I Am All For Pay To Win, Are You?

I bought into the pre-launch hype and own two copies of SWTOR Collector's Edition, mainly due to the promised "exclusive" CE Store where I hoped to spend real money to buy "exclusive" virtual items.

Why would you buy 2 CE versions of the game "mainly" because of the store? You wouldn't need to 2 versions of the game for that. Also, you didn't do much research before you spent your money because it was made clear before launch that the CE store would basically have vanity and cosmetic items, not any P2W items. Also, it was made clear that the CE store would not be a "real money" store.

Also, XP boosts aren't really "pay to win". They are "pay to level faster". That's hardly "winning". There's several sources out there from interviews, etc. where they've said they aren't going to make the game pay to win, so I wouldn't hold your breath there.

Damn it! I wish I had a better memory. I listened to a podcast, maybe it was TorWars, and they were talking about P2W. Apparently a guy from Bioware gave an interview to this German MMO podcaster. The German guy brought the idea of P2W up. The guy from Bioware said that P2W would be a disaster in a game like SWTOR. He went on to say it would never happen. ****! I wish I could give a link, but I would put a large sum of money on SWTOR not being P2W.

I don't understand the outlash againt the idea of pay to win. Lets consider the extreme example of two players. Once has little to no obligations on his time, so he chooses to spend 10 hours of it a day in SW:TOR. He quickly reaches the pinnacle of each class in skill and gear, thanks to the large amount of time he is able to spend. No one complains about this man. But look at our other player. He has work and family and other obligations for a large majority of his day, meaning he can only spend at most 1 hour a day playing SW:TOR. He doesn't level up very fast, and once he does reach 50 he is left behind gear wise since he just doesn't have the time to learn the raids and get the gear. He loves the game, but is on the verge of quitting because he cannot participate in the game.

So tell me, why is it okay for the first player to leverage his lack of obligations into in-game success, but verboten for the second player to utilize his real life obligations to do the same?

And, in a completely unrelated question, free to play users will have limited pvp matches per day, meaning limited gains of pvp commendations and slower pvp gear acquisition. How is giving paying subscribers quicker access to better gear not pay to win? If pay to win is anything that gives one player an advantage in end game, how is unlimited war zones and access to operations for paying subscribers not pay to win?

MMOs all have one major drive that keeps people playing them, and it isnt doing new and exciting content, its getting the newmore powerful and coller looking gear. Some people may say thats not why they play but they are either lying to themselves, ignorant or in the very small minority.

The second you let anyone just buy the gear other people put time in to get, the game is going to die, and i dont mean dead like it is now, i mean really dead as in 15 people still play it.

Firstly, I am not a troll