Quote Originally Posted by Abriael View Post
Interesting you'd name WoW, considering that it has a cash shop, selling mounts and more, exactly like Final Fantasy XIV.

Thanks for proving yourself wrong.
Everquest 1 and 2, FFXI, WoW for... 7 years?, EVE (PLEX maybe, but even that is regulated through the market itself) would say otherwise. If SE can't afford to keep their dev and servers up (which is BS since Yoshi himself said they only need 500k+ players to keep it alive) then they should raise the sub rate, not gate content behind a paywall. MMOs were able to operate no problem without a cash shop before. Stop making up excuses for SE, a multi-million dollar corporation isn't "your friend".

WoW is the exception to the rule when it comes to MMOs. Take all the ones that did copy WoW and look what happened to them? OH yeah, dead F2P stacks of garbage. And the question was "MMOs NEED a cash shop to survive", which off all examples I gave, WoW is the biggest example of that.