Quote Originally Posted by Kuolema View Post
It isn't that a few people are defending the cash shop, they just realize that the cash shop is a fact of gaming life. I know you vehemently deny this fact but denying it doesn't make it any less true.

If possible can we please allow these pro and anti cash shop threads to die. Everything that could be said has been said.
Without these discussions there would be no one to tell the devs when enough was enough and they would quite literally sell everything in the cash shop if they believed they could get away with it. Players such as yourself are a serious problem as you argue as though the developers can do no wrong and such will bend over and take anything they give us. The reality is players arguing against the cash shop keeps the devs in check and makes them think twice about how far they're willing to push things.

There are very few MMOs out there that didn't prove the slippery slope 'fallacy' to actually be true. The majority of cash shop introductions I've seen have gotten progressively worse and worse over time, with players feeling more and more pressured to buy in order to get the same enjoyment they once had. Players such as yourself facilitate this course of events by essentially saying you don't care as long as the content of the shop is not something you're interested in. Of course as soon as they overstep your own personal limits with regards to what can be sold you'll blow your top and come screaming on here. It's the typical 'not in my backyard' problem and it is incredibly sad to see.

Realising that the cash shop is here to stay is one thing, but it is entirely absurd for a customer to defend a business' attempts to milk more money out of them. It's like your energy supplier putting their prices up and you just saying they'll provide a better service for it... in reality all that extra money just goes to their shareholders. Very little of it actually goes into anything for the consumers. It is really no different here, especially when things like the Sleipnir mount are proven cut content.