Quote Originally Posted by morfic View Post
Pay-to-win isn't a term that ensures automatic victory through items.

Pay-to-win is just a term that was coined from being able to by the best equipment with money. People who put little to no effort into their gear, now have the possibility to perform just as well as people who did. It just belittles the work others have put in for those same (or worse) stats on gear.
As long as the f2p gear is equivalent to the p2p gear, I don't see it as a problem. In order for a f2p game to profit, while still being able to truly fly the "f2p-flag", the developers should sell only things of convenience and vanity. As long as the developer is only selling items equivalent to the f2p items, they are only selling a convenience, and not a benefit. Whether or not a player feels "belittled" is honesty irrelevant. Despite being "f2p", the game still needs to make a profit, and if they can profit off of things that do not give paying players a clear advantage over non-paying players, I see no problem.