The FFXIV Cash Shop is greedy

[SamRF]

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You make some valid points here.

This isn't an argument against you but rather opinion: overall me and I'm sure many others will still be much more frustrated by simply looking at the sheer size of FFXIV Cash Shop (page upon page) and then comparing it with the WoW store, which might be the equivalent of a single Mog Station page. As I've stated before the amount matters more because WoW may have decided to offer many of potential Cash Shop items ingame instead (thus "for free").

As for exclusive items, that may be the case for minions but for mounts by far most were never available in game. I'm sure same goes for glamours (non seasonal), of which there are 0 in the WoW Cash Shop.

Further comment on seasonal and limited items (my opinion):

While I don't mean to be too much of a nag, I do dislike the fact that Seasonals can be bought form the Cash Shop. Part of what would be special and interesting about (seasonal) events is the fact that you can get items which will be unobtainable and exclusive whoever did the event at the time (or when it returns). The fact that these items simply become available in the Cash Shop takes a way a lot of the appeal (and immersion?) to me. It's no longer something you want for exclusivity, but rather just to save money.

In other games there are very often Cash Shop items offered for a limited time, because they know people like the exclusivity of having an item that is no longer available.