Emotes in the cash shop..

[Adire]

Yeah, before they had a special vendor that sold old event items. I too used that vendor for the first years event items since I started playing close to when ARR was 1 year. If I recall the shop first came to life due to the huge demand on the option to buy Fantasia potions, and I guess that later they wanted something to fill the shop.

The fantasia thing was a really disappointing read for me :/. I wish people had been more thoughtful about ways to get fantasia in game, if not exclusively, then as an option at least.

Especially since my last MMO, The Secret World, allowed you to use a nice big chunk of in game money to change anything you wanted about your character. About the equivalent of a million gil or so I'd say. They also had the option to pay real money (about 4 dollars or so IIRC) to buy a coupon to do it.

I really wish we had the option at least to spend gil to fantasia.

SE is not even close to that point. The only "armor" that they've ever released in the cash shop ARE obtainable in-game when they were released during the events. If you missed it, that's your problem. Sure, vanity is important to you, I get it. As for those dyes, the cash shop isn't the only way to obtain it. You can get those from retainer ventures. Go google it.(you don't mind hardship, yes?) The only thing left are the minions, which are NOT vanity, but if you still want them, go get it.

They aren't there, yet. Other MMOs didn't start at their points immediately either though, yet they got there. How? Because people turned a blind eye to the slow steps they took towards that point. The same thing will happen here if allowed. I'd prefer not waiting until it's too late to start voicing discontent, personally.

The dyes are actually cash shop exclusive, so I think you're misinformed. Metallic red, blue, etc are not from ventures.

The minions may not be quite vanity, but they are collectible, and instead of being associated with "I spent 2 dollars on this", could have been made to be associated with "I spent 500,000 gil on this", or "I killed 500 morbols for this", etc.