
Originally Posted by
133spider
"if you want nice things"
those are, just as I said, cosmetics and have no effect on the game whatsoever other than its looks...
Yeah right.
There are obvious shortcuts built in for players in possession of Mem/AC's. Any class that's not rare in the game? Buy for 2k AC's. Don't want to waste your time with the endless and boring grindfest for merge shop resources or reputation and haven't heard of le bot? Membership quests.
Besides this, the RPG aspect of the game is DEAD. The story is a joke and a wildly insipid one at that.
In its slow death, AQW has evolved into a dress up game: you win by looking the coolest. For a majority of the time, the best looking Capes/Armors/Helms/Weapons are Legendary or AC only. If they aren't, they take an obscene amount of brain atrophying, wrist carpal tunneling, time dissipating farming for the non members to get. In this aspect, yes, the game is pay to win.
And while you failed to address Xaviar's point, he's right. They are endlessly re-skinning and reselling the same designs over and over again.
One example, the amount of phoenix blades released in AQW: 13 times they've released the phoenix blade design into AQW. 13.
AE has just created a flash dress up game for teenage boys, they might as well put in the effort to be original with their fashion designs. Especially if their designs have real life price tag on them.