Online store prices are outrageously high!

[Darsien]

Just stop trying to compare actually worthless digital goods tied to a subscription of a single game to things like food or other physical goods. It doesn't work, at all. Pointlessly expensive bags still have a bill of materials and manufacturing costs every single item.

Most of the things on the store were already in the game in some form. The only difference from a F2P at this point is that event items are free the first time. The amount of apathy towards this, they could double the subscription and charge for dungeons and it would be accepted.

It's just a luxury, don't complain! -Subscribers to a game that in itself is a luxury.

I'd advise against trying to tell people what they should value their own purchases as. That's a very subjective thing. Especially when you obviously don't know what the development chain within a company is like. Tons of man hours, work by several different teams, all of that is just at the end of the overall process. Those things cost money. Or have you forgotten that behind those materials and manufacturing that there is a common element with that expensive hand bag and something you can buy in game? The human doing the work at acquiring materials, operating the manufacturing machines and building, and the dev team, art team, marketing team, PM, etc. Or have you forgotten that the human behind all those things is getting paid and has a cost associated?

Wouldn't be surprised. Someone who is arrogant enough to dictate (as fact) what the subjective value of something to strangers is probably the same type of person that doesn't see a person behind the Starbucks apron.