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Originally Posted by Andos
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Bad analogy, if anything the cash shop is like a mini bar. Nothing you can't easily live without, you can save some time by grabbing something from it, or you can walk down the street and grab something for a little more effort/time.
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I was going to originally use the minbar as an example, but it gets dumb because like you said, You can just walk down the street to avoid the stupid pricing. The problem is with a MMO is the ENTIRE POINT OF THE GAME is to spend effort/time, not money. If you want to throw money at a game, go to a casino. At least you get liquor.
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Originally Posted by Yasi
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not being able to buy some pp killed it for me at some point.
I wouldn't really call daybreak's model p2w (I am not used to the term p2a - what is p2a?) but I guess that also depends on where you get your fun out of a MMORPG. If you want to be the fastest leveler, then it is p2w. But if you don't care if you're the first to reach max level, it doesn't rly matter. You can't buy anything that makes your character stronger than other characters - which would be p2w for me and ruin my experience.
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P2A pay to advance/advantage.
You can use krono to play.
You can buy krono with cash.
You can trade krono with players.
So, the economy is based heavily around krono, considering, yknow, krono enables play (or your own cash)
So...You can buy krono, and trade it for anything else that is normally trade-able (and probably loot rights, etc)
Now, The next argument will be "But you can only use it for subscriptionszzz111!!!!
Yeah, but you can be 100% fucking sure that its opened up a "black market" for krono. You can probably find krono cheaper than what you can find it from the server store from illegitimate sources.
"But I don't use those sources so it doesn't matter to me!"
"Those people get banned!"
Yeah, and?
The market revolves around krono, the server prints krono, sells them to players. Some use them, some trade them, some farm like old *insert nationality here* gold farmers on WOW. Even if they DO get banned, the market is still fucked, server still gets their cash, and prints new krono. It's actually beneficial for the gold farm mentality to the server owners, because the small percentage of people that they catch and ban, the server is essentially refunding themselves the krono they inflated the market with, without having to give back the money that was originally paid for the krono.
Good for the bottom line, terrible game.