It's gone too far about the mog station SE

[Adrestia]

This topic again...

I'll reiterate what I have iterated in the past.

Just because you paid fees to get into the theme park; parking fee and admission fee (box/unit price and sub fee), does not mean that there won't be other costs inside the park (the game). Typically there's costs for food and drink, mini-games, gifts/souvenirs (mog shop items).

It really is not that big of a deal that you make it out to be considering there's plenty of businesses that operate on this model:

Disney World
Disney Land
Universal Studios
______________ (insert name of whatever theme/amusement/roller coaster park near you)
______________ (insert name of whatever golf courses near you)
Sam's Club, Costco, BJ's, _______ (any other bulk seller clubs that require membership)

Or any other business that charges you at the door and also has other fees inside. You don't like it, then don't partake in the optional services, but at the same time don't vilify/demonize people that choose to. This model isn't going to go away.

However, if you want to make a point that the asking price for some of the items is a bit exorbitant, that's fair and a fair point.

Did Disney enter an existing industry that had an established norm of providing these food, drink, and souveneir items as part of admission and then say “hey wait a minute, couldn’t we just hold it back and then charge for it instead?”

The software industry used to call this sort of nickel and diming “crippleware” and it was considered very distasteful. Now, we’ve entered a new era where there is a desire to be able to pay extra for extras. That’s fine and so far as the content is truly “extra” and not, at least in part, a replacement for what players expected to receive as part of the package, you don’t see too much resistance. But when things that used to be earned as ingame rewards (say, inventory space expansion) are now being monetized at massively inflated rates (a few kB of storage, that can only be used to hold the very select data set of inventory items in an online game, for $1/mo?), some people are going to call that for what it is. It’s not automatically jealousy or complaining about being unable to afford it or any of that nonsense. Some of us just find it ugly.