Quote Originally Posted by BristolRuss View Post
There were luxury items before the cash shop came along as well, but they were all obtainable with effort instead of opening your wallet. The cashshop is a shill pure and simple.

What they should do is just make cash shop items sellable on the market board. That way people opposed to the cash shop can get it for gil if they want (albeit for a very high fee), and the person selling gets well paid. It would also have the benefit of fighting illegal RMT by keeping the RMT in-house. Why go to some shady site and give them your credit card details for some gil when you can just buy a Cloud bike and sell it on the MB for 150m.
No!

People who don't like the cash shop don't need to get anything from it. They shouldn't get to use their overabundance of gil to get something that would normally cost real world money.

At the same time, people also shouldn't get to use their overabundance of real world money to get extra gil that should be acquired via gameplay. If they want to risk going the RMT way, then that's their problem.

I dislike the idea of WoW token and I hope nothing similar to that ever comes to FFXIV.