Yoshida did not make this game pay-to-win. The players did. *NOT a cash shop thread*

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Is it just me or did all the NyarukoW offensive replies in this thread got totally deleted?
So... It mean one additional thing!!!!!!!
If it's the case, I don't know who you are kind Moderator but I wish you a very merry Christmas and an incredible happy new year to you (and it is coming from the bottom of my heart, thanks <3).

Back on the thread, OP you should not confuse yourself and mix things, no offence, being able to sell and trade the wedding rings formula for gils was an obvious mistake in the cash-shop, blaming the mercenary community to be the "original bad seedling" of the problem is a false and dangerous theory.
Also,

Aren't such groups only really around because the developers insisted on a simplistic system for just about everything?

Since beta I've seen hundreds of threads asking for more complexity in class and fight mechanics, and they always get met with the same "That would be too complex for players" style of response. Honestly, when you make a game with very little complexity, it's just begging for people to be carried through it. I think the root of the problem is the developers "Let everyone reach max level really easily" mentality. When you can reach Coil by doing nothing but spamming AoE in FATEs of course you're going to have people who can barely function in endgame content and then look to buy wins...

^ This is probably one of my favourite quote in this forum, if the game was more harsh in the "learning process" for new players, we wouldn't have such huge mercenary community in game