Got to level 42 this weekend, got a Guise and a few Wisdom items and focus items.
Spents $0 on ornaments to make my weapons look stupid, on exp potions or on any other stupid cash shop shit. A P99 pal did use a group EXP Potion for my group in Unrest one evening, the next day I repaid him by giving him a Ring of the Ancients, gotta love porting into SRo and ancient cyclops being on track!
If you want to let people's choice to spend money on shit be your reason to not play there that's fine. But it's certainly not a requirement by any means. You can faceroll through some content with characters in rags and have a good time doing it regardless of whether your rolling in EXP potions or can't figure out how to open up the marketplace window.
I think at its peak I saw 20 picks of about 30 people in each LGuk instance. Good fun was had by all. Got trained a few times, got revenge a few times and lost a few named mobs to kill stealers. Didn't have to go to a GM to resolve any issues I had, just figure it out myself. Felt good.
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