Cash Shop vs In Game: An objective view of Heavensward

[sarehptar]

Twintania and the Amber Draught Chocobo should not be listed in the cash shop, as you can technically obtain them for free by recruiting people without buying anything yourself.

That said, this isn't really a fair comparison. Rather than comparing the number of Heavensward unique/glamor items to the number of cash shop items, you should compare the number of items given for free prior to the cash shop existing. For example, all the past seasonal items used to be purchasable with gil, and now they are not anymore. All new emotes used to be free from in-game events, now we have to pay for some emotes if we want them. So on, so forth.

My concern is far less about the sheer number of free items compared to cash shop items, but the slow creep of the cash shop into places it did not use to be.