This is aimed at the developers/publishers, or whomever it may concern (on the off chance they actually read anything on here).
I've played many many mmo's, and they have been getting gradually worse in terms of greedy monetization schemes. Now, this game is not the worst offender I've ever seen (which should not be taken as a compliment) but it's still really annoying. I was "ok" with the whole limited inventory deal, and you essentially having to get more space, it's a common ploy in F2P games. The locking player trading/auctioning (entirely) behind a premium paywall was somewhat nauseating, but I got over it soon enough. No, my real problem with this game's monetization is "Star Gems". As far as I can tell (apart from some few early freebies you get) the only way to get SG is by purchasing them using "AC" (the premium currency) and they are quite costly as well. The STOP moment came when I wanted to reset my skill tree, and I went to the AC shop to look for a pass, which apparently is not available... So I ended up buying an additional skill tree with is an option, only to discover that in order to simply switch to my newly purchased skill tree I have to pay a large sum of SG... Then you have the utter gall to type out this little pearl of a message in your SG Shop: "Items exclusive to the SG Shop make playing Phantasy Star Online 2 more fun". I'll admit I did laugh...
So, sorry about the rantiness. I usually never vent on forums, but it was either that or waking up the neighbors because I needed to get this out of my system! Pretty sure I'm done with the game after this, at least for now, so to the gamers; be awesome to each other! And to the greedy ones; [insert random obscenities here].