The whale mount is up on Mogstation

[Aster_E]

It has nothing to do with restraint. If the person has the funds and wants to buy a $30 mount, you have no business to butt your nose into their financial affairs and say otherwise whether you disagree in personally spending that much or not.

It has nothing to do with being more responsible with their money at all until you hear stories of people spending $30 on the mount instead of $30 on a bill, gas, or food. Then, we can argue the idea of fiscal responsibility, but you literally have no reason or say to push your ideals on their personal spending habits if they have extra income to do so that literally harms no one but your own jealously about the issue.

Way to miss the point of what I said.

You can buy something if you really, really want to buy it, as long as that thing is harmless. In the short run, buying one thing from a cash shop isn't going to do horrible, terrible things by any stretch, assuming you had the money you're right to spend (since it's yours). In the long run, it enables more of such sales to take place on top of the fees we already pay, and also on the back of systems in the game in need of more potential rewards (for example, the achievement certificates, which only have a couple items that weren't previously part of another system that was halted because it grew too big). To top that off, people are jumping on these new items as soon as they come out, because they're new. On the contrary to what you said, despite it somehow missing the point, that does scream "lack of restraint" on your part.

Furthermore, I did not say I want to dictate other peoples' expenditures. What I did say is that, if I were to suggest anything like a boycott or similar action, an action that would be taken up by we the consumers upon agreement with one another, would fall on deaf ears, and thus there would be no agreement, no action taken. The fact that you assume I want to come after your money or habits to keep you from making decisions tells me that you're being more defensive than you really need to be in this conversation. I don't think you intended that to be the case, but your words tell me this regardless.

So, really, I'm not attacking you for your decision to purchase a thing, just like I don't attack people who go out and buy so many packs of cigarettes or insane amounts of beer that doesn't even taste decent. I don't think it's a healthy practice, and I don't like businesses that take advantage of it because they know they can both get away with it and make more money in the process. You, however; you're fine. Don't take my disapproval of the cash shop as an attack on you.

I disagree. You jealous whiners who can't afford Mogstation stuff have no evidence that will happen.

Just having the money doesn't mean you have to buy a thing, and not buying a thing doesn't mean you don't have the money.

Those of us who DO have the money but choose not to blow it as soon as new things come out, however, do know this all too well in regards to business models. If a business model fails then it stops unless the owner is a dumbass bound, one day, to run for President that only other idiots would elect. If a business does something slimy and underhanded, but makes a ton of money off of it, then they are more like to keep going (eg., adding blatant cash shops to other fees already in place such as full subscriptions plus additional services, loot boxes to an extreme, etc.) until enough controversy picks up where the law has to step in. Then it becomes a definite problem, obviously. Right now? The cash shop is just greedy and I don't support it.