Quote Originally Posted by Rockette View Post
"In some multiplayer free-to-play games, players who are willing to pay for special items or downloadable content may be able to gain a significant advantage over those playing for free."
- Wikipedia

Not "must". Willing.

In this case, paying to get dyes off mogstation is a helleva lot easier than getting retainers to buy them, paying around 1mil in ingame currency (depending on server), or your suggestion of paying for a second game account?
Bold added for emphasis. There was nothing "significant" about the advantage. The reward for fashion report is MGP and access to a shop that sells glamour items. The good weekly reward takes 80 points. The most points those dyes could have ever granted you would be 6. Scoring 100 gets you a title the first time you do it, and thats it. And a lot of weeks none of the rare dyes were used anyway. As for gold feathers, the recruit a friend campaign gives feathers as does the callback campaign. Generate a code and put it in the thread on the new player forum, bam free feathers. Have a friend that doesnt play anymore? Invite them back for a free weekend. They log in once for literally any time at all, bam free feathers.