@joecollin: the last two things are mutually exclusive. You can’t have cosmetics that don’t detract from items you find and earn during gameplay. The items they make for cosmetics would otherwise have been in game. Not to mention, even if you could somehow early them in game, simply being able to buy them ruins the entire sense of accomplishment in earning them. New World heavily suffers under this same issue.
@illegal_peanut: I have but it's notorious because it was the very beginning and also Oblivion was actually a good game and not just an mtx delivery platform.
@godofheck42: precisely. They conditioned people by making the phrase "pay to win" the be all and end all. By shouting from the rooftops that their game wont be "pay to win", unaware gamers would see that as a good thing meanwhile they've now settled further down the slope than what would've been okay before.
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