Quote Originally Posted by Jaquan View Post
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
That's not how that works. Apart from SE triple dipping they sell you glam in a game where glam is the endgame. Where they sell whales a whale. lol Just because you can't outright buy Gil doesn't make it less exploitative since looking cool (whatever that may end up being) IS more than enough motivation in an MMO. And the cash shop is now accessible from the game and you still see retainers being advertised when you log in. Oh and retainers DO give you an advantage. Buy why solve a problem for free when you can have people pay for the solution. I don't see SE handing out free retainers either.