Everyone be happy?
Oh no my friend.
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Except that you can’t 
Oh, you could try to sell him your Steam account, but that’s not the same as selling him your Steam library. Not to mention that you can’t really sell him your account, either, because that’s against the rules and he would risk having the account he paid for permanently locked.
Of course, you know that, yet you still choose to equate buying an MtG card – a perfectly legal thing that people do all the time – with buying a Steam account, which is expressly forbidden. 
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In the meantime, he’d have all that glorious content and I’d have $200k… no one would be missing out.
You know what, you’re right. MtG is totally fine, and fomo isnt even a thing so what do I care.
Just like Conan Exiles is totally fine, right?
That’s the spirit 
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This topic does indeed pop up with amazing regularity doesn’t it.
Two (so far) of the players on my servers have bought everything available from the Bazaar (other players have not). Both are mainly builders so it is nice to see the imaginative builds and variations of builds using many of the bazaar pieces. Effects on Gameplay? Well, apart from the overall look, hasn’t made much difference to their gameplay. Kind of like seeing that family that have Everything out in that xmas display. Pretty. Xmas (insert generic holiday of choice) still happens for everyone else who didn’t bling their property.
I’m in agreement. At least there’s a choice. And at least the game doesn’t suffer if you buy everything/some things/nothing from the Bazaar.
I personally just opt for the 'complete challenges and collect the battlepass, wait for next chapter and repeat. I do also buy, per chapter, the equivalent Crom Coinage to the value of the old DLCs. It is new content and I do grab a couple of extras when I want. As they are cyclic, I don’t go completely to pieces when I miss one set or one ‘mark-down’ as they usually rotate through over time. I choose to buy the extra because development costs money and because not all players can afford to buy in.
Fomo rage - have a cuppa tea. #grabspopcorn
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In short, FOMO doesn’t exist in Conan Exiles because the stuff in BP and BLB is cosmetic. Well, I’m certainly glad someone “explained” that 
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Totally agreed. Exclusivity is unnecessary. The only justification I see is aggressive monetisation. Some great items in the Bazaar today, but still very expensive and with misleading “sale” prices. I haven’t seen these items in the shop before, they are not “on sale”. As another user pointed out, this is what is called “dark design” and is even listed as one of the EU’s “unfair commercial practices”. I had another user tell me prices were due to “inflation”, this would probably be like 100x inflation compared to previous DLC.
I understand wanting to continuously make money and wish them the best as they continue to improve the game. Maybe they could add a subscription option for wealthier users to view and purchase all items, but make reasonable prices in the rotational Bazaar for regular users.
I do wonder how many bazaar trails have landed through here since 3.0 - this one just another of many, with just as many explanations, complaints, fomos and nomos. Looking forward to the next. 
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Isn’t Fomo someone’s personal feeling? How can one say whether or not it exists when it’s different person to person.
People can and do feel and believe in things that don’t exist.
It is not.
FOMO means Fear Of Missing Out and it is a tactic used by companies to drive sales through the use of virtual scarcity.
The difference that you don’t seem to understand is that, while MTG has time-bound printings and items such as the battle pass rewards from Conan Exiles, is that the first is an ACTUAL item that requires material costs to produce and those don’t spawn from thin air, while the latter is a digital item that can be “produced” indefinetely.
This is the exact same reason why “criptocurrencies” and NFTs have no value whatsoever.
If an item can be bought, through whatever means and whichever price, at any time, by anyone, it is not FOMO. On the other hand, even if one has the money to buy and yet is not able to due to arbitrary virtual scarcity - that is, one that has no actual reason other than decision - then it is FOMO.
Time-bound rewards in the battle pass, Twitch rewards and other things that are only available for a certain period of time are examples of FOMO. Not being able to buy X model of a car from the manufacturer that ceased production after Y amount of years is not.
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All of which are either free in the case of twitch drops, or paid for by your first $10 battlepass purchase if you keep finishing the battlepass. As far as “predatory tactics” go, that would be one emaciated predator. Not a lot of milking the customer going on when you can spend $10 once and get all the content that comes after… where do I go to properly show my panic and indignity.
And back to MtG… when did WotC ever sell you just the card you wanted at a given price? When could I just go buy a strip mine from them? Oh wait, they actually make you gamble on the contents of the packs to get what you want… that’s so much better, I see.
It’s admittedly a somewhat different case because second-hand market exists for cards. Even if you didn’t manage to score the winner-card from buying boosters, you could convince someone who did to sell you theirs, with a big enough stack of money. (Black Lotus seems to be for sale from EUR 8699 upwards.)
With digital content, scarcity is a purely artificial construct. You can’t buy a Battle Pass item from another player who got one when it was available. You can’t even buy one from Funcom. You needed to pay for the items, and either play the game or pay more, within a set three-month window, or they would be forever out of your reach.
Funcom’s Battle Pass is done in what is possibly the least abusive way possible for a Battle Pass, but there’s still the pressure to make the purchase now or miss out on the content; and there’s the annoyance that if you weren’t playing for those three months for any number of valid reasons, or if you only recently got into the game, you never had a chance to get those BP items in the first place.
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My Conan FOMO is my fear of missing out on watching them fail with this Bazaar. I quit the game and flipped my review from very positive to extremely negative. Conan has a brain tumor and is going to die, unless someone casts a spell and removes that bazaar tumor.
Just popped my head in to see if it had been removed yet and I see it is still there, generating a ton of negativity on these forums and in the Steam reviews.
How about no. Work for the items like everyone else. Nobody’s fault but your own that you were late to the party.
So, uh, the take here is “it’s your fault you started playing the game too late”. Can you explain how, exactly, one can “work” so hard that one ends up traveling back in time?
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Because it’s his fault he didn’t start playing years ago. Hence choices have consequences. The game was advertised a ton when it launched nobody’s fault he didn’t buy the game before now but his. Players did the work to complete the BP quests for the stuff he wants at 75cc per item. If FC were to fall for his scam I would recommend that the price be 15000 per item and a share go to those of us that actually bought in.
By your username you should be 22 by now, so let me tell you this:
A) You should work on your reading skills and topic comprehension;
B) Stop being so aggressive to people;
C) I’m 34, so the only kid here is you.
D) You thinking that others have to go back in time in order to get things they didn’t even know is hilarious.
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Actually I am 51 so kid is a relevant term. Secondly my point stands. The game has been out for years why wait until a month ago to get it other then personal choice? Star Wars Galaxies had the same issue when they did the NGE with youngsters like you coming in with a sense of entitlement. Guess what it didn’t work out well for them. Don’t expect to be handed everything for free or less then everyone else. Exclusive means something.
Who said anything about free? Do you have reading disability? Can you actually READ and UNDERSTAND what is being said?
Go back and read again, slowly.