Quote Originally Posted by Voltyblast View Post
I mean no harm in saying this nor I want to put any guilt trip into anyone but...you asked for it: you were all defending the mogshop and saying that "it's only cosmetic" or "it's completely optional" and whatnot and so you kept buying and buying, to the point that major costumes and emotes are mogshop only now.

Sure the fix would be not to buy it but let's face it: you all will. You all want to. And you keep doing it...

But hey I'm not an hypocrite: I also did buy a few things from the shop myself when I wanted to but the keyword here is "few": I don't buy every single costume and emote that comes out like everyone do (I remember seeing at least 20 whales running around when it just came out: that's at least 400 euros/600 dollars in less than a few hours). But most of you do and they know you'll buy it so either stop buying or stop complaining, it's really that simple.

I mean sure they could also allow us to gain some sort of points like Wildstar did with their sub or SWTOR, giving you a few points to spend each month for the cash shop and allow you to get some free stuff if you wanted but let's be real, why would they put such a easy and accessible way to obtain items for free when people are more than willing to buy for such high prices?

Again I repeat for those who don't or can't read: I mean no harm or guilt-tripping in saying this, I simply wanted to give my two cents, but I really got tired of complains about the cash shop when the fault is solely in a serious case of loose pockets from the playerbase.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure there's two different groups here: the ones complaining, and the ones buying. I, for one, don't really care. I get the fact that people really want a lot more in game than is available, but I'm also used to games that don't give as much in game and make 75% of their cosmetic stuff on the store (eyes swtor). And yes, I know. "Other games do it worse doesn't mean this is okay" but to me, it's fine. I'm not limited in how often I can play, or what I can do. I don't have to buy additional leves or chances to run dungeons, I'm not stuck at 50% less xp until I buy a boost, I won't get an auto-skip UCoB if I drop $50. I can just get more fun/cute things. Gone are the days of "all cool stuff is in game" and I've accepted that, knowing that nothing is going to turn back time, it'll just close games down instead. I buy a lot of what goes onto the mog station, and I intend to continue to do so.

And that's why you can't exactly blame the folks who complain because while I'm sure some of them still spend on the mog station, it's the people who don't see a problem with the store and don't intend to stop paying just because other folks get up at arms that are keeping it running.