Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
Times have changed. It isn't unusual at all for businesses to provide optional products in addition to the base product that they're offering. Quite a lot of people are perfectly fine with optional items being sold. At this point, it appears to just be a very vocal minority who are opposed to such things. Many of whom appear unwilling to do anything beyond blame consumers and developers instead of putting their money where their mouths are and walking away completely from the business practices they find so supposedly abhorrent in the first place.

In addition, let's not pretend as if the cost for game development has not increased over time even though the monthly subscription fee has remained roughly the same price.
I pointed this out earlier. I said that our monthly sub gets us ton of ingame obtainable outfits and armors. For only $12.99 a month for the basic sub (what I used to pay for EQ when I played in 2001), or $14.99 a month for regular access. And I mentioned that some of us pay that much for a single mount or outfit, and know people who would spend hundreds of dollars in cosmetics. And explained that for every outfit they make purchaseable, they get dozens that are available normally in game.

Their reaction is to compare Mogstation to Assassins and Human Trafficking.

Literally that's the opposition. It should NOT be taken seriously, it should not even be debated. They are trolls or someone who is severally emotionally out of wack in this discussion.

At the end of the day, the discussion is mostly irrelevant. My wallet speaks far louder than these futiles cries of using mogstation as evil.