So...about that white magitek mount

[Chayala]

I find it funny how they seem to have no money to hire devs, but put more and more half assed or already developed items into the cash shop. I think the issues people REALLY have is that the game doesn't have a very good wealth of content that is worth doing. FFXI for all it's faults (It had a great many) had just as many strengths. One of those was the fact that you had multiple ways of progressing AND could mix and match. The game really lost most of it's player base when everything kept getting out item leveled to a point that stuff became like this game. Relic? Gone. Mythic? Gone. Empy? Gone. Unless you wanted to put in UNGODLY amounts of hours in between fairly short patches OR spend ungodly amount of gil. And then have it totally killed again. So again, this game has a fair amount of content (Less than most games but it's not that bad). But most of it is irrelavent except for roulettes. So pushing cash shop stuff like this is what really seems to set people off. WoW did the cash shop stuff with almost no outcry(there was some) because when they implemented it it had a good pace of content coming out and LOTS to do now. Release WoD which has a little more content than this game currently and you see them release mounts for cash store only? Yeah that's where the outcry comes from.

On the fact of level boosting not being a bad thing? I can only ask if you are trolling. The problem with level boosting is you have NO idea what you're doing. Maybe if you level boosted and had to walk through "baby's first tutorial- how not to screw up your class" it would be fine. People in WoW didn't just "Accept" it. They just gave up and lost half their subs. I take it you want people to give up and accept the state of FFXIV the way that people did for WoW?(Although WoW had FAR more old content people could go through and have fun and with leveling up new characters doing quests and seeing how things changed were a benefit. Here after you story quest you're litereally stuck in the fate/dungeon grind when you run out of quests. Oh and leves.).

I believe the reason that people are pissed about this is 1) They're using assets that are mostly in game to make cash grabs when no real money is being put back into this game or content added that is relevant. Making cash shop expansions like this is what hurts if nothing else game image. That = bad. Cash shops for minor things = ok. But only if you have a game that is worth it. And considering how many emptyish servers there are and how poor the CS is with this game and in general at square. Also the fact that ya know, after the initial 2.0 story line it seems like they started reading the scripts for the other FF games(The good ones, not XIII) with a TVtropes page open. So now we have not Kain mind controlled (Oh hey. Like that's never been a main problem with dragoons. Hi Kain. But at least you were awesome enough for me to love ya anyhow) and the garbage that was Ramuh/Leviathan. Shiva was average at best and most of Heavensward was below even Tera's expansions writing, and I regret being dragged back here. But sure. Support the cash shop. Buy stuff when they can't be bothered to maintain the game correctly, fix massive in game lag for comcast users or provide content at the pace they said they would (3 months). I mean, it's not like they've gone against their word many times right?

Oh and if you're looking for non mobile games with money transactions Bravely Default had one where you bought extra turns lol. That was funny. I laughed thinking about the stupid parents who put their card info into their kid's 3ds and didn't watch it like a hawk.