Isn`t just vanity. Is 2 diferent experiences and thats why is bad.

[Jacost]

It's very different, lets not throw every situation into a black and white analogy. The concept of a cash shop is not at all synonymous with CE/OST/Limited Edition release and promotional events. To answer your question, yes, yes, YES i would have preferred they do that, or maybe in a veteran reward with my subscription. Because then it would have been established from the moment i bought the game that the content wasn't for me.

But being teased in updates with in-game content i have to pay to use and then pay to acquire? Sorry, that's a completely different scenario. You don't ever see people complaining about expansions or day-1 bonuses or attendance awards for this very reason.

You were able to upgrade your game to CE status at the mogstation anyway, and some hypothetical GOTY extras would probably also have been available as an upgrade in the same way. You still pay more money and get mounts & minions that you can't get another way, and you even do it on the same Mogstation, so I fail to see the difference. There was already stuff behind a paywall is my point; the bait-and-switch was indeed dickish of SE, but that's not the point of the thread. Someone could probably start a different thread over the transparency issue, and I would support that argument.