Cash Shop: Stifling development.

[Xystic]

P2P MMOs these days provide MMO gamers with the choice to choose what features they want to invest in. Back in the hay day, we paid full price subscriptions regardless of how many features we used and didn't. Now, if you need the extra space you can tack on additional retainers fees to your subscription and if you don't, you don't have too.

If your big into vanity items, you can buy them from the cash shop and if your not big into vanity, you can just stick with your core subscription.

The only time we need to complain about a cash shop in P2P MMOs is when they start producing F2P cash shop items, items in which become completely necessary in order to progress the core subscription forward.

P2P Cash shops allow MMO gamers the choice to pick and choose what features they want to invest in on top of the core subscription. Its very much like building a PC now. You get the PC case and put in what you will use and what can be subpar or dropped out. If we wanted FF14 to include all things in to the core subscription then its very much like buying a prefabricated computer, expensive and loaded with a lot of components that maybe junky or not even needed.

Its a step at saving you money so you don't pay for what you don't use and when things do come up that you like, you can buy them with all that saved money.

[Cutie_McSnuggles]

P2P MMOs these days provide MMO gamers with the choice to choose what features they want to invest in. Back in the hay day, we paid full price subscriptions regardless of how many features we used and didn't. Now, if you need the extra space you can tack on additional retainers fees to your subscription and if you don't, you don't have too.

This would only apply if every aspect of the game had an extra cost. Should I get a discount if I never do coil? How about if I only want to level one class? How come only people interested in vanity have to pay extra money?

[Kuolema]

This would only apply if every aspect of the game had an extra cost. Should I get a discount if I never do coil? How about if I only want to level one class? How come only people interested in vanity have to pay extra money?

Because its easier to piss off a minority of players (vanity) then to raise sub prices and piss off everyone. Think of the vanity crowd as the red headed step child of the family.