Online Store is Getting Worse!

[Midareyukki]

Exactly, paying a sub would imply you get more benefits, and some games did or do that (...)
But in this game the sub gives you nothing other than access to the game, and that's it, and it's slowly but surely starting to feel more than a "Fee 2 Pay" than a "Pay 2 Play" kind of deal, where yes there's a lot of stuff in game...but if you want the ACTUAL GOOD STUFF then you must cash out a lot of money.

...I'll... be the annoying rectal cavity that I am and bring up Hrothgar and stuff again...

People love dumping the verbal diarrhea that are "you knew what you were getting" or "you guys are the least played" to justify how Hrothgar and Viera pay for the same subscription as everyone else but are getting an inferior experience in comparison. While yes, technically speaking we all pay for the same service, and alts exist. Meaning that everyone here is paying for an inferior Viera/Hrothgar experience if they so choose. And while several excuses for the dev team are valid (odds are it might not even be their own decision anyway), some stuff isn't, and someone does need to take the blame. We're not the only things though, other areas in the game have failed to meet expectations. Housing comes to mind.

So when our own game already has some issues in quality assurance, items like these being sold to us for extra kind of looks like the next logical step. And they feel comfortable in doing so for large price ranges because they know some stooge out there will fall for the world's trashiest bait and open their wallets for about anything. I some streamers will definitely cough up the cash for this. I bet I can even name a few that will simply because of their usual cutesy aesthetic. And because of that, Square will only continue feeling motivated to pursue this. Next thing you'll see is them wondering "Oh, people bought something so low effort for a large sum, so it's okay for us to lower our standards to match".

And then you'll see the game itself have even worse quality stuff, if its cash shop items are this much of a throwaway.

To me, Pay to Play was never what this game had. You paid for the expansions, but also had to pay a fee. GW2 is also pay to play, but there's no fee to continue playing it. So we're paying a fee every month to keep playing, to keep our houses and also need to pay a fee to keep extra inventory. And our shop does this. Thanks I guess, at least you're optional and not FOMO, but I also kinda don't want you if you're this crappy!
Correction: You pay for the expansions in GW2 but it's otherwise free to play, even with the expansions having been purchased. Similar is ESO; you pay for the game and its expansions themselves, but you don't pay a fee for the game's continued run.

everything in life is "optional" (yes even food: never heard of diets?)

Thank god you added that "too much and too little" disclaimer, because that actually scared me for a second there xD
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