Naoki Yoshida's Comment in Regard to Jump Potions/Boost Potions

[Roth_Trailfinder]

They get a very basic set of gear to help them progress through the new content. i120 gear is NOT i270 gear. There is a very vast gap in quality of equipment there, and you can only get i270 gear at the current gear cap, which they still have to actually pay through heavensward to even get too. And like I said, its only to speed up the process to get to the end. They are only making it to the end faster than ther person not buying a potion, and in the end, they are both going to the same place, so why does it matter who gets there first?

If 1 person speed levels from 1-60 in 2 days, and 1 person levels from 1-60 in 2 months, they both end up at the same place, so why does it matter who got there first. person 1 may have bought a jump potion to skip from 1-50, but again, thats all they are getting. They aren't winning anything except for a race, that doesn't even matter...

Irrelevant. That i120 gear is better than the starting gear, is it not?

Pay to win. Not to beat you, but to beat the person who also just started. Cite the whole example or not at all, because context matters.

The "race" as you put it does not matter. You are correct about that. Relevancy of what the buyer is winning does not change the Pay to Win nature of the jump potion.