I haven’t really said much on this topic yet but I’m just going to throw my 2 cents in the pot.
I played warframe for quite a bit of time in the past and I think some of what it had for the mircotransations, it then has platinum which could be bought for real money, now the bit which I liked most about it was, if you wanted to you could trade the platinum with other players for items or whatever.
For me this was great cause I would grind for hours getting the drops I wanted and then anything extra I got I would then trade for platinum which I could then be used to buy the stuff that was locked behind platinum on market.
This also worked well for my friend that I played with, as warframe is a free to play game he would limit him self to paying so much per month on platinum and act like he was just paying a subscription like in various other mmos. It meant he got the cool stuff without needing to grind as much as I did.
This way items from the shop are accessible to both those that want to pay and those that would rather just grind for hours/days to get the items from the shop themselves.
Right now I’m not 100% how this would translate onto Orbus as there isn’t stuff that is super rare and tradeable which people would be able to trade for “platinum” the J for Jester orb or the pet from Boss4/5 in the raid are things that come to mind but they are soulbound, new additions would be good though or an alternative way of getting the stuff from the in-game shop so those that want the items aren’t “forced” to pay