Just say no

[Wilford111]

I'll download the app and pay for the premium plan.

Because who cares about content that's being stripped away from players as long as YOU can pay for it right?

[Rinuko]

Because who cares about content that's being stripped away from players as long as YOU can pay for it right?

Sorry what content is being stripped away?

[Wilford111]

Sorry what content is being stripped away?

You don't think SE can afford all those mogstation items to be in the game from just our monthly sub alone? You don't think SE can afford making an app that's totally free (or heaven forbid, pay only once) that players get everything from?

Supporting this business model means it will continue. If everyone saw the mogstation for what it was, and not as many players purchased things from it, do you think SE would add more and more stuff to it like they do now?

Look at how much content we're getting from our patches nowadays. Pretty sure we're getting less, not more. But how many more ways are there for us to pay SE additional money on top of our sub?

[Remedi]

We are not getting less

[Vhailor]

Sorry what content is being stripped away?

Any and all content that would have been developed by a company more focused on maintaining a strong subscription business rather than creating additional revenue streams with half-assed gimmicks. Any cash cow like this is something a company will seek to monetize in some fashion. In the old days, before WoW opened Pandora's Box, subscription-based games were monetized by investing in the content, creating the most compelling experience possible so as to retain a large number of subscribers on a consistent, long-term basis.

Now, SE has abandoned that market path, because they've realized there's a significant number of people with more disposable income than sense who are willing to pay for exclusive Glamours, mounts, extra Retainers, emotes bundled with figurines, etc. It's cheaper and easier to develop this content than to actually build out the core game, and obviously in SE's eyes, the benefits from exploiting consumers in this fashion are worth pursuing. This costs players the content that would have been developed under the traditional monetization model, a model that results in a far better game than the current one does. Effectively, we're suffering because SE as a company is willing to exploit consumers, and there are plenty of consumers who are only too happy to be exploited.

[ko_]

I"m not going to defend the app. But the cash shop items would not have been made if the cash shop didn't exist. that's a fact as the cash shop devs are not the same devs who make our content. So saying the cash shop is killing our content I feel is false.

[Rinuko]

I understand and agree less dev time is put to the game if they going to maintain mogstation and the app on same dev team rather than hiring more people but i believe they have dedicated devs for this already.

However nothing to my knowledge been stripped away.

[Aivi_lo]

I"m not going to defend the app. But the cash shop items would not have been made if the cash shop didn't exist. that's a fact as the cash shop devs are not the same devs who make our content. So saying the cash shop is killing our content I feel is false.

No, they would have been in game items /rewards :/

[Remedi]

No, they would have been in game items /rewards :/

Technically speaking some of the emotes are ripped from in-game animations of our characters

[Kallera]

Upon closer reiview, I don't think I'm going to use the app. I don't play the game enough for it.