I understand that the cash shop enables SE to make money. I'm glad they are able to do well. I bought a computer and the game to support them as Final Fantasy XI helped me get through dark times in my life. With that said, I find the lack of opportunities to get "optional items" in game discouraging. I love the ADS mount for PVP, it is a great incentive to do PVP even though the took away the exp earned from the launch of stormblood. But I look at something like the Carbuncle mount and I believe it is cash shop only. I love carbuncle, but I wouldn't buy as it feels like I'm being exploited. We get taken advantage of all the time in real life: costs for food, housing, education, the list goes on.

It is the exploitation that burns here. I too would like Yoshi-P to respond to this fact. If not directly acknowledging how they are treating us, but by revamping the rewards in-game. Eureka could present opportunities to address this.