You don't need to force your player into your cash shop to make money. Look at path of exile, that game is the perfect exemple of doing cash shop right. People spend money in GGG's cash shop because they want to support the game, not because they have to
I don't think anyone would call this game P2W if they removed the AD refinement daily cap. The current situation is grind for months/weeks because of the cap or pay and get everything instantly.
If you were to compare it to something it would be diablo 3 and its real money auction house Incoming white knights and fanboys claiming it's fine to have to grind for weeks and months to buy end game stuff and/or Basic cash shop items. Now if they removed the cap on how many AD you can refine a day and the conversion rate…
Unless something massive changed since the march closed beta then what i said is true. I made it to 40'ish then i found out about the AD daily refinement cap and closed the game so, again. What make Aion P2W and not neverwinter?
How is aion (NA) P2W and not neverwinter when both game use the "pay or grind for months" method? Your bias is showing Atleast in aion NCsoft didn't put a cap on how many kinah you can farm a day. Unlike neverwinter
It's mostly pay2savetime grind for weeks or pay and get everything instantly (which is stupid) The daily cap on how many AD you can refine everyday scream, "Hey, buy zen!" though