Thayos wrote:
Filth, that sounds a lot like P2W, which is bad for communities on an entirely different level.
Teravibe wrote:
So someone "stealing" his way to max level and gaining 10 times more than you in gold and could afford more stuff from the AH is not P2W? Well if the term is not correct ok i guess but in my eyes as a personal opinion is a kind of P2W.
The issue here is people's definition of pay to win. P2W is a term reserved for items that are only available through the cash shop that are better than what is available to players who play the game normally. An example would be a super strength materia that is of a higher quality than anything you could obtain playing the game. Buying a relic weapon that has all of the stats a normal relic has with an added augment of your choice. Buying a buff for your character that allows you to do more damage, take less damage or otherwise outperform people who weren't spending real money.
Almost all of the buffs and perks in the games I mentioned do nothing more than either make an aesthetic change in your characters appearance or shorten the time it takes you to accrue the experience or currency needed to unlock the exact same things you could unlock by playing the game normally. Not pay to win.
The only exception to this would be the vehicles in World of Tanks that are only available through the gift shop. The difference there is that you are matched up against other players in PvP according to the tier of the vehicle you play and at best, premium vehicles are on par with their even tier counterparts. Most of them are watered down versions that get a slight bonus to money generation. Most people who purchase these tanks don't do it because they dominate the battlefield, but because they earn money slightly faster and allow you to purchase the same crews, equipment and modules that everyone else uses.
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Rinsui wrote:
Only hips + boobs all day and hips + boobs all over my icecream
HaibaneRenmei wrote:
30 bucks is almost free
cocodojo wrote:
Its personal preference and all, but yes we need to educate WoW players that this is OUR game, these are Characters and not Toons. Time to beat that into them one at a time.