Actually i dont understand you but if you would think u would know that all sts games are based on platinum because platinum is the only way to earn much in a "free" online game. And to finish my opinion you coild be happy that there are chancse to get rich with farming and merching. I know many online games which cost nothing but the only way to get rich there is the way to spend real money for ingame content.

So see it as a support to sts if you spend money in al because without platin there wont be any game from sts

PS: I am from germany sorry if i write anything wrong