Quote Originally Posted by Evangela View Post
phantasia, mounts, and minions have no effect to gameplay at all.
Mounts and Minions would require either new content, new sidequests or new recipes to earn them.
Even if the new minions were just added as part of rewards for maps, that'd keep people doing it.
For those players that only log on tuesdays to raid - yeah, a cash shop is all good because it doesn't affect them.
But there are other types of players - and they're not few NOR lesser players for it.

That's the gripe I have.
We subscribers have payed them to make content. They in return want us to pay to access a % of that content.
Look at it this way - you give me 10$ to buy groceries and cook you a meal.
With your 10$, I make a wonderful dish that you can eat, but if you want the delicious dessert I made (still with the ingredients bought with your money) you have to pay more.
You'd probably punch me in the face and eat the dessert lol

The sad thing is we can't do a thing - we're impotent because SE always wins.
People will keep playing because it doesn't affect them, and some people will buy the new stuff and they'll make profit which will drive them to make more exclusive cashshop content.
We're being robbed of new content and we can't do a thing except express our sadness.