Why do you like this game?

[SturmChurro]

I agree here, the cash shop in FFXIV is much better than many other mmo's. Ads for the cash shop are not pushed into your face everytime you login, nor is there any shop ingame only the mogstation. You buy things if you want them, nobody forces you. The cash shop items are mostly for fans with extra money, if you want to support the developers even more, you can buy things from the shop. Besides, name changing, server changing, appearance changing is way cheaper than any other mmo's

Yes, it's not even actually in the game. Yep, in ESO you get advertisements when you log in, and other games pushing you to look at the cash shop and their "deals" constantly. It just leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Free to play games are the worse, and buy to play is such a gimmick. Yeah ESO is buy to play, but with the crafting bag and stuff you will also have a sub for that game. I consider that game a sub based game, I won't play it unless I have a sub, and I am sure many others won't either. Just like I consider SWTOR a sub based game still. "Buy to play" and "free to play" are just an excuse for them to try and get away with worse and worse microtransactions, without an actual sub requiring them to actually release content on a regular schedule. In fact those games will usually end up costing the dedicated player MUCH MORE than a subscription based mmorpg, especially FFXIV.