So what if people sell platinum and gold plans for gil?

[Shougun]

Didn't WoW CS open in 2013?....that like 8 years after game launch....by that time they already had tons of dedicated fans who had already spent thousand hours in the game.
This game is one year old. Almost every other P2P that started double-dipping players with a CS that fast, failed miserably at it and enraged its customers (SWTOR, Aion, Tera, Rift, etc)

Also, someone please correct me if wrong (only played a year or so when the shop was activated), but I thought blizzard had less items on the store and did not have any items that could be resold in the game. (Although same company, their D3 AH idea was a train wreck lol).

[Thyranne]

Also, someone please correct me if wrong (only played a year or so when the shop was activated), but I thought blizzard had less items on the store and did not have any items that could be resold in the game. (Although same company, their D3 AH idea was a train wreck lol).

There was a pet (forgot its name) but they removed it recently.

[Vaer]

Also, someone please correct me if wrong (only played a year or so when the shop was activated), but I thought blizzard had less items on the store and did not have any items that could be resold in the game. (Although same company, their D3 AH idea was a train wreck lol).

I know there was a pet from the cash shop that could be put on the AH, the Guardian Cub. Not sure about anything else.

People got around it even before that happened, though. They would trade 60 day time card codes or 30 day gift codes for gold. There would be trust involved since it wasn't officially supported but people did it.

[Thyranne]

I know there was a minion from the cash shop that could be put on the AH, the Guardian Cub. Not sure about anything else.

People got around it even before that happened, though. They would trade 60 day time card codes or 30 day gift codes for gold. There would be trust involved since it wasn't officially supported but people did it.

YES that was its name! But they removed it from the store recently. About the 60 days this was extremly common: "buy gametime with credit card, receive the code, sell it for gold then cancel the purchase (call your credit card)", this way you stay with the gold and the money.

I agree with you that SE has to be careful about how much they implement into the cash shop without going overboard. This patch they splurged on the cash shop. We'll see how much they implement in future patches. I'm going to reserve judgment if their taking it too far until I see what else they'll do with it. The seasonal gear can be excluded since you have to the opportunity to get this in game for free anyway as long you're playing during that time.

They should have only added seasonal items (that were previously available). It'd have been perfect to me.