Quote Originally Posted by Sigma-Astra View Post
How have people fallen for it? If people have $30 dollars to spend on something and they want to spend it, they'll spend it. They didn't fall for anything unless all of the sudden the price at checkout somehow bumps up to $60.

What people do with their own money doesn't affect you as a consumer. Someone spending $100 in a grocery store on select items that you may think might be too pricey for the brand does not affect you, someone spending $30 on a virtual whale still does not affect you either. It's not your place to judge or butt in.
Thanks for your repeated PSAs but just like you're vociferously defending people we're allowed to wish that scummy tactics like having a F2P style cash shop in a sub MMO didn't work.

People value money differently, obviously- some of us know when we're getting ripped off and don't support the scam, others don't care and just slap the bills down on the counter because they want the shiny. If people want to waste two month's worth of sub on a mount that's on them, but because they keep doing it we keep seeing more crap like paid DLC, cash shops + subs, "season passes", even loot crates and gachas. It makes the game worse to have it compartmentalized and priced just right to entice big spending in small amounts. I miss the days when I could buy a game and have the whole dang thing until an expansion pack came out. Now I have to buy a game and choose between getting jipped for content or jipped out of money. It sucks, and I have people who support those business models to thank for that state of affairs. XIV is just one example of it in the wider scheme of things.