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[HakuroDK]

Yeah, optional...for now. With Eternal Bond having cash shop tethered to it, you already know Gold Saucer will have cash shop components as well. So pretty much any new system being implemented will be supplemented by cash shop. It's the lazy development, focused on real money that's causing me to stop subbing once my time runs out next week.

It's not lazy development. It's looking at demand and making supply to meet demand. If players didn't want a cash shop, they would not use the cash shop. Plain and simple. It's purely business.

A standard eternal bonding ceremony is free. There is no pay wall. To get some additional cosmetic perks, a fee is given to Mog Station. But like I said before, it's cosmetic. It's cosmetic. There is no gameplay advantage to getting the Gold package vs. the standard. There is no gameplay advantage to getting Sleipnir over Magitek Armor (and actually the Magitek Armor has more features to it anyhow), there is no gameplay advantage to getting the Wind-Up Yda and Papalymo over the Wind-Up Thancred and Minfilia. There is definitely no gameplay advantage to getting the Wailing Spirit over the other Halloween event gear.

So thank goodness your sub time runs out next week so you can go elsewhere and find an MMO that clearly suits your interests better.