Cash shop confirmed

[Kaurie]

No idea. I thought she was just unsure of the increased budget for Stormblood, not where it came from. I always figured cash shop sales were just icing on SE's cake.

Ah yeah, the line of replying posts started with implying the budget for the expansion was due to the cash shop. I just don't think that's the case. I agree with you, it's most likely just icing on SE's cake.

[SessionZero]

Ah yeah, the line of replying posts started with implying the budget for the expansion was due to the cash shop. I just don't think that's the case. I agree with you, it's most likely just icing on SE's cake.

Nah, I wouldn't attribute the increased budget to the cash shop. I'd say the most likely scenario is sub numbers plus more faith from SE's top brass in the profitability of the game contributed to the increased budget.

[MrPresident]

It's sad reading that collection of comments from players in the opening post. They predicted how the cash shop would develop with total accuracy, and were slammed down for weeks on months on end by the deniers that it wouldn't go that way. Now that it has, I wonder how those people feel. Have they sided with those opposing the cash shop because it's grown in a way they said it wouldn't? Or have they just continued defending the double dipping and content stripping?