The bleakest blackpill is yet to come, OP. It's when even after you stop buying their mogstation items, but you realize there's like... a mile long line of people who don't care and will buy no matter what. Hell, they'll even buy several of the same item for every alt. I'm glad you've decided to become a conscientious consumer, but the mmo genre... hell, gaming as a whole, is just screwed. Smart purchasing on an individual level won't change Square's business practices, but at least you won't be spending your money on crap so that's a plus.

Shout out to the figurines they design for these things. 300-400 dollars but when they arrive 6 months later they look like some crap your grandma would accidentally get you from the bootleg figurine store. It's the same as all the other collectible stuff, like the turntable that was way more expensive than just buying a turntable on amazon, and now the PC with the zodiark/hydaelyn logo on the case, but for the projected price you could just buy a prebuilt with better specs on amazon. Most people realize these are bad deals. But all it takes are a few suckers, and those suckers are why we keep having to see this crap. Glad you're no longer one of them, OP.