Why do people beg for cash shop stuff?

[Talraen]

Most of us don't care how you spend your money, we care that how you spend your money affects the game. The trend is showing that if you ask for it to be put in the CS then the devs seem to respond to you throwing cash at them. The people who are not throwing money at the cash shop feel like the minority and that their requests to put items in the game are being ignored. That's the major issue here. People are upsettl that their opinions don't seem to matter. People should stop with the name calling and try to see things from both sides. Most of the nice looking glamors are coming through the CS or promotions vs found in the game. While in the game you're getting a lot of reused gear models. It is starting to appear that my monthly sub doesn't carry the same weight as your extra CS purchases.

I think (well, hope) your worries are overinflated here. While we don't know the specific financials, we do know that the next expansion is getting a bigger budget, and people are using the cash shop. That certainly implies that the cash shop is helping the game.

But to your more important point about people feeling ignored, so far I think it's hard to make that case. As far as glamour (i.e., ignoring mounts and minions for the moment), they've historically added specific character outfits and old event glamours. There was also the wedding stuff which of course goes along with the wedding being a cash shop thing. But right now, the far eastern gear is an exception, and one with some justification, given its source.

If the cash shop remains limited to scion gear, old event gear, and special promo gear from other regions, I think everything will be fine. Once they start selling things like NPC gear or the stuff that has up until now been high-level crafted gear, that will be a bad sign. And several people have been asking for that specifically on the cash shop, which I don't agree with personally.

In short, I have no problem with them adding very special stuff to the cash shop, but I don't want to see it become the place where you buy arbitrary glamour. (I'm not too hopeful on that front, to be honest.)