Is this a pay to win game?

[KawasakiNabueh]

Guys is this game need to pay more for win?

[SSGSS Black Edgy Powerpuff Girl]

Talking about PvE, you'll be able to grind easily without spending a whole € ; $ ; or whatever you use as real currency (especially with the winter sales.)

For PvP, you'll probably have an advantage, by advantage I mean you'll by more easily geared, but as long as you grind by yourself, you can still have a chance to beat an o opennent.

What I can recommend is if you really want to have fun in PvP is to find someone equally geared.

[S0YxSauCe]

Yes. This is an old game and its one of the most P2W.

[Shinsu]

Originally posted by S0YxSauCe:

Yes. This is an old game and its one of the most P2W.

I disagree, this game is not pay to win, sure you can buy a few cash items to make the process of becoming OP faster, but the things you can get by paying with real money can also be obtained through pure gold. Still, buying a bit of cash is good to help the server grow.

[Monitoka]

Originally posted by S0YxSauCe:

Yes. This is an old game and its one of the most P2W.

That's crap, totally crap.
This game is the only so called "free to play" game I am proud to say it has all the rights to be called "free to play". Honestly, you can reach anything within this game without spending a single cent. All you need is ingame farming.
Yes, you can invest something if you like to "to speed things up", but this game does not force you to spend money on anything at any point in the game.

This game is a true "free to play" game.

[YuriCake]

Pay2Win? Pffft. No pay2win here. I don't know where S0YxSauCe plays, maybe on one of these crappy unofficial p-servers where the "responsibles" fill their wallets with "selling" work from others. However, I never saw a f2p game which is so less p2w like this. You don't need to spend any dime for this game, but if you like it and if you want to keep it alive and if you think you could speed up your journey, then you can spend a bit for sure. Also I think the prices are very reasonable compared to the many other "f2p" games, which are milking the hell out of your wallets.

[SSGSS Black Edgy Powerpuff Girl]

No need to be salty here.

It is a true fact that every servers were Pay2Win, but through the past years, the NA server (this one) managed to slowly make the grind available for every players.

Most of the Cash Shop items were untradable on this server before, and on the other - dead - official servers (especially those from EU) they were extremely overpriced.

@YuriCake I'm affraid to say that some MOBAs are less P2W than this game. But this game shouldn't be compared to MOBAs, for some reason.

[Mørk]

Its fun seeing people defend p2w back in the day haha.

[SSGSS Black Edgy Powerpuff Girl]

Originally posted by Vandbolle:

Its fun seeing people defend p2w back in the day haha.

This game was fundamentally designed to be absolutely P2W as every korean MMOs are.
When the game had was no longer supported by its dev, about the time when this thread was posted GMs were actually trying their hardest to alleviate P2W by making everything in the game accessible, including the cash items.

Now years have gone, said GMs got promoted to devs and they added new and exclusive cash items, removed or nerfed ways to obtain old items and forcing an experience where even if you draw a blurry line for the definition of P2W it's just impossible to defend.

It might look funny if you check the game as it currently stands but context matters.

[saar]

Totally p2w, comments here say you can get things for free "on paper yes" irl you can't because the grind to get it with farming is way way way too terrible which eventually if you want to get to end game you will need to pay. Plus the admins do updates every single time to make it harder for you playing for free so you will need to pay money. The worst thing though that everybody complain the grind is too hard, but the admins don't care because they are greedy their attitude to players is the worse things by far. You criticizing the game might get you banned for good. Generally cry babies if you didn't start playing I suggest you dont even start invest your time in a place that appreciate their players and that don;t ♥♥♥♥ on their head!!!!

[O.K]

you can buy cosmetics with extra stats that boost your dmg on the early game by a ton yeah its kinda p2w