Quote Originally Posted by Zojha View Post
You know what's even more hilarious? Double standards.

Consider expansions. What are expansions? Basically cash shop bundles with several exclusive features. Heavensward owners have a HUGE advantage over non Heavensward owners in all just about every regard - they gain more gil, more power, more overall content. But somehow, everyone is okay with that. If you were to put every expansion feature into the cash shop as singular items instead of a bundle however, say, putting the level cap raise and job skills up for 1 dollar, then each new zone at a few cents and the MSQ for another dollar, a primal battle at a few cent (imagine it all summing up to the same end price), it would be pay to win and evil. Why? Double standard.
One is considered a game, the other is considered nickle and diming xD

Having said that, I'm okay with the principle of a cash shop - I've bought from mog station - but when it becomes the primary source of income (*cough*eso*cough*) then developer resources focus on it as a priority and stuff that would otherwise be packaged in a game, gets shut behind the store. Then of course come the lockboxes. FFXIV has the right balance though exactly as it is now from a consumer point of view, in my opinion.