Stop Online Store Items

[NanaWiloh]

I'll keep this short most MMO's now days have a cash shop. They all have forums and have players who complain about the cash shop, yet not a single one of these MMO's despite years of complaints have ever removed them. You are fighting a battle with no end in sight that others have long given up on. Good luck is all that can and will ever be said.

[Ephremjlm]

I'll keep this short most MMO's now days have a cash shop. They all have forums and have players who complain about the cash shop, yet not a single one of these MMO's despite years of complaints have ever removed them. You are fighting a battle with no end in sight that others have long given up on. Good luck is all that can and will ever be said.

I actually agree, and from a business perspective I can't really blame them for trying to make more as long as it's not a detriment to the game. Personally I prefer they keep the casual wear on the cash shop and keep all of the high fantasy stuff in game. That said there is one thing that grinds my gears that people don't talk about, and that is the blatant double dipping with event items.

This one actually pisses me off. I've been gaslit in the past so many times particularly back in EW when I would complain about the lack of content, and so many people would tell me "The events are what the sub pays for as continued content along with the main development of patches." Which is all fine and dandy except after every event, those items usually go up on the Mog Station as paid items never to return as event items. Tell me why I can't get a damn Christmas tree for my apartment without having to pay for one off the mog station. Tell me why getting decent looking Halloween decorations is impossible without pulling out my credit card. It's because they use our sub money not to generate replayable content, but instead fund the creation of items that they then RESELL BACK TO US and new players on the mog station.

That is actually the most scummy sales tactic this game utilizes and more people should be pissed about it. ESPECIALLY considering the game is in the current state that it's in. Like how sick would it be for current or new players to be able to grind out old event items during event times with a genuinely fun event with a replayable game loop. It doesn't have to be complicated but it gives people a reason and a want to play together and it's NOT a new or novel MMO concept either.