Quote Originally Posted by Voltyblast View Post
Initially the cash shop was supposed to sell items that WERE OBTAINABLE in the game but you could no longer get - like old event emotes, costumes, etcetera - and at the beginning that was it, but then they slowly started to add exclusive items that WERE NOT OBTAINABLE in the game, like new mounts, emotes and special costumes, and eventually it turned where almost all items that you could potentially get inside the game are just cash shop exclusives.
For example, the Odin Ex had a perfect chance to give the Sleipnir mount but nope, only cash shop...
Wanted the costume from Edda in POTD? Nope, cash shop.
We wanted a /lie emote for ages...and we got /playdead from the cash shop.

There are a few exceptions that are okay, like the Chinese dress and the maid outfit that were exclusives to promotional events, but you can see them adding new items that could've been easily in the game but nope, gotta cash in that dime!

And while we are at it, they could just allow us to gain those old items from the new events instead but they clearly want us to buy that 2 buck costume...on a single toon as it's not even account bound! So lazy!

PS: also, how could I forget the addition of the story jump and level jump potions?
I'm not sure where you got the impression that the cash shop was only for previously-acquireable-in-game stuff. That promise was never made, and Scion gear and Sleipnir were among the VERY FIRST things added to the cash shop. In fact, folks WEREN'T expecting in-game emotes and stuff to be there - there was quite an uproar when the previous year's event gear wound up in the cash shop instead of in the in-game event shops. No, it was always well-known that the cash shop would be a venue for EXCLUSIVE glamours, unobtainable any other way. It was the retreads that were a surprise.

As for story- and level-jump potions, it is true that those are not glamour. They are opportunities to pay SE to power-level you. Is this pay-to-win? Not sure... but I've played with people who have progressed by this method, and they didn't really feel like "winners" to me. XD