Board Thread:Respawnables Discussion/@comment-24796871-20150813210247/@comment-26369130-20150816151820

Yarrrr wrote: I still consider Respawnables as a pay 2 win game.

Let's look at each event (That's when it started to become pay 2 win).


 * Easter Egg Hunt - Easter Bunny set that skips 3 tiers and helped the user collect eggs faster and avoid easter grenade ability. Guaranteed egg drops is by using Super Easter Grenades which costs gold, so the user is forced to buy more gold
 * Hand Grenade Fest (1st and 2nd) - Anti-Explosive set that skips 3 tiers and prevents grenades from killing them easily. Best grenade (Super/Ultra Grenade) uses gold and money respectively.
 * Road to Glory - Spec Ops set that skips 3 tiers.
 * Summer Camp - Close Quarters set that skips 3 tiers and helps the user in week 1
 * Ghostbusters 30th - Ghostbusters set that skips 3 tiers and helps the user to locate ghosts, reduce energy damage and no slow down from weapons. The most effective weapons for points require gold and money
 * Monster Mash - Warlock + Monster set that skips 6 tiers and helps the user do specific tiers. Shadow Hunter set to allow the user to do any tier and kill anyone for the tier.
 * Ninja Path - Cyber Ninja set that skips 3 tiers and gives rank points per kill.
 * Chinese New Year - Chinese Armor pack that multiplies points by 10x.
 * Easter Egg Hunt 2 - Easter Bunny set that skips 3 tiers and helps the user. Warrior bunny set that has better abilities than Easter Bunny.
 * Earth Day - ASP armor and Shockwave launcher that multiplies points by 10 and 5 respectively (15 in total). The best energy weapons that multiplies points costs gold and money
 * Salute Our Troops - Spec Ops set that skips 3 tiers
 * Summer Camp 2 - Close Quarters set that skips 3 tiers and helps the user in trial 1. Has Road Warrior set that resists all weapons used in trial 1, 2 and 3. Has a bundle that gives one of the best weapons for each trial.

If you look at all of them, 10 out of 13 events requires the paid bundles for a decent player to complete it due to the amount of benefits from them and how difficult it is.

Yes, we all complete it with the best of our abilities, but that does not mean it is not considered pay 2 win. Even though events aren't meant to be completed by everyone, the ones who aren't skilled cannot do it but if they have those bundles, they will.

But, in my opinion, I would consider the game pay2win since it includes bundle-exclusive items which most of it benefit players in events. Did you also know that there are MORE event + paid weapons than cash/gold weapons? Yes, so that means freemium players are very limited in weaponry, and most of them do not compete with most of the paid/event weapons. exclusive-items with real money are in a lot of mobile or tablet shooting games, so no need to say it P2W or not, because these games companies want money, not just DLE.