In-game content behind paywalls/ Exclusivity on limited time events/mounts/etc

[Malakii]

With the recent talk of changing the names of the titles in the firmament and seeing the badass omega weapon statue, it has brought up some issues I personally have had for a while and would love to hear what the community thinks about these things as well.

As I just mentioned in the recent live letter an awesome statue of omega with omega M/F was displayed for a whopping ~220 USD. The quality looks great and if I was someone who liked having videogame memorable displayed in my house I would really consider it but, I am not. My problem is not with these awesome statues like omega~220 USD, shiva~150 USD, and odin~180 USD. It's the emotes that are locked behind the huge paywalls, I.E.; Zantetsuken, Diamond Dust, and the new emote for omega. I feel these products bring value to the company and I don't want them to stop making them, I just want them to stop putting in-game content on out of the game products to incentives paying customer to pay more to get an item that they should get in the game. I personally feel in-game content belongs in the game with means to obtain it in the game. That is why I pay a sub, for content to go in the game.

This leads me to the cash shop. I feel like these cash shops encourage the developers to exclude items from the game to have customers pay more for content that should be already included in the paid product. Normally this is w/e in a free-to-play game but this is a subscription-based game and the reason I support subscription-based games is to avoid these kinds of practices or hope to at least. I personally like collecting things but, refuse to spend money on digital products that are left out for the sole intention of being sold, so I know I won't be able to collect everything in this game and that is fine. What is not fine or at least what I am trying to understand is why this is being supported by us the gamers. We are the ones that are encouraging this exclusion!

[*]Minions/Mounts on Cash Shop/Seasonal Items

• There is no reason any digital product belongs in a cash shop over being included in the game, this is hundreds if not thousands of your country's currency to buy in-game items that are not available to be obtained in-game in no other possible way. What value does this add to the customer and why do we support this behavior. Even, some items are seasonal events rewards that have passed, and instead of recycling the rewards into the next year's event, they decide to just throw it on the cash shop and have you pay additional money for it. With the long content patches that we have come to accept, you think they would have time to recycle these events and rewards.