Hotbars needed to hotswap, hotswapping needed to compete at EG and Midgame.
The game is pay to win, but not everyone has to pay, but someone somewhere does. Everyone assumes that just because a game needs people to pay some money in it somewhere it is a bad game. How does this make sense? The game has to stay afloat somehow...
CH is pay to win, if no one pays the game collapses from the players side. This isn’t a bad thing though and I’d argue CH is reasonably balanced. Not everyone has to pay, only a small portion do, and overall anyone can get to EG without paying.
Yes that’s what I mean! Someone has to pay but overall the game is very f2p friendly, but imo still p2w aspects
Pay to play, not pay to win. Read previous posts for reference
Do you mind explaining pay to play Zkills? I am a little confused myself as when I think of pay to play it's either you can't reasonably play the game without paying something (using premium items) to make the experience bearable, or enjoyable in any way, or of course straight up pay to play would be would be you have to buy the game to play it. But that's still confusing to me. You can definitively have fun playing CH even without any premium items at all, you might just have to have fun hunting frozen and DL and maxing out those battle companions instead of killing it at EG. Winning for me is getting to the end of the game therefore since premium are required for endgame I consider that more ptw then ptp.
Using your own definition for ptw there is still the question of is it an unfair advantage for people who pay to progress at a significantly faster rate than those who don't, as that is seemingly the only real difference. If your not buying plat, you have to farm for everything others just buy, and each hour you farm they are presumably getting further and further ahead, so they will likely reach EG days or weeks before those who don't and have much better gear. If anything time is the ultimate advantage in this game as with enough time you can do anything and you can do nothing without it, so the more time you save and gain, the better off you are.
The other thing that gets me is the fact that buying plat is more efficient than just playing the game. Lixing is essentially worth 45 mins of your time, and I'm pretty sure with minimum wage people make more than enough for that.
Not gonna lie, this game is 100% pay to win.
I agree that the game is pay to win in the sense that it is nearly impossible to progress past midgame without using premium items...but you personally don’t really have to pay...someone else can, and then sell you the stuff for ingame gold. Sure, it’s easier if you buy it yourself, saves time farming, but it still is possible to do well without paying a cent.
So simply put, not at all.
It is possible to achieve the best gear and even own shop items without spending any real currency, and many of our high level players do that.
It would be helpful to include a specific definition when making such bold posts Difinitus, especially considering the significant amount of different understandings people are likely to have of the term. Also, if I understand your position correctly it is that something is only pay to win if there are things that are only obtainable in the game by paying real money for. Now technically I can see that anything in the game is obtainable without personally paying real money for it, however I always like to include a reasonable amount of reason and reasonability while analysing something, as I'm sure you also do, so while it is mathematically possible for a ftp player to get any item in the game is it reasonable? In other words, is there a reasonable way for a ftp player (and no grinding/merching the crap out of the hell of this game for however many thousands of hours is not reasonable) to obtain a maxed out dragon pet? I think 2.5m is actually a reasonable amount of gold for an egg so if you need 36 eggs that's a grand total of 90m. Now that is possible, heck I'm sure some players have that much. Ftp? I don't know if someone's gotten that far but is it reasonable...