Locking Emote behind Potentially $100 Statue

[Alberel]

Something a lot of people are missing is that SE doesn't add these in-game items to physical products just to be nice. It's a marketing move to get more people to buy that product JUST for the in-game item. It's not so bad when the products are of a reasonable price, but this emote is basically going to be limited to solely the players who have a lot of money IRL and that is exactly what a subscription-based MMO is supposed to avoid.

As far as anyone in game is going to be concerned that's a $120 emote. Whether you spent the money JUST for the emote or not is irrelevant; the only way to get it is to spend $120 and that's going to exclude a pretty vast number of the player base from ever hoping to buy it even if they wanted it.

[ErryK]

Something a lot of people are missing is that SE doesn't add these in-game items to physical products just to be nice. It's a marketing move to get more people to buy that product JUST for the in-game item. It's not so bad when the products are of a reasonable price, but this emote is basically going to be limited to solely the players who have a lot of money IRL and that is exactly what a subscription-based MMO is supposed to avoid.

As far as anyone in game is going to be concerned that's a $120 emote. Whether you spent the money JUST for the emote or not is irrelevant; the only way to get it is to spend $120 and that's going to exclude a pretty vast number of the player base from ever hoping to buy it even if they wanted it.

What's stopping someone from purchasing it, keeping the statue and selling the code for a fraction of the price? Or gifting the code to someone else?