Mogstation taking another step to the darkside

[MOZZYSTAR]

One of my friends pointed out something important: we're basically getting less content that comes with our sub for the same price. Not only are they really pushing adding more stuff to the cash shop (which basically means less stuff for us), but we're now getting one less dungeon per patch (for DoL/H stuff but that really shouldn't affect what we're getting), the collectors' edition of expansions don't come with as many perks/freebies as they did with (say) ARR, they didn't give us a healing class as we really needed one, Hrothgar & Viera are a total hot mess and despite making new gear (e.g. helmets and hair) they're not making them suitable for either race and they're gender locked, they're prioritising making shit for cash shop instead of working on instead of prioritising things that both need to be addressed (e.g. talking to the playerbase so we know what's going on with things like the healing classes, the races) and fixed.

We already pay approximately $180 USD a year (+60 or more every two years) assuming we sub every month and there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of players. Stop milking us like a massive barn of cash cows. This isn't a F2P game, so much items should not be locked behind a cash shop like a F2P game and the amount of content we get "for free" should not be dwindling. NEWSFLASH, IT'S NOT FREE. WE PAY EVERY MONTH. Patches come out every 3-4 months. Accumulatively, we pay approximately $45-$60 every patch release ($15*3=$45, $15*4=$60) for the new content they give us; that's the price of a whole new game. We don't usually get enough content to be worth the same price of an entirely new game. Therefore, the items and content we receive should not be dwindling as it is. Items should not be locked behind a cashshop (at least not as many as there currently are and will eventually grow to be.). There is a level of expectation of what a subbed MMO should provide with its content for paying customers VS a F2P game.

If SE wants to focus more on cash shop, make the game F2P. If not, then stop prioritising cash shop items that can't otherwise be obtained within the game. (But better yet, stop wasting resources by making more stuff for Mogstation and start working on things that need fixing, please.)

Sorry for being an ass, but I'm still pretty burnt on all the crap that's happened with Shadowbringers. Story aside (and the new DoH/L stuff is cool), it was easily the worst expansion release they've had so far in terms of classes and races and so on. I would take Raubahn EX over this fiasco. It just feels disrespectful. SE feels like they are being disrespected (and they are, to be fair), but they're also disrespecting us - their consumers. Without them, the game wouldn't exist. But without us, they wouldn't even have the funds to continue this game. We're codependent on each other, so we should be more respectful towards each other. As far as I'm concerned, they're acting like they're very entitled to our money and they're not. We choose to fund them. For our funding, they provide us with the game. It's like a patreon thing. One does not subscribe to his/her/their favourite youtuber or artist expecting to not benefit from it. One expects to benefit and their money be compensated in some way. If one is no longer benefiting, one unsubscribes. It's that simple. If a creator makes their memberbase unhappy, well... There goes a possible paycheck. What I'm trying to say is... It's good and fair to get paid for (it is their job), but they're not entitled to it as they've been acting and I'm finding this money grubbing attitude to be very tasteless and disrespectful.


Edit/PS: I don't blame the dev team. I blame their director/producer and their company itself because this largely seems like bad management/directing to me.