Quote Originally Posted by Vstarstruck View Post
You shouldn't be selling power of any form, retainers and app gives you more selling power, gives you increased gil gain opportunity over someone not buying the extra fees. Not really fair to try to "encourage" spending on micro transactions on undercut spam, in an environment that promotes undercut spam (i/e provoking those whales to whale on this)
So, as I said earlier, it is actually a discussion about mechanics and semantics. If they got rid of retainer market privileges and just made it by character or by account, you could still make more characters or more accounts. So "power" would always be sold regardless; it's only a question of how tedious/time-consuming it would be. What seems to have been the straw that broke the camel's back for you is just that the app makes it faster/more convenient than the in-game means, plus Square Enix is marketing this point specifically, and so you feel like people who want to be competitive on the market are being "provoked" into spending on the app. So, it's about the "accessibility" and "ease" of the specific mechanics and how obvious/blatant they are doing the "upsell." This is honestly what most "pay to win" discussions boil down to, in the end.