates I find. Optimism and civil debating is something rather are on forums, I fear. The amount of fearmongering has actually taken me by surprise. With over ten years of MMO history under my belt though, I should really be used to it. Much of the debate seems to lay itself down to 'ifs' and 'buts'. The simple presence of anything remotely 'cash shop/F2P' causes some players to announce the games immediate death. It is like saying that catching a cold means you are going to die. A lot of this unrestrained anger and venom just seems so... unnecessary.

Oh, and forgive is the above paragraph offends or anything, I honestly do not mean to cause any hostility or prove anything. I am tiered, and these threads are giving me a fat chocobo sized headache...

[Catsby]

snip.

because some people here can recognize the publisher's greed and don't want to see yet another decent online game slowly turn into a cash shop with an online game attached to it.