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

[hydralus]

SE, take this as a lesson. Next time, put the hair in the cash shop for $5 and you'll barely hear a complaint.

[Aviatorhead]

50mil gil for hair is ridiculous. I personally don't want the hair, but I can see why someone would be upset if their options are run this chaotic that they either can't run or have no interest in, or fork up enough money to buy a mansion and furnish it. (No, 50/25 mil gil is not the sort of cash a casual can accrue easily, not even by doing dailies lol)

[Supersnow845]

50mil gil for hair is ridiculous. I personally don't want the hair, but I can see why someone would be upset if their options are run this chaotic that they either can't run or have no interest in, or fork up enough money to buy a mansion and furnish it. (No, 50/25 mil gil is not the sort of cash a casual can accrue easily, not even by doing dailies lol)

Considering casual content generates the most money in this game saying that money Can’t be accrued easily by a casual is wrong, high end content is by and large a drain on people’s finances

[Nabril]

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

The people who write the thing get to dictate what is a reward for the thing or to change that reward on a whim. It's that simple. Choice isn't yours.

[Aviatorhead]

Well what do you mean by casual content here? Because most players I know regardless of their playstyle, aren't walking around with 50mil to spare, and it would probably take a while to get that sort of money if they aren't spamming maps every day. Dailies won't get you that sort of cash any time soon.

[Mawlzy]

SE, take this as a lesson. Next time, put the hair in the cash shop for $5 and you'll barely hear a complaint.

Sort of amazing they needed a lesson since this firestorm was completely predictable. It's also lucky more players don't read these boards. The conversations here are hardly likely to make more people try high-end raiding.

[Mawlzy]

Considering casual content generates the most money in this game saying that money Can’t be accrued easily by a casual is wrong, high end content is by and large a drain on people’s finances

Is that actually true? I genuinely don't know. There were raiders on Reddit reporting making 80 million+ within the first couple of days of CAR, but maybe that's not usually the case?

[BrokenFantasy]

"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.

Lazy strawman of what I said. Not sure if bait or something else lol

[BrokenFantasy]

It's not even difficult to make money - Hell, just doing roulettes to cap out the 450 tomestones/week brings a bit of cash, even more when you play roles that are in Need.
Cash out the other tomes for materials/soil and you got a few hundred-thousands every few days alone on that.

And that's before sending out retainers and gathering/processing mats with DoL/H jobs.

Sounds boring as hell (just like roughly 50% of the so-called gameplay in this game).

[MrJPtheAssassin]

Considering casual content generates the most money in this game saying that money Can’t be accrued easily by a casual is wrong, high end content is by and large a drain on people’s finances

I don't understand this notion where raiders spend a lot of gil on food and pot is coming from...I used to be on Jenova like you and I raided all the time and never spent that much gil on anything for raiding. Shoot back in ShB I used to make food and pots for sale and I stopped bc the prices were set so low that it wasn't even worth the sale of them. Not to mention that those who are in statics tend not to buy anything bc the odds are they have at least one person in the static that can craft stuff for the team. Doing savage and ultmates does not drain that much gil for you lol Unless you potting every single pull and if you are that so dumb XD You only pot when you going for the clear.