Quote Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh View Post
Is there a better counter argument than that or is everyone just going to go "No u"?
An argument to people screaming that it's optional? Yep, citing other MMOs that have went down the same route, the same group of people claimed it was only optional stuff and that the majority was still in the game, and that changed fast. Of course when you say they retort with "But that's a slippery slope, you have no evidence of that", of course I don't, that doesn't invalidate the argument. There's a difference between a reasonable slippery slope and an absurd one, which would be on the lines of:
FFXIV IS GOING TO MAKE RAIDS NOTHING BUT A WHITE ROOM AND YOU HAVE TO BUY THE MODELS AND TEXTURES FROM THE MOGSTATION
Businesses are out to make money, they're going to keep pushing it until they keep making money and the community will adapt and be fine with it. Level boost first introduced to WoW it was an outrage, now? It's fine. Mounts? It was fine, only a few mounts right? Now, most mounts in game are a literal reskin (not even adding extra armour in some cases). Hell, this slippery slope is already in effect with FFXIV. First it was Fantasias, "every MMO does it, there's no problem, it's cheaper than other MMOs" (I agree there), then old event items "Hey, it's better than them never coming back", even though they have come back before, then Sleipnir. No one was happy with that, even the Japanese players, some of them got salty to the point that stating someone important on the development team resembled a frog's testicle sack. The English players though? "It's only optional", let's move forward a few months, now we have NPC clothing and then even a patch later, two mounts. The icing on the cake is that they're not even account wide, like WoW would do it. Mog Station updates are becoming more and more frequent.