Yeah...there's too many games where the pay-items are essential for game advancement, and ultimatly cost far more than any subscription game.
The smarter (or should I say, more prefered) companies tend to load in mostly cosmetic items, fashion items or "speed-ip" equivelants, to make the game run smoother and/or quicker, but by no means easier and should in no way give any real advantage.
Evony, I find, is extremely good for this; in fact, I can't think of another game that has the CS as such an optional part of the game. Many of the top-rankin' Evony players can say they've never spent any money on the game whatsoever, and have access to 100% of the features that CS users get. The only advantage to bein' a CS user is the guarantee. You're guaranteed medals from a box, whereas Valley raids are at random. You're guaranteed your mich.script from CS, whereas valley raids, amulets and attacks come in at random (and even then, you can cap NPC10s for lv10 buildin's)...
Whoever says that payers in Evony have any kind of serious advantage over non-payers has their head up their arse...



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