If you get new weapon skills...

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How am I supposed to address that? I have no idea who works on what and how SE's cost structure works, and neither do you. I will say that I don't think the separate cost of Abyssea was done to recoup the costs of development, or because different people worked on it, or anything like that. I think the separate cost is there because they realize there are plenty of suckers who will pay for anything new in this game regardless of the volume or quality of the content.

Of course they did it to make money. That said, I just think it's silly that people act entitled to any additional content whatsoever. When you purchased Wings of the Goddess, new endgame was never promised in that package. More importantly, when you purchased Wings of the Goddess, there was absolutely concept of content geared towards beyond level 75. Why shouldn't we have to pay for additional content to accompany the level cap?

Isn't one of the biggest arguments that people make when others complain about the monthly cost is that those monthly payments help pay for new content?

I don't think it's unreasonable to want SE to keep additional costs for new content relatively low or provide good bang for your buck given how much players have already invested in the game (hundreds of dollars most likely). Square is concerned with their bottom line, users should be concerned with theirs as well.

The monthly fee pays for a lot of thinks. Development of new content is only one of many. I don't think the fees we pay each month go quite so far as adding content beyond a level cap which has existed for the past six-and-a-half years is covered.

I expect Vision of Abyssea to be worth $10. As far as I'm concerned, $10 really isn't all that much money; and I'm willing to shell out $30 for new endgame that will keep us going until level 99. If you don't think it's worth that amount of money, that's fine, don't buy it. I just think it's silly that you seem to think it should be free.