Cash Shop: Stifling development.

[Jynx]

The one thing that I always think about is that this cash shop content would have possibly made it's way into the game and could have made some content have more lasting goals instead of the gear grind.

New hairstyles? Why not buy them for Allied seals/Mythology/Poetics/Getting top tier with certain beast-tribes, achievment rewards (Tank hairstyle go!) They can still sell these things on the shop but give other people things to shoot for. I just don't get why we want them to lock this behind a paywall, optional is fine but forcing players to cough up for vanity items in a game we allready pay for with no alternatives is just a waste in my opinion (Maybe not to SE's wallet).

[Tupsi]

The one thing that I always think about is that this cash shop content would have possibly made it's way into the game

As said - If this were the case it would have been introduced. Odin's horse for example, he been in the game for a year - He has his own loot trade system in the game for a year. It would have been added to Odin Mantles if they had any intention on introducing it before they made the cash shop.

Where would the minions they sell come from? There's no more Scion quests as their storyline merged into Binding Coil after the main 2.0 and 2.1 scenario was done, as 2.2-2.4 rarely dealt with them but rather the company they setup.

New hairstyles?

Is 99% of the time added automatically to the CC and 1% of the time is quest related content, e.g Lightning/Snow's hairstyle.

As long as we have subscription, there shouldn't be a cash shop.

Read the terms. Also tell Blizzard this. Tell any company this as well:

"Hey (company), players are willing to buy stuff from a cash shop..but don't do it! Don't make money because that's bad!"

If players weren't willing to buy DLC, half finished games ("early access") and use a cash shop, it would have died out 7 years ago.

Think about that.