Fat cat mount?

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My problem is that we already pay a monthly fee to play this game, yet SE sees fit to nickel and dim us with new mounts/pet/ emotes in an over priced cash shop.

I see people say that a subscription game should not have a cash shop, that cash shops are only excusable when the game is free to play (and sometimes not even then). What people seem to have overlooked is that, when SE announces a new expansion and/or a new patch, they tell you the features that they are bringing in that new expansion/patch. Those features (and continued access to them) are the only thing you are paying them for with your subscription, everything else is extra stuff. If they give us extra stuff for free in game, then that's great, but that doesn't mean they're wrong if they want to charge for those extra stuff instead. We, as individual consumers, have to decide for ourselves whether the mog station has anything worthwhile to spend beyond the subscription cost.

And on that note:

Just because you can the money doesn't mean you should. The reason the cash shop is currently rampant with over priced items is people people keep buying them. I have no problem with people spending money on a hobby until it starts to hurt the hobby as a whole. I played Warhammer 40k until a few years ago and had to stop due to prices getting higher and higher because people just kept on paying them and defending Games Workshop for the higher prices. I am seeing the same thing here. The cash shop used to just be old event items at a decent price, but it is now bloated with over priced items while in game events get the leftovers.

You're right in how people's willingness to make a purchase allows SE to have a market to sell more items in the mog station. That is the reality that is taking place and it is not the responsibility of those people to keep the market price as low as you want them. If what SE sells is appealing enough for its price, then enough people will buy it. That's just the market at work.

That said, again keep in mind that these are all extra stuff (be they in game for free or in the mog station) that has nothing to do with what SE tells you are in the expansion/patch that you are paying a monthly subscription for. Thus, if you think the mog station prices are too expensive, then just be content with what you have in game because that is what your subscription pays for you, nothing more. And if you think you are not getting enough in the game for your subscription without including all those items in the mog station, then that's a decision you have to make for yourself.

For my part, I think the game gives me plenty for my subscription. That said, I do buy from the mog station, and the only reason why I don't buy more from the mog station is because I only stick mostly to account-wide items as I delete plenty of characters, just about almost as many as I create. I've even deleted a character that I spent getting all combat jobs and gathering classes to 70 and crafting classes to 68-70 and did plenty of mount farms. So I learned my lesson not to spend more real money when I can lose the items literally on a whim if I decide to delete a character.