Over-priced Microtransactions!!! PLEASE FIX THIS!!!

[AlliciaCapulet]

Besides, why do you care so much about what other people spend their money on?

I don't care, honnestly. But I'm someone who like to achieve everything in a game, but I find ridiculous to spend 24$ US (so that means like 35$CAD) on some pixels for a mount, especially with the amount of money I put in the game. Since it's a part of a "pay-to-win" and I hate to do it but do it anyway, I pay to have 10 retainers, which double the subscriptions fees. That's a lot of money for a game, so every other stuff on the Mog Station, I would like to have them, but I don't want to put any more money than what I already do in the game. And, since I hate really, really much the microtransaction system, I try to don't encourage it, and like I said the only extra I pay are the retainers because they enter in the "pay-to-win" category, and I will need them, especially early on the ShB release to get lots of mats every 40 minutes to level my crafters. But that retainer system is also one of the major reason why I hate so much what they are doing. The least would have been to at least give us an extra retainer every expansion, or at least to incrase the space we have on them. As a crafter - this is my end game - I need those retainers, call it hypocrysis if you want but they don't give a lot of other choices if you like crafting and storing mats.

But to answer the question, it's because I like to have every items and glamour in a game, but, that system don't allow me to have it since I won't encourage it. I would prefer to have less glamour items/events than what we have now but everything for free, if it's the cost of removing those microtransaction. They also have been super lazy on Stormblood by just re-releasing lots of old glamour and making them dyable on the normal content. But, as I said earlier, sadly for me, there is too many people here who buy so the system will stay in place, and all I can do is to agree with the OP and tells that I hate this system.