Who is Optional – A Question of Consumer Value

[Riepah]

Everyone still has an equal chance. It's the same price for everyone, and nothing in the cash shop is available by some other means. If it's trophies you're interested in, then nothing in the cash shop should be interesting because you can't pretend you got it the "hard" way (because there isn't one).

So you'd be fine with ilvl 140++ items being sold in the cash shop, because everyone would have the same chance to get them as they'd be the same price?

I earn the item with effort too, by working and exchanging my work for an item that I want. Seems to be no different from earning Gil in-game and buying said minions from the Market Board.

It also seems to be no different from buying gil from RMT.


EDIT for daily post limit:

I'm more speaking in terms of legal micro-transactions but the point is that if you're truly gonna champion for the idea that optional is not optional because different players have different play-styles then we really cannot discriminate and impose our own preferred or ideal play-styles on them, it'd be hypocritical to say i support and respect the preference of players and their play-styles but I do not support the play-styles of players who prefers to buy vanity off mogstation

Preferring to buy your progress in game rather than earning it is not a "play-style", because clicking "Purchase" in the mog-station is not playing. Besides, I've a hard time trying to understand why anyone would rather spend money on stuff than get it for free, considering they're already paying each month to play to begin with.