Quote Originally Posted by adn View Post
FFXIV has one of the least offensive cash shops I've ever seen
The fact that it exists in a game with a monthly sub fee is offensive enough. The fact that they apparently plan to add even more exclusive items to it is even more offensive - especially on top of the whole rent-a-retainer system when indeed the game does have an admitted inventory issue. (They actually outright share numbers of how many new items HW brought in, and how many new items there are in a content patch - really should have kept quiet about that, in my opinion.) Honestly, down this road, keeping in mind that they don't want to restrict access to new areas/whatever in 4.0, level boosts and the like are really only a question of "when", not "if". :/