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

[Edellis]

But yet again, noone ever complained about the digital CE upgrade. I wonder why

...because, no matter how many times people try to make this situation analogous to the cash shop...fundementally it isn't. That's why it doesn't get the same response.

here again you fail to see the point.

Devs create a game. They make it with an objective in mind, which is telling a story, creating challenging raids, etc etc. And they add extra fluff for vanity inside.
Therefore, the purpose of the game is to tell you this story the devs made especially for you.

first off, that was almost entirely a troll post.

Second, the point you're failing to see is, if the devs only wanted to tell you an awesome story, they could have just cut out the programmers, sound directors, hired Yoshida for some cover art and sold a novel. But they didn't they made an entire game. The objective, the main objective, the only true objective, especially as an P2P MMO, is for you to play the game. Everything they made is utterly pointless if this doesn't happen, because now they aren't getting paid.

You may not believe this, but everything in the game encompasses "gameplay". You may PERSONALLY play the game and keep playing for your own reasons, but to cut out little pieces (vanity, raid content, lore content, main story content) as if they are mutually exclusive features makes no sense. This is literally the only reason cash shop exists, because the content they put there is technically part of why you're playing the game, but if you weren't drawn in by the rest of the content you wouldn't even be subscribed to it.

stuff

I hate animal crossing, so, yeah, stuff