Asheras wrote on Sep 3
rd, 2019 at 2:43pm:
The store sells things besides P2W. Things like Bells of Opening, Airship Beacons, Inventory space, Bank Space, Gold Seal Hirelings, Spell components, thieves tools, etc.
There are a lot of "I can't be bothered to run to house J (or whereever) to get it. I'll just buy it."
If someone does want to spend like mad for no real advantage though, then who cares? Someone spent $500 to get to cap using gold rolls on day 1 or 2. Reincarnated (spending more DDO points on a heart, probably) and promptly died at a low level. That 34 point build and 1 PL did him a lot of good.
You want to argue about how unfair the playing field is in a game you aren't even playing in? When people playing it are telling you it doesn't really matter. OK. Think what you want.
Says the store sells things other than p2w, then proceeds to list a bunch of p2w things as proof. LOL.
I don't think you understand what p2w means. It's simple. Since you can't seem to figure it out on your own, I'll help. Varying degrees of p2w are STILL p2w...
Anything that provides an in-game advantage to your character that can be purchased with $$/points is p2w, regardless of whether or not the same items could be farmed. When you buy it with money (the pay part), you paid for the advantage (the win part). If nothing else, you're paying to shortcut the grind.
Most cosmetics and pets are not p2w as they don't provide any in-game benefit. Almost everything is to some degree p2w.
Bank space might be debatable, but even then, having 200 shared bank space slots to hoard up a bunch of RNG gear for your new HC toons still gives you an advantage over someone with the default amount of slots so even that's probably still p2w.
Anyone who says you can't drop $$ on a bundle of points and gain a significant advantage with p2w stuff in the in-game store over people who don't, especially on the HC server is just full of shit.
Stat and skill tomes, XP pots (moar RXP!), better heal pots, spell point pots, long lasting stat and buff pots, etc. etc. On barebones newbie toons with shit gear, those are a HUGE advantage.