Subjective opinion is subjective. I can only think of one occasion when I was browsing through the Eorzean Collection and Garland Tools looking for items for a glamour just to find the item I liked best was from the cash shop.

Sometimes I think the only reason people go nuts over the cash shop items is because they're given such high visibility on the launcher and Lodestone compared to items obtained in-game. It's always funny to see the sudden rush of people wearing the latest mogstation glamour the day it comes out just for those glamours to almost completely disappear from view two weeks later because everyone has gone back to their glamours made from in-game items. If the mogstation glamours were so very superior as you say, that wouldn't happen.

Quote Originally Posted by rsod View Post
Everything is optional. Playing FFXIV at all is optional itself. But it doesn't cancels that it's very greedy move to locking so much content behind paywall while leaving so little options for free in a paid game with a paid subscription in the world where people are managing to make free to play games without pay to win and without locking content behind paywall at all.
This game has zero content locked behind any Mogstation paywall. None at all.

The only content in the game that can be accessed solely through Mogstation is the Ceremony of Eternal Bonding and even that is free. The paid options are for additional customization features for the ceremony.

Don't confuse content with the items used to customize that content. The glamour system is the content in this case. The only way to unlock it is to do a level 15 quest in Vesper Bay. There is no Mogstation paid option that will unlock the glamour system for you and allow you to bypass doing that quest.