Fat Cat Coat & Pagaga’s Emote.

[Mimilu]

I'm happier to see the price increases occurring on optional items that I have a choice of buying rather than seeing them as an annual increase on the subscription.

That seems like a big jump in logic, especially considering they still have additional fees like additional retainers and the always constant flow of purchases for Fantasias. (●´ω｀●)ゞ

The previous outfits didn't include multiple pieces for one slot. This has pants and shorts. The streetwear set had two tops.

The Streetwear set has 6 items, compared to this one's 5. Granted, some of the $18 outfits only have 3 items, while others have 5. They really need some consistency with price-per-items I think. (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

[Jojoya]

That seems like a big jump in logic, especially considering they still have additional fees like additional retainers and the always constant flow of purchases for Fantasias.

How is it a big jump in logic? Inflation tends to cause prices of both goods and services to increase every year. Employees need a raise to cover the increases to their housing/utilities/transportation/food/etc? The prices of those items had their prices increased for similar reasons.

The money needs to come from somewhere.

Not every player wants extra retainers.

Not every player is a Fantasia addict, or GP dye addict, or whatever other item/service the game offers as an additional cost feature that you chose to name.

If players don't increase the amount they purchase those services/items and that income remains static, then the game needs to do something to cover increased business costs.

They could increase the cost of everything. Would you prefer that? Or is it better to do what they've chosen to do and just increase the price of newly introduced items compared to comparable items already being sold?

[Mimilu]

Not every player wants extra retainers.

Not every player is a Fantasia addict, or GP dye addict, or whatever other item/service the game offers as an additional cost feature that you chose to name.

If players don't increase the amount they purchase those services/items and that income remains static, then the game needs to do something to cover increased business costs.

They could increase the cost of everything. Would you prefer that? Or is it better to do what they've chosen to do and just increase the price of newly introduced items compared to comparable items already being sold?

And increasing the price of items that, to copy you, "not every player" wants/buys would magically fix that? （*´▽｀*）
That's also imply we know SE is raising their employees' pay and that the cash shop's profits are being funneled into doing that.