Endgame DRG Armor

[RyuRoots]

For one, you're making theassumption that I think everyone's going around explicitly trying to 'collect' free stuff from subscriptions and memberships. I'm just saying- there is a such thing as an extraneous offering. Something that is by every meaning of the word, 'optional'. People seem to not understand what this means when it comes to gaming. It's like people understand this concept when applied to literally anything else, like it doesn't apply to gaming (I assure you, business is business, it does).

What? You clearly don't understand what you're reading since I implied nothing of the sort. I'm saying that many people play specifically for glamours and such. What I take issue with is describing what you pay for every month as "free", because it really isn't. We're not playing a free-to-play game, we're playing a game where you fork over cash every month. This line of logic might work for some single-player games where you buy it once and then the devs churn out extra stuff that you can buy if you're interested in. That's not what's happening here. It's chunks and pieces that easily could and should be in the game that are being chopped up and sold piecemeal.

Funny thing is that I actually don't have anything against people that use it, since I have. Not because I like it, but I just gave up. Certain things I want and I know nothing is gonna change the system we have, so screw it. I've gotten a fair number of gifts from friends from the shop too so eh. Do what you want with your own money, but don't try to pretend that this is somehow a good or reasonable state of affairs when you don't seem to be aware that "optional content" as you put it, was at one time something you got WITH your purchase, not in addition to it.

[Nominous]

It's chunks and pieces that easily could and should be in the game that are being chopped up and sold piecemeal.

I mean, you'd have to go by the assumption that there's no budget plan, or that their development team has the money and time to do whatever they want. I don't really think that's the way it is, but who am I to say, really. I just know that I've seen business plans from a couple places I've worked, and there's ridiculous expectations for how much money your store should be making. I'd imagine it works similarly with MMO's. If that's the case, they probably just chose the lesser of two evils- implementing things they'd love to for free (but can't justify the budget for, since it messes with sales plans) for a cost.