Pay for your inventory.

[Adire]

You dislike that I called her out on her obvious assumptions and use of slipper slope fallacy, but not her snarky "Good for you, you can splurge on this" remark? You'll have to forgive me if I find double standard in that. Your link to a straw-man example is moot as my replies were not straw-man in nature.

Until you can prove that we have not had those cash shop updates that I mentioned, and they are not a trend of an increasingly expanding cash shop, expanding into functionality increasingly over cosmetic items even, I don't think you're making a good case for yourself by continuing to accuse me of using the slippery slope fallacy.

Also, it looked pretty strawman to me...

You'd have to be pretty shallow to think that this isn't a cash grab, tossing in storage and gating it behind an increased sub fee as the only way to get increased storage when we already have storage issues and an expansion is going to cram more items into the game. If that's not a slip towards a slope after prior cash shop updates, I don't know what is. It's a legitimate trend.

[SDaemon]

Until you can prove that we have not had those cash shop updates that I mentioned, and they are not a trend of an increasingly expanding cash shop, expanding into functionality increasingly over cosmetic items even, I don't think you're making a good case for yourself by continuing to accuse me of using the slippery slope fallacy.

Also, it looked pretty strawman to me...

Other than the increase in retainers which translates to more ventures going out, where is the expanding functionality coming from?

[Adire]

Other than the increase in retainers which translates to more ventures going out, where is the expanding functionality coming from?

(Much needed) Storage.
Greatly increased sales capacity (which translates into market domination).

Whoever pays SE gets to not have their inventory crammed by the onslaught of expansion items. There's no alternative to retainer subscription as increased storage, players will have to inconvenience themselves and make do with the already quite pitiful storage.

And the ability to pay SE more and get market domination abilities over those who don't is pretty self-explanatory. On Balmung we already have someone who floods the market with certain items (like grade 1 glamour prisms). Now they can do that even more.

Real world wealth inequality being brought into the game is a bad idea, especially in a sub game. That is why I do not like these increasing cash shop updates.