Are MMOs still like this?

Pretty sure that's actually an endgame armor in Final Fantasy 14

Heavens no, why would they wait until you were so deep in the game to charge you for cosmetics?

If you mean that late game armor looks like crap, pretty much. Some, like Maple Story had at one point, gendered equipment that only males or females could wear, though I believe in Maple's case it stopped doing that. FF14 had decent looking endgame armor in the base game, though with the subsequent expansions got worse. WoW's armors became copy and paste with just better stats. Ragnarok Online, which yes is still around, only shows headgear and certain back items, actual armor is not shown and the class "armor" is always the same.

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it is. ff14 cucks btfo