I can't read all of this. I can't believe you guys.

You're basically saying, "I'm totally fine that they want money for things they used to give us for free."

You know there used to be a vendor standing next to the quest NPCs for seasonal events who just let you buy all the past gear for a reasonable gil price. Then one day they were like "Nah, these idiots will pay real money for it. LOL" and most of the people in this thread are like "Yup, we sure will" or "Nope, we sure won't but we're totally cool that other people will."

I'm not really defending the topic creator because I disagree with a vast many posts they made, but the general sentiment I completely understand. The argument "if it wasn't in the cash shop it wouldn't be in the game" is completely absurd. It's either made to be in the game, or it isn't - and if it isn't then no one is crying about it because it doesn't exist.

This is my exact problem with the Glamour system. They know it's enjoyable to play dress up and so they lock our inventory expansion behind real world MONTHLY transactions. I might be ok with a 1x fee for a retainer, but nope - they want me to pay that fee all year round every year I play indefinitely. Come on. They know what many people enjoy - it's well documented what attracts people to games and what people are (dumb enough?) willing to pay for and they capitalize on it. You can say this is the inevitability of DLC and microtransactions - it certainly is (I predicted it almost 2 decades ago) but that doesn't mean people can't have strong opinions against it. Especially when services and items used to be given for free are suddenly locked behind price tags.