Quote Originally Posted by kyuven View Post
Rather, the logic SHOULD be: if it weren't for a cash shop, these items wouldn't be available at all.
You really believe this, don't you?
What about the items that -were- available in-game and are now taken out to be sold on the cash shop? Until this Halloween event, you've been able to buy past seasonal items at the vendors. Now they're gone because they know they can get away with selling them for real money. The cash shop is not some saving grace that's going to give us more content, and I really feel sorry for anyone with low enough intelligence to believe that. It's only going to gate more and more content behind real life money, when it should have been in the game that we pay for with our subscription.
And yes, I do think it's wrong to do a pseudo cash shop with the soundtrack and art book minions. It's the same thing, but at least it's on a much lower scale than this.