Quote Originally Posted by MomomiMomi View Post
You're assuming I wouldn't enjoy what I'm doing to earn the items. I see no reason for glamours to not be tradeable. If I could trade for them, then I could do the content I enjoy most in the game, which is crafting and gathering, to my heart's content to earn the items. As the game currently stands, though, there is so little to spend gil on that I haven't put any effort into making gil for the past 3 years. The lack of things to buy in-game is hurting my enjoyment of the game very much.
I'm stating there are a lot of people who asked for "ANY ALTERNATIVE" to paying real money. This includes the fate grinds people hate so much or possibly rep grinds or achievement hunting.
That sounds like a different problem then what the cash shop creates though. Yes I am assuming the cash shop items wouldn't exist without the cash shop but we've already visited that counterpoint. Gil being valuable however is an entirely different discussion than "are things too expensive in the shop". I've heard it lamented that "Gil is worthless".. but then seen the same people raise up arms because the new MB manipulations outside the game in the app will be "pay 2 win" because you can buy armor that affects ingame performance... which would mean gil has worth? I'd rather not spiral down that hill in here.

Either way, you're complaining about a lack of content in the main game. I don't personally feel we've been denied items in the main game just so they can be put in the cash shop and we've been given no information to imply the team was "stolen" for the cash shop and therefore crippling item development. It may be naive to think they're telling us the truth about such a controversial subject but I've seen no evidence that hasn't been put together by the conspiracy factions that points to anything other than interest in profits and finding the "easy money". You have a most valid complaint: I need more stuff to spend my ingame currency on! But I don't think it has anything to do with the cash shop.