SE you put a really bad taste in my mouth every single patch

[Tupsi]

The chocobo/dresses that are part of the platinum wedding package have been shown as part of the wedding system in game before the cash shop even existed. They've been hyped as part of the marriage system since ARR was in beta.

Actually - Wedding wasn't even going to be introduced initially because of the controversy the "equal rights!" people stirred during beta. If you also want to be further technical, Yoichi Wada stated prior to XIV 1.0's release they were going to incorporate microtransactions into FFXIV. Heck it goes back to even 2001 when they stated they wanted a cash shop in FFXI but the Playoline infrastructure doesn't allow it.