Quote Originally Posted by Nel_Celestine View Post
Thank you for linking my topic, but really you must not have actually read much of it before posting.

Anyways, the reason I made it was because the cash shop exists regardless of what some players what and not everything can be brought into the game lore wise without some people shitting a brick. (I'm looking at a lot of the crossover event flamers) Since they would only do crossover events with new titles or special events and many MANY of us have been fans for a long time, something that might get that kind of content into the game is the cash shop because it would be a revenue driver.

Besides, 3 minions, a single mount and some old Halloween costumes is not going to break everything for everyone when a single or even several people buy them.
You understand that patch 2.4 was only the FIRST patch to offer minions/mounts to be sold via the Mog Station right? That it doesn't take much for a reasonable person to then predict that they will continue adding more items to the cash shop each patch. So that by even 3.0, it might now be 6 minions and 3 mounts you can buy via the cash shop. Furthermore, it seems like they are continuing to test the waters so to speak, and adding more items/content/perks to the cash shop. So where does it end? And more importantly, why are they making certain things 'cash shop' and others not? Why is a bluebird minion a map reward but not Thancred?

As to past event items: You should NOT be able to buy them. I understand that once again, this potentially ticks the collectors off...but the reality is, if you didn't play during last years Starlight Celebration (for example), then you really shouldn't have the rewards. Same with 'limited time only FATES' and events. If you can buy them, they aren't 'limited' also...yeah not going to lie (not that I need a green pumpkin head), but I can earn the 3 dollars to buy one in RL faster than I can sit through the quests/FATE I'd have to have actually cleared to earn them. So yeah I guess there you go, selling the holiday gear is the first step to 'pay to win' Afterall, it's gear that was tied to a quest, the player didn't do but has anyway...so now anyone with the pumpkin head could feasibly say 'this ruined the value of my clearing of the event' Yes, I realize it's just a pumpkin head...and no real benefit is attached to it...but again, BEFORE the cash shop option, the only way you'd have the hat, is to have actually played the content...no matter how 'easy' said content actually was, you did it.

As to the 'this way they can allow cross-over items w/o freaking out the lore purists' Again. Totally false arguement. Why? Because if they think the story/lore doesn't fit the game...they sure as heck don't think the gear/items/vanity do. If anything, they'd prefer SE actually tried to write a mini-story/lore episode to 'explain' the abnomaly than just go with 'some people were willing to buy Yuna's dress and hair so we thought, why not profit on it.' To be even more specific, the main reason some people were against the Lightning Returns crossover, wasn't just 'why the hell would she be in this game' but rather....'come on SE, this is obviously a thinly veiled commercial for your new game.'

Still, at the end of the day, if it doesn't somehow fit into this games lore/feel it really SHOULD NOT be added....via cash shop or otherwise. Because, either way, it still ends up in our world...and just because you're okay with it, doesn't mean those around you are. Everything added, no matter how it's added, should have a genuine place within this game....not be an after-thought and/or a money grab on the part of SE.