Story of ANY MMO with cash shops.
Why play the video game when you can take your mothers credit card and buy everything to make it so you have to play less of the game and later on you can go on with your E-Ego saying your pro because you can type in 16 digit number and security code.
Just KvM with guildies and friend. Won't be fast but what do you expect for some of the better weapons/gear ingame.
Just wanted to point out that...
this "theory" of yours only applies to immature kids (which is fine ofcourse, its a game).
In case people havent noticed, many of the veterans/players of this game are past their early 20's in age, many in mid,late 20,s some are even in their 30's and 40's.
most people in this age group have their own credit/debit cards to pay-2-win for themselves, who wants to get owned or left behind, when the possibility is there?
Let me share a short example.
Youre in your mid-20s, have a job, a career and some spare time to play some online games you truely enjoy... lets say about 3 hours a day for a full-time working man.
kids who go to school, come home, play games 24/7 have alot of spare time to quote *play-2-win
We simply dont have that option. either we pay for the extra benefits to even have a chance of KEEPING UP, or stay behind and be a noob all our lives with horrible gears.
Now lets say you make $20 an hour on your job. (which is what a normal 4 year university graduate could be making at the start of his job).
We can now chose to spend the rest of our day farming gears and MVP's (I dont know how grinding same mob for hours on end spamming 1 skill or hunting same MVP over and over again makes you a better player but sure), hoping to making some zeny, or just spend an hour equivelent of work in the real world($20), and come up with 150~200m in zeny. (another example; how much better did you actually get in terms of "skills" going from level 100 to level 130? dont know if you have one in that level range, but I feel I was just as good with micro/control of my character when I was level 100, as I am now at level 130+.)
I pay my way to my items, but its definetly not for the "EGO" of being able to say I HAVE BETTER ITEMS THAN YOU! HA, its so that we can stand on a even playing field with those who have been playin the game for years and years/those who have the time to play 10 hours a day.
if youre going to say "why play the game if youre not going to actually work at it",
I will say "its a game, and it was ment to be enjoyed in any way people feel it should be enjoyed for themselves, and if this is how I enjoy it, why does it matter to you?"
Also, all of you who never spend any money.... be glad there are plenty of those so-called "rich kids" you guys like to bash on because theyre keeping your so-called "free-2-play" valkyrie servers running and GM's paid. without us, you wouldnt even have a server to log onto.
Edited by Hallows, 13 February 2011 - 12:03 AM.