Cash Shop: Stifling development.

[Laraul]

How much do you think it costs in $$$ to create a new dungeon? A new raid or trial? How about a new piece of gear? You need new art, models, sounds, code, play testing, and localization into four languages. All this put together is costly. And it's basically given to us free. Games today cost a lot to make. Several hundred million $$$ for an A-List game.

I like to look at something like the cash shop as something that supports the development of the game, and the money spent on those items goes to content that everyone can use (dungeons, raids, gear, etc). To me, that's how things work. The idea that the cash shop hurts development is ridiculous IMO.