Cash shop confirmed

[Aegis]

No they're not unless you can prove right this very second that Yoshida stated he will no longer add items and content to the game and only add items to the cash shop.

Go on, I'll wait.

Up until 2.4 all content except for Fantasia was available in game or as a bonus for a r/l product.

That's something like a ratio of 99,999:1

Wanna see which way that ratio goes after Cash Shop is introduced. Our subs are buying us less of the game. By your logic, they could have charged for each and every item released since V2 and that would have been fine, because our subs were still getting us the same stuff as they always had, right?

It'll never happen where you see items that give any kind of advantage what so ever.

While I'm thinking, this is wrong.

At level 1, fresh into the game. Who has higher stats, the person with just the weathered gear, or the person with weathered gear + a ring with defence+1 on it?

Yes, the advantage is negligable. Yes, it will be gone after the person levels up and gets enough gil to fill that ear slot, but until then, the player who bought items has an advantage.