Cash shop confirmed

[SirSaber]

Why are people so perplexed about this?
WoW's been doing it since years, it's only minions and mounts, where is the problem?
You don't like it because you have to buy it?
Well yeah too bad for those who don't want to pay for it but come one it's not a pay to win

It's only esthetic.

[Riepah]

Well yeah too bad for those who don't want to pay for it but come one it's not a pay to win

It's only esthetic.

How exactly do you "win" in a PvE-centric MMO? They could flat out sell you gil for $ and it still wouldn't be "pay to win". They could make housing plots cost real money instead of gil, and it still wouldn't be "pay to win". They could require you to pay to unlock new classes and it still wouldn't be "pay to win". Where does your acceptance of cash shops and RMT stop?

[BreathlessTao]

It's only esthetic.

When there are so many players in a game as there are in this one, customising our characters gets quite a lot of focus, for quite a lot of us. Because nobody wants hundreds or thousands of clones running around everywhere. That said, customising the characters' own appearance is already very limited (not really that many choices for any given race); the glamour system, especially most of the glamour-only items, is very much arbitrarily gated and/or overcomplicated already; and now they plan to make an "only aesthetic" cash shop (to a game that already has a subscription fee)... that's the bigger picture where it gets iffy. And it's only a matter of time before they introduce some achievement or other that pertains to collecting a certain number of mounts/minions, which number won't be achievable without one or two cash shop items, because it's a company that's wanting to make more money, right?

In addition: just because others are doing something, it does not necessarily make that thing right; communicating with and pleasing customers should be in balance with wanting make more money, and that scale feels like it's been slowly tipping in the wrong direction; last but not least, does it even need to be discussed why so many of us can't believe a word Yoshi says anymore?...

[tocsin]

I wonder what peoples reactions would be if they decided to, say, sell atma's in the cash shop. Things that can be obtained in game, at a low chance, or purchased if you don't want to grind.