Quote Originally Posted by gorror View Post
For the most part every game that has added a cash shop starts out small, then expands. Every update will add more and more to the cash shop that could (would) have been available in game. Then there is always the risk of them pushing the envelope, and considering SE is a corporation that is interested in maximizing profits, they will.

This will eventually lead us to where wow has gotten, buying max level characters and xp/tombstone potions.

One of the many reasons i enjoyed this game was the fact that there was no cash shop, but now i will probably save my sub and just go to GW2.
Let me add to this. Another thing that really really bothers me is something I call "cash equality". I pay ~$120 for a year's worth of FFXIV. When the cash shop keeps expanding, its likely I will be paying $120 or triple that for every item in the shop. On one hand we have all the content in FFXIV my $120 sub can buy and on the other we have the dozens of items that cost the same thing. Its madness!! It would be great if someone from SE could go on record as saying all the cash shop proceeds are going back into the development of FFXIV. In other words, if the dozens of items in the cash shop directly meant hours and hours of more content in FFXIV proper, I would be happy. Oh and fixing personal housing to make it truly personal. That would be good too.