That's exactly my point (at least what I hinted at through my question). I'm all for a business making money and profiting from their hard work, but this business model is insulting.
TL;DR Just read it How people can honestly attempt to defend this price scheme and business model is beyond me. It's so blatantly p2w, anyone who tries to defend that it isn't has either dumped a large amount of money into the game or simply hasn't played enough of it. As mentioned before, there are f2p games with cash…