Quote Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor View Post
It still isn't. This is cosplay glamour, not new designs. When people have said what you've quoted, they mean the latter.

Nonetheless, would you call someone who, say, goes out partying and blows $100 one weekend an idiot? Why? Because they choose to freely spend their money on what they deem enjoyable? You may dislike something, but that doesn't inherently make it idiotic to partake in.
Oh, it is, you just dont want to accept it or simply can`t accept it, and your example isn`t good because a party might have many reasons, just going out because you are bored and want to blow money away is a very idiotic reason to party and in that case your example just proves my point, while if the party has a good reason to be, like an important celebration or conmemoration, then the example serves your point, but since you didn`t specify, the example itself is terrible and doesn`t relate well to the case of this game cash shop.

The cash shop is objectively bad. Money from it doesn`t even go to the development or the salary of the FFXIV developer team. It doesn`t support the game or the people working behind it in anyway. It only takes stuff from the game and puts it behind a paywall. For example, a mount that should have been the reward from the Odin Trial, to squeeze extra money to meet corporative numbers that doesnt even influence the game as a whole, what you pay to this cash shop is basically paying someone else vacations or luxury commodities, and belive me, isn`t yoshida or soken or anyone involed with the development of FFXIV

And that is the issue. When first mentioned the cash shop, many of us called out the dangers of it and a few white knights came here saying yoshida will never do any wrong and that SE is ever-good, divine and holy.

At first only glamour items from events were going to be part of the cash shop ---> Now we have quite a few exclusive items, even event rewards that were supposed to be special and unique for the community that participated can be bought now.
Then the mounts will be just one ---> Now we have several cash shop exclusive mounts (diferent color scheme).
Then content itself was put behind the cash shop ---> Eternal Bonding is basically a cash shop service.
The inventory issues of this game were solved via cash shop ---> Now we will never have a proper inventory system since solving its current issues would be to cut this income source for the company.

And right now it is happening a leveling potion and several diferent class/job skill-quest skip potions, which are being considered to come our way.

At every wrong turn this whole cash shop has taken since it was announced, people like you have been there to support SE and be wrong. Once more you are here. In a few years we will have raiding food, rare crafting materials and maybe even tomestone packages and again, you will be here to support SE and be wrong.

Cause its hurting the game, hurting everyone experience and probably, something that the dev team will never say because they are in a business, hurting their own vision of how they wanted the game to be and play, cause probably all these decisions come just from above them.