Quote Originally Posted by Johners View Post
Except FFXIV is already the soulless cash cow of Square Enix. It's a massive, consistent money maker that's monetised via game licenses (per platform), a monthly subscription fee as well as an optional cash store that's much larger than even many F2P titles.
And yet nothing that the Cash shop offers even remotely grant player meaningful advantage over others considering even level boosts and Story skips don't really mean anything considering the game keeps relatively consistent amount of side content throughout. Despite existing for well over a decade said shop never reached the level of integrity with the game that Blizzard's cash shop did with their WoW tokens or EVE Online did with their Plex (them selling that is the reason why you can attribute real money value to basically everything in that). So I can't really agree that FFXIV can't get much worse because it can. It can get way worse