Quote Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor View Post
How is it a horrible idea? People want the items, but missed the event. Thus, they make them purchasable for those willing. Asking most just be made available via gil would diminish the event somewhat.
I don't think cash shops have any place in a subscription game (outside of character services - fantasias, world transfer, name change, etc).

This is a game that we had to purchase to play, and we pay a monthly subscription to continue playing. It's double-dipping with your paying customers. Cash shops should be left to F2P and B2P games.

So now we have people practically begging SE to release more and more items to their cash shop instead of making them available via in-game methods. How many more "exclusive" items do you want them develop for their cash shop versus putting them into the actual game?