It's so Awesome to See All the Cool Stuff Are Now in Cashshop.

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It’s almost like they’re surprised they put stuff into the cash shop, there is still plenty of gear, mounts and minions etc in the game which you can earn in game unlike say WoW, ESO, BDO, Blue Protocol etc etc

Bit of an off-topic for the thread itself but I find the inclusion of WoW weird in this list because it has 1053 mounts from different activities, some having been retired/unavailable'd aye but out of that only 29 are shop ones. Minions are the same, 1703, some retired/unavailable and 23ish shop ones. Lets not get into gear when for example my wow paladin currently has 644 different looks she can earn just for plate chestpieces while shop only sports 5 cosmetic sets. For all categories, recolors happen of course but for what game doesn't?

And in Dragonflight expansion they came up with a sort of 'battlepass' system that while only offering cosmetics and being on a monthly rotation, sometimes has mounts and pets previously available from the real money shop but now purchasable for currency that you can purely only get through doing different in game activities, be it PvE, PvP, fluff related to events like using fireworks in certain zones/cities etc. There is a capped amount of the currency which you can earn each month and a bonus free reward at the end of the progress bar, but the way they have balanced it has you completing the whole bar in 1-2 hours if you want to while doing the most simplest/quickest tasks, else it can be completed passively with just playing the game as you would.

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Bit of an off-topic for the thread itself but I find the inclusion of WoW weird in this list because it has 1053 mounts from different activities, some having been retired/unavailable'd aye but out of that only 29 are shop ones. Minions are the same, 1703, some retired/unavailable and 23ish shop ones. Lets not get into gear when for example my wow paladin currently has 644 different looks she can earn just for plate chestpieces while shop only sports 5 cosmetic sets. For all categories, recolors happen of course but for what game doesn't?

Because many (likely most) FFXIV players came as "refugees" from WoW when Blizzard was under sexual harassment allegations. So by default, if FFXIV does anything, it's better than WoW. They still have rose-tinted glasses and put all the other MMOs in the same box as "anti-FFXIV" products. Of course, they don't play the actual game, they just AFK and install illegal third-party mods while playing other games.

As the exact opposite (from FFXIV to WoW), I found the lack of shop content to be jarring. Everyone was busy playing the game. It's hard to understand why these people love FFXIV and hate WoW, and when asked, they usually go off on a tangent about American politics or bring up something from 18 years ago. It's never about FFXIV, it's about why they hate their former crack dealer.