let me make it clear and simple , dbo wasn't pay 2 win only idiots who think like that and the biggest example is when SparkingX aka Goris defeated one of the greatest fighters (Jocer) on server 2 Final budokai for the 1st place . so tell me if it was pay2win how could Goris(non-casher) won against Jocer(Casher) ?
Ofc cash help but without skills you can't do shit xD
+ Brown boxe wasn't really needed , you could buy items with good stats on Auction house
DBO wasn't pay 2 win for sure. Of course cash helped a lot , but it wasnt pay to win. But that doesnt make it a good game either.
Anyone can see how terrible boxes are for the game economy, there is no denying that. Its simple math.
Lets say a trash item costs x gold
A good item costs 100 times more at least so 100x gold
boxes were really common ,so lets put it at 5x gold
Lets say that the cost in stones to add a gear to +15 would be 400x gold
so we farm a lot of good itens or buy them in the AH
Unless you are lucky, for a +15 gear you'd need at least 30 pieces(if not more) of the same gear.
Also lets add a random value to boxes and make it so we would need 20 boxes to make a good stats ( we all know it was much less)
30 good gears = 3000x + stones = 3400x gold
30 trash gears = 30 gold + stones + boxes = 600x gold
by X being the gold value of a trash item.
By adding the boxes we have people looking the AH for trash gear to make upgrades.
So what happens when we remove the boxes?
PVE/non-casher farmers will farm the content and sell it over the AH making money
Cashers will make money with cash and buy those gears
Its a win-win situation.
Cashers will be able to buy the gear they want with their moeny out of the AH and non-cashers will be able to farm cause the economy actually works.
I dont care if the DBOG team add op gears or whatever they want in the cash shop. What I dont want is seeing the game die cause some people support that shit.