Cash shop confirmed

[Fyrebrand]

(The Magiteks in ARR are from VI's world. We're getting Triple Triad and the Golden Saucer, 2 things from FFVIII and FFVII's world. It's too late to be concerned about fan service. That's just ignoring most of the creatures and bosses in this game being from other FF games, namely III, XI, XII and XIII.

The Magitek Armor originated in FFVI, but it's worked into FFXIV's story and fits the kind of technology that the Garleans regularly employ. There are quests to explain how you come to obtain it, and it features heavily in the final dungeon and cutscenes. They found a way for it to make sense and belong in FFXIV. That's a huge difference from FFXIII's Lightning just showing up in the game for no reason at all, and injecting the game with FFXIII costumes and weapons. Magitek was a well-implemented reference that became its own thing, whereas Lightning is a sleazy promotion stunt that adds nothing to the game. You could very well have never played FFVI, and assume that Magitek came from FFXIV. But without knowledge of FFXIII, everything involving Lightning in this game makes no sense and is confusingly unfitting.

Hopefully when Golden Saucer shows up in FFXIV, it can be similar in spirit to the original but not just the exact location from FFVII dropped into FFXIV without rhyme or reason.