Problem with "Optional" Items in the Cash Shop

[Cynfael]

My main point was, what's the difference between the Thavnarian gear in the game that you can get by crafting recipes, and the Fuga gear on the cash shop? Why is it ok to charge for one when they put the other one in the game? What is so different about them that they can't put all the glamour items in the game?

Again, I would guess that the payroll hours it takes to design and implement some of this additional content are funded at least partially by the cash shop's revenue.

Personally I don't mind this cash shop because it's purely cosmetic, offers nothing that's of substantially better quality than what you can already find in the game, and supplements a game I enjoy and pay a piddly base monthly fee to access. I kind of look at it as SE's tip jar tbh.