Problem with "Optional" Items in the Cash Shop

[Yallaid]

All of the trials we have had so far dropped weapons that increased our iLevel. The only way they would put a trial fight on the mogstation is if they took out the weapons, or had the weapons not have an ilevel.

I see no reason why that would happen.

iirc the 2.x Hildebrand trials didn't drop anything besides the rewards tied to the Quest chains themselves, right?

I don't really disagree with you, they'd almost certainly never do this, but with the kinds of defenses people have for the Mogstation there doesn't seem to be any reason they couldn't and people apparently wouldn't get that upset.

[RaijinSupreme]

iirc the 2.x Hildebrand trials didn't drop anything besides the rewards tied to the Quest chains themselves, right?

I don't really disagree with you, they'd almost certainly never do this, but with the kinds of defenses people have for the Mogstation there doesn't seem to be any reason they couldn't and people apparently wouldn't get that upset.

Understandable, I just refuse to live in fear of what they could do when there has been no indication that they would. There's a ton of things that they could do to potentially ruin this game. If i stayed that paranoid, I'd probably just stop playing altogether

So far the mogstation has been purely cosmetic, and iirc it was the main reason why the EU was able to get their own servers. As long as things stay that way, then im cool. IF however they do decide to lock ACTUAL content (not dress up items and such, but fights, and anything with a cutscene) behind that paywall, then I'd get upset.

[Felis]

iirc the 2.x Hildebrand trials didn't drop anything besides the rewards tied to the Quest chains themselves, right?

Explain to the devs why a extreme version of the Hildibrand trials would be a good idea and then there will be weapons in it.