This thread and it's replies clearly shows that players are capable of twisting facts into the way they want it to be interpreted.

OP: "Pay gils to win is also considered pay-2-win".

Multiple replies:
- "It's less 'pay to win' and more 'pay to catch up so you can go into a static". (sorry, but your words is suitable for my example).
- Mercing content has been done in every MMO since the dawn of... whenever the first MMO was.
- I don't think it is necessarily unfair or cheating, even, to have people pay hard-earned gil for carries.

Right, so this has been around since start of MMO and it's not unfair or cheating but look!! The cash-shop which we accepted and agreed in the ToS is NOT OKAY and it clearly gives an UNFAIR advantage to rich players. *Proceeds to make multiple threads whining and complaining about it*.

I lol-ed.