Cash shop pricing is getting a bit much...

[Alleo]

Maybe we should stop asking them in the first place?
Do we really need every crap the KR, CN clients add to theeir game for 0 reasons at all but beign sold for bucks to their playerbase? Some have really questionable taste

One man`s trash is another man`s treasure. At least if they put them in the mog station (I understand that they do that for something that comes from some other version or did cost money in the other version too) we do have the chance to get them. If its your taste or not does not really count for this imo. (Especially since we already have trash [imo] that is the yokai mount)

I think it's because, when they first added the shop, it mostly/only contained returning event items, and they've kept those at a lower price point. Then, after people requested they also bring over the Chinese exclusive items, they started introducing new cash shop exclusive items at the higher pricing tier (while continuing to add seasonal rewards at lower price points). So because all the "new items" are more expensive, it creates a perception that prices have gone up.

It's also often the case that the new items are added to the cash shop during patch lulls (rather than coinciding with patches and seasonal events as the others often do), which draws even more attention to these new items and their prices. Obviously introducing these items at that time is a marketing strategy (since it doesn't get buried by other news), but I think it's also partly what's fueling this perception of an increased focus on the cash shop (since it's right during those lulls when people think "they could have added this to the game!").

IMO the event items are far away from being cheap. Anything that is over one dollar for a simple wallpaper is too much, especially since Yoshida said that they dont want to earn money with that move (suddenly putting the event stuff in the mog station and not leaving them ingame) but give others a chance to own them..yet when you look at those prices..I mean those are items that are already ingame. Thus not something that was just created for cash shop.

so.. don't.

That "argument" can be used to anything. You dont like Eureka? Just dont do it. You dont like content x just dont do it. Just because we have the option not do it/or buy it doesnt mean that we should be fine with that.

It’s wrong and entitled to demand an item for reduced price or for free when someone else had to pay for the same thing. These regional items weren’t passed out for free in their respective regions, the Chinese and Korean players had to pay for them in some manner so asking SE to give us those same items for free goes beyond the pale.

How would you feel if SE designed some NA or EU themed armor and made us pay for it (either directly or via a promotion), but then they turned around and mailed it to all of the other regions for free?

I can understand that it would be too much to give us that for free if the other version had to pay for it. But why exactly is it entitlement if someone wants to pay less? Its a digital item. And in the end are you entitled too if you buy something for less in real life? Do you go and say that you want to pay more because customer/country x had to pay more? I am quite sure that most wont. And thats about real existing items that may cost the shop money even after creating it.