After being a Premium Member, I gotta say Paying is a big advantage, hidden P2W

[Crator]

Originally Posted by omega four

This isn't surprising at all.

Any one who states that PS2 (or any other F2P game) is not P2W is simply fooling themselves.

These F2P games are developed by for-profit businesses who have a simple goal of MAKING MONEY.

It's just that pay-to-win usually insinuates a negative meaning, especially in a PvP centric game. I think PS2 has done a pretty good job of not making the P2W aspect a negative thing though.

[omega four]

I don't regard P2W as a good or bad thing with respect to for-profit companies. Everyone is entitled to earning a living.

SOE didn't force any one to play PS2, its F2P game. SOE didn't force anyone to spend money while playing its F2P game, PS2.

So when SOE gives gamers who DO want to p2Win while playing PS2, SOE has that right and I don't think ill of SOE for doing so.

Originally Posted by Crator

It's just that pay-to-win usually insinuates a negative meaning, especially in a PvP centric game. I think PS2 has done a pretty good job of not making the P2W aspect a negative thing though.

[Crator]

Originally Posted by omega four

So when SOE gives gamers who DO want to p2Win while playing PS2, SOE has that right and I don't think ill of SOE for doing so.

Completely agree. It becomes a problem if it has a negative impact on the game however. In PS2 that means driving players away, in specific players who don't pay. Because that's the players who are trying the game with the hopes of keeping them. Remember, the majority of the content in PS2 are the players because it is exclusively PvP.

Because, in the end, if you aren't going to make the free-to-play experience enjoyable and in turn drive those players away keeping only the niche players who do pay, you may as well have made the game subscription based. The depth of the game in certain aspects would have been better sub based then.