in-game item-shop pay to win

[Lurch87]

Beta is only letting us unlock tier 1 at the moment as far as I know.

you can buy the higher tiers using the bits they provided us with.

[Felpxp]

Well, I got a little sad when I saw in the game's market itens that are not only costetic, like the boxes or weapons(but it is not avaliable yet). If they want to have a sucessfull MMO, they need to learn that making players that pay way stronger than other make the game boring really fast, specially if I paid for the game.
I hope when they realese the game, remove the "weapon" tab and the option to buy boxes with cash...it is just not the way a B2P MMO should be.

[juju]

think of it this way how long would you take to gather the resources to buy a lockbox lvl 3-4.

lets for example say u take 30 mins which is not to gather the resources to buy a lock box lvl 4 so u need an hour to buy 2 of them a cash user can buy withing that time more then 20 if he wants so its like unlimited for him as long as he got the cash.

the more of those boxes you buy the higher you chance for a good weapon.

[Dixa]

i don't know if there were any topics about this but i have not seen any yet.

when the game came out as in going to be buy to play game i thought of a game where you just buy and play even if an item-shop exist it would be cosmetic. however i found out that its not the case after i started playing the beta weekend i found out that there are lock-boxes in item-shop how can a normal player keep up with a person who has a few dollars? the guy will have a much higher chance in occurring a high level unique weapon while an average player has to farm all day long for days in order to get 1 so in end the guy that pays has the highest chance how is that cosmetic? that has nothing to do with cosmetic even so im not happy with the ingame exp cash and ego boost its still not (overpowered)=not sure if its the right word.

so how can i keep up with a cash user? do i have to spend day and night farming in order to get a chance to get a good wep?

srry for my english.

it's not pay to win. the lockboxes are straight gambling, and over the weekend i had enough key fragments to open 12 tier 4 boxes.

this may change in live but for this beta you did not need much scrip for anything. therefore i broke down everything into resources and turned all of those into key fragments.

lastly, pay to win is generally a term coined to a game like battlestar galactica online, where the best weapons and ammo are only available from the cash shop. here you can earn them through in game means just like in star trek online. yes paying money may get them faster and for people who are overworked but don't want to be left in the dust that is what this is designed to do. however you really never have to pay a dime to the shop so long as you are patient.

if everyone was patient and paid nothing to the shop, how long do you think the servers could be kept operational and the game profitable?