

Then sell the emote for $200/€200 in the store so people who bought the emote with a statue as a "bonus" can't complain.It's a double-edged sword. On the one hand, SE loves money. The cash shop is proof of that. But on the other hand, the ridiculous price of the statues coupled with how limited they're gives the owner a precived level of prestige. They have this emote because they spent x amount of money and you didn't. Simply selling the emotes on the cash shop damages that veneer of prestige.
In saying that I agree with you because I absolutely hate Fomo and I think less of companies that practices it as I see it as a predatory behavior, but I see it going over like a lead balloon with the crazy stupid amounts of money statue crowd. This issue hasn't made people quit en masse, so it's not a big deal to them. Ergo, the silence.
They still will. Plus, it's a really bad look for SE. Also, I don't see $200 emotes selling. And if they do, you don't want to see the next level of capitalistic greed you've just greenlit. I'd normally wave it off, but all these corporations want is more and more money for less and less. And at every turn when people are complacent thats when they(corporations) will start charging for things that were before free or a given. Because more money is never enough.
I'd rather both stop. Both the statues and the emotes, but I don't have that kind of power or pull. Hell, I'd remove the cash shop completely and make everything earnable in the game in perpetuity. Both premium items and pvp fomo. But we've accepted that level of corporate greed as sacrosanct, so what can we do? Not buy it? As the rest of us sheep (I'm including myself since my morals aren't as concrete as what I would want) froth at the mouth over it. Cruze chaser comes to mind. People were literally trying to boycott it. Then you did a hunt train and saw hundreds of them. Really showing them...
Anyway, that's what I have to say about it.
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