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Lineage w pay to win11/3/2023 ![]() The community is very good, as I’ve often stated, so it’s pretty damn easy to get virtually anything in the game. Warframe: You can farm anything in Warframe, with enough time and help. Plus, the combat’s honestly a lot of fun. You could have the best gear in the game, and not know what you’re doing – then you die, and your dps suffers. What ultimately equalizes things is how important knowledge and skill is in dungeons/raids. However, in TERA, having amazing gear does not make you good at the game. TERA has PVP, but I’ve never seen anyone laud it as important or even fun. To me, pay-to-go-faster is only a serious detriment in heavy PVP games, which TERA does not feel like. I do feel like it is pay-to-go-faster, but that’s not the worst thing in the world. But do I think TERA is pay-to-win? I certainly do not. Gold is the most important resource in TERA, as well as time. Spending lots of money on lootboxes can give you an absolute mountain of resources, but there are enough events that go on in-game to help you level quickly and gain resources. I feel like TERA might be a controversial opinion, but according to my conditions of what “pay-to-win” is, it works just fine. Some of the cosmetics have some stats, but like Closers, it’s not a massive amount of stats that will put you head-and-shoulders above everyone in the world. Needed to succeed? Not in any way – but they are VERY nice. There are plenty of convenience items you can purchase, there are mounts to buy, and the optional subscription does offer a few things that are definitely convenient. Once you’re at level cap, your time is mostly spent grinding trying to get better gear, but the actual leveling and playing experience have not needed money to enjoy. TERA: TERA is incredibly grindy, I’m not going to argue that at all. Convenience items are fine if they do not otherwise gate content.PVP Games with real-money cash shops are not allowed (unless you do not have to PVP).But at the end of the day, convenience items are fine, provided it does not force you into situations where you’re at a serious disadvantage in PVP combat without them. ![]() Kudos to Closers to removing their need for Stamina, and having Stamina Items in the shop. Convenience items are not the end of the world unless you absolutely must have them. Games that are heavy-PVP focused with cash shops are games I want to avoid because I would not recommend players diving into these without spending real money. That’s why games like Black Desert Online and ArcheAge will not be on this list. Are there games that are very brutal and use their cash shop to gate content and slow players down? Of course, there absolutely are. Does that mean any game with convenience items is a bad, terrible thing that should be avoided at all costs? Absolutely not. Can you think of one that doesn’t? Even World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy XIV has them! It’s a part of the ecosystem now, and it likely is thanks to mobile gaming and f2p MMOs. Nowadays, virtually every MMO has convenience items to help players go a little bit faster. This is not a comprehensive list, just a couple that players may want to take a peek at. ![]() Jason will outline what he defines as pay-to-win before listing these games, do not worry. Some are in the camp of ‘any convenience item is automatically a pay-to-win game, no matter what’, some are not. Editor’s Note: Pay-to-Win means different things to different people.
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