Thorian Baalnorn
Bad Influence
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Posted - 2016.02.12 20:15:51 -
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The following features are pay to win in eve:
1) Plexes ( allows you have a supply of isk only limited by your real life expendable income)
2) Multiple accounts( Allows you to create cyno alts, specialist alts, intel alts, or 40 miners and rorq pilot)
3) Multiple character training ( Allows you to skill up alts and your main at the same time giving you a significant advantage)
4) Skill injectors ( turns you from newb to pro-leet faster than you can say epipen.)
All of these things can be considered pay to win...except one tee-tiny little problem. Eve is not designed as a P2W game. While these may give you advantages, They are not going to put you in god mode. And people are still going to blow your stuff up and take your stuff and its still going to be based on actual player skill not how many iskies you got.
Honestly, players who dont have all these advantages tend to be better at the game because they are less careless as everything has more value to them. Tossing money at eve will always result in a loss of money. Someone will always be able to get the jump on you or outdo you and that person may very well be someone that just spends $15 a month and thats it.
Edit to add: If you want to see a true P2W game, jump on your phone, download "game of war" and observe. You will need to spend $100 a month just to survive in that game, and several hundred a month to be even close to top in your kingdom( and there are many kingdoms)
That game has a super high turnover rate, like all P2W games. It also has almost no entertainment value whatsoever and you spend all your time buying stuff and using it to progress a little further in the game. One little mistake and some bigger players stomps a mudhole in your back side and you have to rebuild everything which puts you even further behind. Unless you dump hundreds of more $$$ into the game for instant training.
That is P2W, Eve is no where close to P2W.
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