Quote Originally Posted by Abriael View Post
Pay to win indicates a situation in which whoever pays can access gameplay options that people that don't pay don't have access to.
Can't say I know where you heard that. From what I understand Pay to win meerly means any game that encourages you to pump money into it for overwhelming advantages that others need to work for (Or as you stated can never aquire without paying). While Exclusive content falls under the catagory it's far from the only use of Pay to win.

In this scenario players who are willing to pay more, have a advantage that other players do not despite the fact they all pay the same subscription fee.

It's one of many ways to monitize your game, but it's not really in the players interest do have such a system (IMHO of course). Of course people could work around it depending on the game system where rare and hard to obtain items that can't be obtained with any ammount of gil (Aside from hiring merc groups) gain large ammount of value it happens in many MMOs where the in-game currency is over-inflated, or easilly obtained without putting the normal ammount of work into it.

Ultima Online was like this, there was no PLEX system but Gold had reached such a rediculous abundance that it in itself became nearly worthless and the only way to really trade was with other items. It's not a good thing when your players start to consider bartering as the best way to get a fair deal...