Quote Originally Posted by Zorzi View Post
We already pay a subscription to support the game and have access to everything. If you're not getting access to the entire game, and it's apparently in such dire need of money that retainers and exclusive items need to be sold for cash, then what's the point of a sub? May as well make it F2P, get more of that sweet whale money.

Cash shop in a subscription game is double dipping and greedy.
Quote Originally Posted by KillyBamp View Post
White Knight's gonna White Knight. Items ARE content, you are deluded if you think otherwise.Hey you and your blinkered ilk go ahead and defend SE for doing this, keep being taken advantage of by paying extra for stuff that has been cut from every patch and put in the greed shop. Go ahead and keep telling players like myself who aren't prepared to be mugged off to go ahead and leave, because the less people there are paying sub's ensures the longevity of the game right?
Get a clue- people will leave over this, others like you who don't mind being ripped off would stay anyway if there wasn't a cash shop
please, people, look at some of the previous posts. both of these points have been brought up no less than 300 times a piece, and have been discussed to death.

I liked the restaurant analogy from 10 pages ago the best. The game is like a Chinese buffet. Your sub buys you a seat at the table and a standard meal of what is on the buffet lines. additionally, there is now an a-la-carte menu available to you for an additional cost, if you want something special.

from day one, your sub never guaranteed you access to everything. can you get a fat chocobo in game for just your sub? didn't think so...