Cash Shop: Stifling development.

[Jynx]

Where did anyone say they wouldn't work for anything in game?

Where did I say you wouldn't work for anything. I merely pointed out your willing to pay above and beyond your subscription for other things, nothing wrong with it, it's just not something I find to be condusive to the developement cycle.

As for you previous statement you would rather pay $5.00 than buy a 12m outfit I have a fun fact if you would like me to share it with you.

Fyi, the term stifling is usually akin with doom and gloom. Look it up sometime.

I do believe they are stifling development because as in my original post, everything that comes into the game now seems to go through the marketing team to see what content can be siphoned off for the cash shop. Do I think it's the developers themselves who want to do this? I doubt it but the higher ups want the extra cash on the bottom line. Personally I would bet that the community divide on this on the forums is something he doesn't want to see. No game developer wants to put his content behind a paywall.

I don't need internal SE documentation to make assumptions (It's all that they are just like anything you spout as well) But without documentation it's pretty hard for you to state that they haven't allready cut content from the game (Pro tip they have) with the intention of moving it into the cash shop.

My concern isn't that the game will fail hard because it has a cash shop, hell it will probably flourish for a few years if it went free to play (or for all time). My concern is that the so far the pipeline we have been seeing is that content that was normally developed into the main game experience is being pushed off to rake in extra cash from consumers (Dyes, mounts, weddings) were all advertised long before the cash shop even became something more than server transfers, retainers, and fantasia potions.

My concern is that the development team is in many ways shackled into what content they are allowed to introduce into the game and what gets regulated to the cash shop, it's a perfectly valid concern even if you support the cash shop. They are many variations of that support and they are all as valid as they people who would rather it not exist at all. I think all of us however deserve some transparancy from the developers to know what is in store for the cash shop in the future.