I don’t mind paying for content. The season pass is content and it is completely acceptable to charge for it.
Gear Sets are not content. They are a Quality of Life feature that should have been in the game from the beginning, and you are charging $5 per set. People are buying gear sets because they are necessary and you know this and it’s scummy of you to charge people for them.
It’s fine that your desperate. Your 20-hour watch time requirement for the latest Twitch drop shows that well enough. I get it, money’s tight, whatever, at least it didn’t cost me anything, and we both benefit in the end. I don’t see buying something that should have been in the game already, as a benefit to any of us. Gear is a core part of your game and players waste tens or hundreds of hours just sorting through gear, with most players on average having 7-10 (many more in plenty of cases) sets of gear, and you want to charge for us to have a usable amount, anything beyond the measly 2 (3 if you count the one from the season pass). If I as a player want to have a reasonable amount of gear sets, your $40 game just turned into an upwards of $90 game, including the cost of the season pass which is our current “content”.
Oh, and you’re still charging people to transfer off of dead servers because you can’t be bothered to do more merges. I promise you, if you make a good game people will gladly pay to support it, but don’t make people pay to make the game good. That should have been established at the cost of entry.