Is this game pay to win?

[NUUSKIZ]

Need to know before i keep playing, some champs obviously seem better than others and unlocking them takes forever

[Supa]

Think it as a pay to play where theyre giving you a chance to play the more barebones version for free... It takes forever to grind the currency for champs (they start you off with +200k thinking youre close). Atleast they give you a chance to buy all the characters for 20-30 and that includes all the future content. In many free to play games with character rotations it is an ongoing business where unlocking all of them will take easily multiple hundreds which is where I start calling the game pay/grind to win instead of regular priced product.

[Nomork]

Yes, it is!

[Lord Bullingdon]

It's not p2w in any way whatsoever.

[ᑕᖇEᗩᗰYᑕᖇᑌᑎᑕᕼ]

no. You can get everthing just by playing even then its only cosmetics and characters

[Berserkerkitten]

You can pay 20 Bucks right now once to unlock every playable character for life. Alternatively, there's a free rotation and you get to (slowly) unlock characters by playing the game. All other purchases are strictly cosmetic. How that's supposed to be "pay2win" is beyond me.

[Fire.Ant]

It's not at all. Character skills are mostly inconsequential in the fight, as your skill dictates the outcome in too major way. Furthermore, the 'Free' character you receive - Ranger - has a brilliant ability that is hardly 'the weakest' in the game. It's mobility, it's damage, it's instakill. Most abilities are pretty much toolbox additions to the classic Quake kit and if you pick a supposedly OP character it won't cheese you through better players.

[baboon]

Yes.

[The Badman]

No, the default free character (ranger) has incredibly useful skills and passive.
And the character you can get shortly after the tutorial has a get out of jail free card that CAN damage people at the same time.

[Yakumo]

Absoluely not because

• You can win with pretty much any of the champions, Ranger is the starter champ and he's brilliant
  
• You can pretty easilly earn the rest for free anyway (loot drops, favor, or the 100 weekly platinum)
  
• In case there's any confusion, all the skins/attachments etc are purely cosmetic.

[Ma⊆ Fancy ♕]

Originally posted by MIHAN:

Yes, it is!

lying ♥♥♥♥ lol

[jiggly]

Its not pay 2 win. Its pay 2 play.

[DISM@GE]

Originally posted by MIHAN:

Yes, it is!

its NOT!

[SynthZ]

not at all

[Niczu]

Originally posted by fail:

Yes.

Go troll somewhere else, this ain't your place.

[Chimz]

No my friend

To be comepletely honest, the free version only gives you two champions to give you a "taste" of what the game is like. If you like the GAMEPLAY, then after that you can grind your way (which will take long and is not that fun) or buy the champions pack to unlock all current and upcoming characters which I think is the best option considering it will cost less time and less money (if you want to unlock them by buying platinum)

The champions do not overpower the each other, they just offer different gameplay types. What matters is are they to your taste? Because even though Ranger is given to every type of player and everyone thinks he's just the starter guy, I still see high level pro players picking him and dominating while I can't do sh*t with him. It all comes down to your taste and gameplay.
I have a pro player friend (who participated in the free tournaments) who dominates as Clutch (even in Instagib where he is the biggest target) while I can't really play well with him. Why? He's not to my taste, but he is to my friend's, that's why he can win Instagib matches.

And since your taste changes from time to time (you know, somedays you like pizza and somedays you like cheeseburgers) it is best to unlock them all so you can play however you want whenever you want because through time, you will want to try them all.

I personally switched my main champions a lot through my 100 hours.
I think it's been like this: BJ>Galena>Scalebearer>Sorlag>Nyx>Strogg>Keel>Visor

Why did I change them so much? Because I get tired of eating pizza everytime or I like to try the new spicy food they've added to the menu.
For a while I liked setting traps while later on I liked throwing grenades at my enemies.


If you enjoy the gameplay, then I recommend you to buy the champions pack upgrade.
If not and you don't really connect to the Arena Shooter gamepaly, then you should probably go play games more suitable to your taste.



So overall, I'm saying it's not really a pay2win since Ranger is one of the most picked champions and Scalebearer can kick ass with the right gameplay (which is also given to you for free). And since you can grind new champs, I don't really see why you could call it pay2win. Yes, it does take long to grind champs but that's because they NEED to lure you to buy the champion pack. Why? Because making the game is their job, not a hobby. They need to put food on the table too.
Other free2play games either make it pay2win to get money or put in thousands of cosmetics. QC doesn't have a pay2win because it doesn't offer extra stats, damage and items and its cosmetics don't matter because unlike CSGO where having a knife is everyone's dream and makes everyone in the match envy you, here it just makes changes the looks a bit so you yourself would like your outfit. Half the times I can't tell if my enemy or teammate is using any other clothes than the default one because it doesn't matter. What matters is the fight. If you can fight well, no one gives a crap about what you look like.