Cosmetic Shop is P2W

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Nah, it's cause Dygz is literally an old man. Definitely one of the older (if not one of the oldest) members of this forum. He has a shitton of real mmo experience and usually a drastically different pov on most things. But what's most important in this context, is that his pov on this subject is the closest to yours out of everyone who's been in this thread.

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And I didn't say that you should have the same perspective. I said that he's the only one who's closest to potentially understanding your perspective. But from your exchange of comments it's obvious that your pov is as far from his as from anyone else in this thread.

I just thought that I failed to understand your pov due to my limited knowledge of RP, but it wasn't because of that (because Dygz has way more knowledge and still didn't agree), it was because your pov is so extremely opposite to the absolute majority of people I know (both on and outside of this forum).

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Because that promise is the literal proof that cosmetic store is not p2w? Because in Steven's eyes, if the "best looking, most glorious, insanely amazing" cosmetic is earned in-game and not through the store - then the store cannot be p2w by definition.

So you not only disagree with our definition of p2w, but Steven's too. Otherwise he wouldn't have to promise people that exact thing.

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Oh, I didn't forget that. I said "not only ours, but Steven's too" exactly because for Steven it seems to be an objective thing. I personally disagree with him because I couldn't care less about cosmetics and hate that other people do so much that studios implemented transmog as a feature. But apparently enough people do agree with his pov, which is why you're in the minority who disagrees with it for other reasons than mine.

But as you said, no one can determine which one is the best, so there's no basis for calling it p2w. And as I've said in another post, the only way to call the existence of the cosmetic store p2w is to say that you want a very specific item from it. But we have 0 fucking clue which items it'll have (and as Dygz said, most items will just be variants of particular gear pieces), so right now you're just fighting imaginary potentials of what said shop could have instead of a concrete concept/design/feature that has been shown already.