Quote Originally Posted by Taaralatie View Post
But if it weren't for the platinum spending there wouldn't be a game. STS has people to pay...they don't all work for free unfortunately. They have families to feed. If you want an exciting game to play you have to have pay for exciting developers. They don't come cheap. Ultimately it comes down to choice. I could afford to buy an 80 plat elixir but I choose not to. I do however buy an exceedingly large number of 40 plat elixirs but, again, this is a choice. If no one used real money to support a game...how long would it remain on the market for you to play? The great thing is that you don't have to pay play. You can get all the content for free. Awesome!
No one expects devs to work for free. What many of us don't like is the devs choice to sell elixirs as a business model. Elixirs are too game changing for some of us and we'd prefer they go a different direction to make money. DL sells weapons, vanities, etc and plat elixirs are on the way out (at least the luck elixirs). IMO, that's a much better business model than selling elixirs.

I admit, most of us who are against elixirs are oldies who remember what PL was like before elixirs when you actually had to have bears who gathered, mages who buffed and healed and birds who used ranged and killed. Now all you have to do is use a thrasher and mash ur buttons.