I thought cash shop funds were supposed to go back into development

[Johners]

This is a pure copium statement from tribalism aspect of the FFXIV because having such an extensive cash shop in a subscription MMO was always a key criticism from portions of the WoW player base for years (that also criticised Blizzard for doing the same thing). This game is literally the soulless cash cow of Square Enix and the money is absolutely not going back into the game to the extent that some people like to claim it is. Alternatively there's some real idiots on the dev team that can't develop their way out of a wet paper bag looking at how janky some parts of this game still are.

[nekuxdesu]

This is a pure copium statement from tribalism aspect of the FFXIV because having such an extensive cash shop in a subscription MMO was always a key criticism from portions of the WoW player base for years (that also criticised Blizzard for doing the same thing). This game is literally the soulless cash cow of Square Enix and the money is absolutely not going back into the game to the extent that some people like to claim it is. Alternatively there's some real idiots on the dev team that can't develop their way out of a wet paper bag looking at how janky some parts of this game still are.

I agree with what you said, I was being a bit facetious.