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The fact that you keep repeating this line of thinking has persuaded me into thinking that you don't understand the gravity of the situation at all, where as before you could have been viewed as just biased but not completely clueless.

Not every game aspires to be pay to win. But when you do not account for the ways RMT can push your game and create unnecessary pain points that will trigger a rush for said RMT you inadvertently create p2w whether you like it or not. Ashes was and continues to be the hope to not be a p2w open world PvP game. The reason they were the hope was that they were in a 'unique position' where they could design around the many failures from other games regarding p2w and RMT practices. You can only design around them if you want to.

If this goes through in its current form, either Steven is surrounded by yes-men or he managed to hire a majority of people who think like him, in which case enjoy. In the end its up to what Steven wants. We can only hope he is making his choice out of an informed understanding aligning with what he really wants not an emotional desire to protect what he thinks will lead to what he wants.