Quote Originally Posted by Alleo View Post
With this you assume that anyone who is against cash shop is just against it because they are poor. Thats not true at all. I did buy stuff in the past (when I still believed that this will help the game..then I saw how we got less and less) and I could buy stuff now but I dont. I dont care if you do. The bad ones are still SE who are doing quite fine with creating items that people want to spend money on. Its the sad truth that as soon as a cool mount is shown the first question some ask is: Will this be in the mog station again?

In the end they should already earn quite a bit of money from the potions and old event items. I just dont see any need for them to sell exclusive stuff to us..especially when they already sell ingame items with real merchandise.
The crux of the argument, no matter how you slice it, is that youre already paying money for access to content in this game, and that payment should include EVERYTHING no matter what. This is a pretty poor argument on its face since the agreement for your sub is for particular access to particular content. Youre not being promised something and they not delivering - within reason of course. Second, you seem to imply that SE is (or should be) a virtuous business with selfless practices. It's not. Its like 99% of all businesses. Theyre out there to make money. So please lets dispense with the "SE can do Better and this is just greed!" angle and be real about this. The discussion isnt about what's good or bad or some moralistic view of what SE should be, its about is it a legit business transaction or a scummy fleecing campaign.

Considering the nature of items in question, It isnt fleecing you. It's just a side feature that you can purchase for funsies. It's not EA, or Activision, or Blizzard in these regards, who use crappy Lootbox RNG with cash transactions to create a Gambling proxy, or a company that designs a full game and chunks parts just to sell it to you at day one as "DLC". This is literally "Hey we made a cool side thing in our spare time. Interested in buying it?" This, mind you, is on top of the simple fact they provide us with like 6 or 7 seasonal events per year that have pretty nice goodies. So this is in the end a reasonable business strategy. Im not gonna sit here and get my knickers in a twist over it. Ill be reasonable customer and just think "Hmmm I just bought my steak dinner, so do I feel like getting that new cheesecake desert too they just put out, or pass."