Quote Originally Posted by Baxter View Post
haha but we aren't talking about gear we are talking about aesthetics like scars, and hairstyles.
and why do those things have to cost extra money outside of the subscription cost? Nothing, and that's why people(at least I anyway) are against it. The whole premise of the subscription model is one that's traditionally based upon providing you access to the game for a monthly cost, not only parts of it. Cash shops in a P2P game is nothing but a pure money grab. You may or may not like it, you may be for or against it, but at least call it what it is.


Quote Originally Posted by Baxter View Post
Server transfers are cash shop products. Call it a cash shop, call it a monetary convenience amenity that is not a necessity to your in game gaming experience. Whatever you call it you're paying real life cash for an effect in game.
by extension of your logic then subscriptions would also be cash shop items, after all it lets you access the game! Fact is, service such as server transfers predates the cash shops.


Quote Originally Posted by Baxter View Post
If they offered it it's not a requirement to purchase anything from it. No one will hold a gun to anyone's head and force them to buy it. The cashflow will speak for itself. If it fails it fails, but I somehow doubt it. People were eating up that cheap overpriced jewelry they were selling to get a goddamn once a day warp pendant, with coat display, in game.


I understand those who are against it and that's fine, but would those who are really be that angry to let a vanity shop hinder your gaming experience if one existed? Abortion, and gay marriage. Choices are nice even if they don't suit you.
Yes, there are a lot of idiots in the worlds with more money than they should have, news at 11.

For me it's not so much that a vanity shop would hinder my gaming experience (though it depends on the crowd, let's just say CCP learned a lesson or two after the backlash from their vanity shop roll-out in Eve Online). But rather that all too often it becomes the starting point of a slippery slope down the cash-shop drain that results in a trainwreck.