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Neospector wrote: »There's a reason why surprise style boxes are preferable, is because of the value in permanent items, which nexon never implemented unless it involves a gamble.
Surprise style boxes are valuable because their items can be sold on the free market and auction house for mesos and traded freely (until equipped). Many of them are relatively cheap, especially compared to end-game gear sold on the market. If you want to find a particular item, you should search the market or ask around, another player might have it.
Permanent items go on sale rather often. Transparent items, for example, are sold outside of any RNG-based system typically during the Black Friday season. There have also been several packages, such as the Heroes of Maple outfits (all six of my heros are decked out in their respective outfits) or the Blaster outfits (my Blaster is also decked out as such). My favorite items, fusion anvils, are on sale year-round; I like making outfits out of the available selections in-game far more than the colorful stuff in the cash shop, and I usually only buy fusion anvils and transparents (to cover up the Aquatic Letter eye, Condensed Power Crystal, or Gollux earrings, usually). It is rather annoying that we don't have KMS's cash shop, which has a larger selection of permanent items, but nothing I find personally objectionable (again, I like in-game outfits better).
Hair and face coupons are actually readily available through in-game events (we had an attendance with a hair coupon available just recently). Random Beauty coupons are a particular favorite (and you can utilize the Salon system in the equip tab to save and customize your features more easily).
I'll also point out that cosmetic items costing money is a key point in many popular games.
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Not as many people actually back off if faced with paid cosmetics as you might think.
