The FFXIV Cash Shop is greedy

[RareItems]

Meanwhile in Black Desert Online... Cash shop prices and the variety of "For Convenience" sales are on the rise, they made over 1 billion dollars in profit back in 2019 xD.

[Eldevern]

Meanwhile in Black Desert Online... Cash shop prices and the variety of "For Convenience" sales are on the rise, they made over 1 billion dollars in profit back in 2019 xD.

Sexy glamours... XD

[Skivvy]

Meanwhile in Black Desert Online... Cash shop prices and the variety of "For Convenience" sales are on the rise, they made over 1 billion dollars in profit back in 2019 xD.

I'm not exactly sure which way you're leaning with this point, but personally I don't mind cash shops being in F2P/B2P games that much. Kind of a necessary thing as they'd get no income otherwise.

Now...that's not to say all of those cash shops are created equal, and some of those games definitely do skew in-game RNG in bad and obvious ways to help push people towards the shop - that can be irritating. And I know how much everyone loves loot boxes. I've learned to just not buy those. X: But not all go that route.

But speaking of BDO, swimming was one of my great annoyances as far as in-game tweaks + cash shop perks go. Swimming normally in that game is awful. It's slow and clunky, and made me really dislike being in the water. Buuut, you can buy a fish costume that bumps up your speed, and it makes swimming feel totally normal and not obnoxious as all can be. THAT annoyed the crap out of me. lol. Swimming is something so incredibly basic, and to make it that unpleasant, unless you buy a costume, rubbed me the wrong way. :P I'm a simple person, I just want to be able to swim!

[MsMisato]

Meanwhile in Black Desert Online... Cash shop prices and the variety of "For Convenience" sales are on the rise, they made over 1 billion dollars in profit back in 2019 xD.

That may be, but I also expect a cash shop like BDO to thrive as it's not sub based and it does give you a lot of things for no money to boot with its attendance check-in and such.

SE/FFXIV on the other hand, while I have no mind paying for fluff like emotes, dances, glamours, and mounts from mog station, it still burns me I got to pay extra for inventory, and if I want a bigger Chocobo bag, I have to sub to an app on top of the regular sub with extra retainers for inventory.