Why do casual players seem entitled to cosmetic items added in game?

[BigCheez]

Character customization options should not be tied to difficult content. It's really that simple.

You're entitled to your opinion but I don't agree with you.

[Rehayem]

The people who do the thing deserve the reward for the thing. All things should offer rewards. It's really that simple.

This is just a sign of worse things to come. They're testing the waters.

[BrokenFantasy]

You're entitled to your opinion but I don't agree with you.

Okay but you literally have no valid reasons for your opinion.

[BigCheez]

Okay but you literally have no valid reasons for your opinion.

All content should have rewards. Cosmetics are a great way to add rewards to content without making the activity mandatory for character progression.

It's actually you who has no reasoning to back their argument. It's literally just a case of "I want the rewards but I don't want to do the content therefore the reward should not be locked behind the content", i.e. entitlement.

[AllenThyl]

Character customization options should not be tied to difficult content. It's really that simple.

"We aren't entitled, we just want this kind of reward with a low barrier that everyone could achieve while essentially afk (if it was mailed, we wouldn't mind), even though it's also available on the MB, but we can't be bothered with that either, we are paying customers after all". Yeah, it's entitlement.
I feel like the problem some people here have, is that the word "entitlement" is used across the pond to shut down every legitimate demand for bettering society. Or when people even are legitimate entitled to certain things by law / contract. However, this is an MMORPG, and a significant appeal of that genre has always been that activities come with rewards, especially customization options. On the one hand, to have goals for players, on the other hand, to brag. I mean, that is why YOU want to have the rewards as well, right? To show them off. To present your character. You don't even understand how required such a reward structure is for a game to exist in the first place. There are other games that throw gear and customization and all that around for free, and they are all in the same corner of "dead MMOs", barely coasting by on life support with no real investment.

[BigCheez]

There really is something comical about how pointlessly evil putting the cutesy cottagecore haircut in some of the least accessible content in the game is. Rewards are already stacked without it so they coulda put this anywhere in the game but nope. Gotta make sure the raider elite get to fleece those dirty casuals for everything they got.

Almost as comical as someone developing a persecution complex over a haircut in a videogame.

[Rehayem]

I can understand the argument from both sides. The game is old, and character customization is very limited and straight up ancient compared to its competitors, so putting a hairstyle, which changes your character appearance, behind some hardcore content, is understandably upsetting, but at the same time, SE is creating a bigger rift between players with petty bickering because they're unable to provide good and satisfactory rewards for any type of content, as usually the reward is a single (1) item of some uniqueness. Eventually more things will be shoved into the mogstation shop, outnumbering shop items by number of rewards in game.

[DynnDiablos]

Folks are all up in arms over a hairstyle that isn't even that attractive. I wouldn't spend two gil on it, let alone 20 million.

[Lilapop]

Folks are all up in arms over a hairstyle that isn't even that attractive. I wouldn't spend two gil on it, let alone 20 million.

As an enjoyer of the hairstyle I like this opinion.

[Lilapop]

well the devs have no excuse to be tone-deaf to the players at this point... they KNOW that they want more RP stuff like customization. and they KNOW raiders want to do more damage. so imo that should be the divide. raids should reward raiding stuff and there needs to be a steady flowing stream of "casual stuff" to keep the simpler player subbed. i miss the days when i was the weird one for raiding. now im the weird one for glamming

"RP stuff like customization"

I don't RP and I do enjoy a decent looking avatar.