Quote Originally Posted by Remyogic View Post
Your stated definition is true of games that have a hard-wall of progression that can only be circumvented by paying real money. Since there is no hard-wall to progression in FFXIV, the definition of P2W is EXTREMELY subjective and nearly impossible to apply to this game. It has nothing to do with "because it's SE".
Paying money for bag slots is pretty common in other games, and now SE gives you two different ways to do it. But that doesn't count because reasons. The only question at this point on this game is just how far they'll go with it, the direction is pretty clear.