Endgame DRG Armor

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Calling stuff you get in a subscription game a "Freebie" is far from a reasonable stance on the topic.

Your defence of anti consumer practices may be questionable but it's not "White knighting" some of it's ground in logic shaky as it may be. Much like the more reasonable arguments against it tend to get people called greedy or people who just hate on everything the "Evil company" does.

Your just as bad as the people your claiming to be attacked by.

I never claimed to be better, just insinuated that it's a shame that you can't have my opinion on this without being accused and burned at the stake. It'd be nice if people were a little more reasonable than that, but whatever.

And as for 'freebies'. I think it's mostly semantics, but I'll give a shot at explaining this.


I don't consider patches and content to be 'freebies' by any stretch of the imagination. It's something that any MMO needs, and it's fueled by whatever payment model they go with (F2P or B2P or P2P/Sub). Bug fixes, balance changes, and other updates to the system are also things that I do believe our money could, should, and probably does go towards.

That being said, veteran rewards, and event minions/mounts/outfits/furnishings are by no means necessary (veteran rewards is more like a loyalty reward for subsequent months, I'd get why you wouldn't consider that free). Our 15 dollars a month goes towards a lot, but it seriously doesn't go towards everything they do. You have to be reasonable about what you think they do or don't deserve to get paid for, that's what it comes down to. You're fine to think that they don't deserve to get paid for things that go over their budget, that put them in the negative, or otherwise compromised positions. I'd like to think that since they're pretty transparent, and they have shown that they care about the game a great deal, I shouldn't be worried about the Cash Shop getting out of hand. And again, event items are pretty much the antithesis of Cash Shop additions.

Also, I know how bad Cash Shop can truly get, and it's cute that people think this game is awful for charging like, 10 bucks for a full outfit. Try playing a Korean game that forces you to literally spend 10's of thousands of dollars in RNG based items to even end-game. Or 30 bucks for full outfits. Nothing even comes close, so.