This is just appalling

[Kuroneko_Jutah]

Odin's horse and the red/white magitek armor would not exist without the cash shop? the white magitek armor ridden by a boss in the first 8 man dungeon in the game, yeah okay, whatever you say ...

It'd still cost dev time to code as a player mount. Time they weren't otherwise willing to pay for without the existence of the Mog Shop team.

There is a budget entirely independent of the primary development team exclusively for making the Mog Station items. They have to vet each one internally over whether or not it's profitable.

That's not even going into the fact that a huge chunk of the more recent (and expensive) cash shop items are imported from the Korean/Chinese versions of the game in the first place, so the pricing structure has to stay the same or Korean/Chinese players will throw a shit fit just like you all are doing right now.