Right, you're going to keep picking at semantics and keep being a fanboy, and I'm going provide intellectually honest criticism of something I am also excited about. If you can't discern the differences between the coercion inherent in this system, and the one in, say, Planetside 2, that's your problem.
You're taking just as much of a connotative, subjective interpretation of these pricing models as I am. Bottom line, you're paying money for advantages over other players. That's not a statement about what kind of advantages, or how decisive those advantages are, it is what it is. It's not particularly heinous, and I never said it was.
Also note their EQNL cash shop is meant to include players selling resources to each other for station cash/real currency, so add that to your perspective when one player produces resources 10% faster than another.
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