Problem with "Optional" Items in the Cash Shop

[Yallaid]

How do cosmetic items in the shop make people play less? That doesn't even make sense.

What? it's simple -- imagine if the birds and ponies were only available in Mogstation. Bam! no one does old extreme primals outside of Wondrous Tails, which didn't even exist until several months ago.

That's how taking stuff that might serve a purpose in-game and locking it behind a paywall can affect who plays the game and how much time they spend doing it.

[RaijinSupreme]

What? it's simple -- imagine if the birds and ponies were only available in Mogstation. Bam! no one does old extreme primals outside of Wondrous Tails, which didn't even exist until several months ago.

That's how taking stuff that might serve a purpose in-game and locking it behind a paywall can affect who plays the game and how much time they spend doing it.

well technically, that's not likely to happen either. The birds and the ponies is the only reason why the replayability for the trials are so high. If they were available in the mogstation,

1) they probably wouldnt be as sought after, and wouldn't hold the same prestige they do now, and
2) its another reason why people would stop paying the subs, which would lead to less money being made by SE.

So essentially, its less profitable for SE to put those things, and other collectables like it, in the mogstation at any point.