Is this game p2w?

[BirdOfPray]

Can some whale waste $$$ and get advantage against normal players? Or is it only customization that real money can buy?

[BirdOfPray]

Originally posted by TheGhOsTGeneral:

Gets told it's not pay to win. Described how it's not pay to win. Random literally just posts "Yes, it's P2W" without backing up anything and author claims that answers it. Troll post confirmed I guess.

Most people are here delusional on p2w. Everyone starts saying "it's not p2w" and then proceeds to describe what kind of p2w game has. I am not touching my hand on this garbage.

[TheGhOsTGeneral]

Originally posted by BirdOfPray:

Originally posted by TheGhOsTGeneral:

Gets told it's not pay to win. Described how it's not pay to win. Random literally just posts "Yes, it's P2W" without backing up anything and author claims that answers it. Troll post confirmed I guess.

Most people are here delusional on p2w. Everyone starts saying "it's not p2w" and then proceeds to describe what kind of p2w game has. I am not touching my hand on this garbage.

Except you've been told multiple times, it's not pay to win. It's pay to progress a little faster, but not even that much. P2W is literally you can spend money to get better things to help you beat people in an unfair advantage. This game doesn't have that at all. As stated by multiple people.

[BirdOfPray]

Originally posted by TheGhOsTGeneral:

Originally posted by BirdOfPray:

Most people are here delusional on p2w. Everyone starts saying "it's not p2w" and then proceeds to describe what kind of p2w game has. I am not touching my hand on this garbage.

Except you've been told multiple times, it's not pay to win. It's pay to progress a little faster, but not even that much. P2W is literally you can spend money to get better things to help you beat people in an unfair advantage. This game doesn't have that at all. As stated by multiple people.

Again you're trying to describe how p2w is right after saying it's not pay to win. Progressing via real life money is pay to win. You get ahead of people who start as same time with you. So you can beat people in an unfair advantage. You, fanboys, keep lying to yourselves.

[Ace Maxima]

Yes I'd say it's pay to win. Microtransaction, same as pay to win, patato, patato.

[RolandKuley]

Originally posted by Zesty Grin:

Yes I'd say it's pay to win. Microtransaction, same as pay to win, patato, patato.

Microtransaction doesn't help to win. It just allows you to be able to evolve faster and unlock planes faster but a low level plane is not necessarily the weakest in combat (the F-5 which is the first plane in the game is also one of the best in the game for its agility and its devastating cannon) can beat a plane of the highest level because it is the piloting that counts.

[TheGhOsTGeneral]

Originally posted by BirdOfPray:

Originally posted by TheGhOsTGeneral:

Except you've been told multiple times, it's not pay to win. It's pay to progress a little faster, but not even that much. P2W is literally you can spend money to get better things to help you beat people in an unfair advantage. This game doesn't have that at all. As stated by multiple people.

Again you're trying to describe how p2w is right after saying it's not pay to win. Progressing via real life money is pay to win. You get ahead of people who start as same time with you. So you can beat people in an unfair advantage. You, fanboys, keep lying to yourselves.

Except you clearly have no idea what pay to win is. You can have the top jet in the game and lose to the first jet in the game. Progression isn't pay2win. Funny saying fanboy btw. I prefer WT over this. Barely touch it, I just don't blindly listen to people who don't know things. This game is anything but P2W. Want to see a P2W game? Go check out World of Tanks or World of Warships... Has premium ammo and stuff.

[HuggyDeathBunny🐰💀]

Looks suspiciously like a Phone Game port to me, having played all of 12mins on Epic. What that means is not P2W, but Pay To Avoid Grind, and the grind will be...Epic.

Cough

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.starform.metalstorm

[Lil Sprankles]

Not sure if anyone will like this take, but FWIW here it is.

TLDR; It's only pay to win if you consider unlocking everything "winning" theres NO advantage to the later planes over early planes though. Everything is pretty balanced i've found and I'm not even CLOSE to half of the planes yet.



The pay to win label gets thrown around constantly on reviews of free games. All I can think is that it comes down to what the individual considers "winning."

I find most of these games don't have completion *except* if you're the type of player that defines winning as racing to unlock everything. In that case, your patience will be tested and you're def going to think a lot of free to play games are pay 2 win. OF COURSE THEY ARE IF YOU HAVE THIS POV. That's how devs make money on free to play games. They capitalize on obsessive players that want it all ASAP. Also, there's money to gain from players that believe theres an advantage to late game content regardless if there is or not. Either way I totally respect that disposition and maybe that's just how you game. You will always be frustrated knowing there's whales out there with good paying jobs that enjoy putting money into a game and "racing" to catch up to the dev's latest content in hopes that there's supreme meta in the latest update.

Here's the flip side:

Take me for instance. I'm an adult american player (over 40) with the ways and means to pay to progress faster in any game that permits it. In my case, I don't care about unlocking everything RIGHT NOW. I know I can do it with my money whenever. I'm not bragging, i'm simply pointing out that it's GG EZ for me to just do that and not as thrilling as just playing the damn game. For me, free to play games are a marathon not a sprint and I enjoy the ride towards more and more of the content. Probably a "boomer take" but, trust me, once you kids get good jobs with a lot of disposable income, you'll see. Besides, the ADHD is gonna move you along to the next game in a month anyway.

As for metalstorm. I really enjoy the quick arcadey matches and want to win those matches. That's actually the game object of the game for me. I love that I'm rewarded seemingly win or lose because of the missions. There's a thrill to the gameplay loop of play and progress even if it's slower than some players might like. Ultimately, I've found NO advantages from plane to plane. They are all well balanced and have their pros and cons that make it up to the pilot to decide what they're comfortable using.

At the end of the day, this is how i believe all free to play games operate:

Do you want to "win" all the content as quickly as possible? There's your answer. You pay money to get it all and get that dopamine hit until you move on to the next free to play.

If you really enjoy the the core game and try to win match after match with different planes, it's not pay to win. There's no way to get any sort of technological advantage that i've seen and it's truly based on skill.

Just play the game for yourself on epic and see.

Remember it's free?