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

[Roth_Trailfinder]

You asked if I was asking its purpose, but you were already affirmed in your belief that I was it seems, however incorrect you are. I will restate that no, I was asking how you determine that this is pay to win. Please don't deflect the true question and kindly answer.

I could not believe that at this point you, or anyone, had to ask what the advantage of this thing would be. The advantage it provides is the very thing that it provides : skipping content.

As for how to know it is pay to win, that's simple. And, for that matter, it was stated in posts around the one which I answered you with :
It is spending out-of-game currency for some form of in-game advantage.

What the advantage is, is irrelevant. That it is an advantage for someone is what matters. That it is not at end game is also irrelevant.

Changing the scenario changes the outcome. Not everything is as cut and dry as you would like to think.

My point was that at one time, this exact thing (i120/i130 gear, 2.55 completed, level 50) would have been considered Pay to Win. Or are you disputing that?

Nothing has been changed about the jump itself. Change the scenario changes the outcome, sure - but the scenario has not changed (i120/i130 gear, 2.55 done, level 50). The only difference is you are past that. The scenario is not "bring them up to your level" the scenario is, as SE stated, "bring them up to X level". Whether you, I, the game, is at or past X level does not change the scenario.

The scenario, as described be SE though explicitly stated not to be, is still Pay to Gain X Power - which IS Pay to Win.