Who is Optional – A Question of Consumer Value

[Izsha]

Just because YOU decide that collecting minions/mounts/vanity is 'winning' doesn't make offering them in shop p2w anymore than deciding that the team who squeaks their shoes the most wins a basketball game. If that's how you enjoy playing, that's great, but making up your own mini game doesn't change the rules. SE decided what constitutes an advantage over other players. Not you. They have deemed items that increase the capability of a job to perform it's (se designed) function as the rule. Vanity gear is all stateless Lv 1 gear. Minions don't increase your str or gathering skill. Bought mounts don't run faster than free mounts.

SE has decided that aesthetic items do not help you perform any activity in the game. Just because you decide that collecting minions means you win doesn't mean SE agrees with you. SE makes the rules and the world and the law if the land is aesthetics are separated from any direct influence on any other aspect of the game and therefore give no tangible advantage. Buying things that have no influence on anything else means they aren't helping you win and SE decided that. You don't have to like it, but unfortunately for vaniteers it isn't your choice. It's SEs.