I have plenty of things that I hate since 2.0 (hunts, atma grind, bowmages, diadem, eureka, zurvan to name a few), but if there's ONE thing that I highly despise and I think it's very stupid is....the story skip potion.

Let me say this: I don't like the story BUT I do respect people that like it AND I do respect the devs at first for locking content behind it and essentially telling us to "suck it up": I honestly respect that decision because I understand, it's a story based game and if you don't like just skip it - there are hundreds of thousands of billions of trillions of ways to make the story not lock the content, but they picked A way and they stuck with it and I genuinely applaud it.

And then story skip potion appeared...and everything instantly lost its value.

"Oh the story is super important, it's a final fantasy game, you shouldn't be allowed to skip it....buuut if you pay us 25 bucks we'll let you skip through it!"

That sounds like hypocrisy to me, because they were very adamant about keeping the lock, but now we can just skip if we pay cash...so it's basically a "pay2win" mechanic that allows you to progress faster (because some f2p games ask for money for faster progression) and on top of that we have to pay more cash for a level boost.

Granted it's not the worst content released - it's cash shop anyway - but it just shows how little they truly care about the story...afterall if they did why not just keep it locked "naturally" and not behind a paywall?