What Portion of Cash-Shop Proceeds go toward Development

[Nutz]

stuff...

Being that SE is a publicly traded company their profit margins are really anybody's business who cares to ask. That doesn't necessarily translate to a per-project basis, never mind sub-projects, but the point is that if the cash shop does well it incentives SE to put more things in the cash shop, potentially ignoring (probably minor) additions to the game. I don't think anybody wants SE developing items that they have to pay for in addition to their subscription. The only reasonable exception might be if they decided to undertake tons of fan requests and actually had to hire a team dedicated to fulfilling them, completely outside of normal development.

[Fyrebrand]

The more revenue the cash shop generates, the more they will divert time/resources to creating more cash shop items and pressuring players to buy from it. You would be naive to even hope for otherwise.

[KenzieLynch]

The more revenue the cash shop generates, the more they will divert time/resources to creating more cash shop items and pressuring players to buy from it. You would be naive to even hope for otherwise.

I don't think I could have said it better.

[kanjitai]

never mind.