Pay to win is when someone uses real money to get an advantagevthat makes it easier to get to the end game faster over the ones who dont pay or pay just to play. Theres no pay to win involved with istaria.. pay to win is example WOW or Everquest 1 and 2 they give exp potions and gear you need to be a member to use and there better then raid gear. Kronos and wow tokens are another form of pay to win you use the coin you get from tokens and kronos to buy ingame currency to buy the best gear in the game. Thats pay to win and i dont see it in istaria at all you loon.
eq2 is soo bad that they are introducing 600% exp potions to payer and the payers get a 100% exp bonus over the free to plays who cant get this bonus and it takes a month to a 5 months to reach level 100 while a subscriber in that game can reach it in a matter of 7 hours. and have enough coin to buy level 100 gear and raid and buy his way to win with kronos as each one costs 50k to 100k plat coins each. thats pay to win.. if your a free to play in that game good luck your fuked. and if you get a relic item in eq2 and you stop paying the company rips the equipment from your character and its useless till you involve real cash again.
Istaria can run on 5$ everquest 2 did a silver sub you pay 5$ to get acess to all the chats and can use the global connie frees cant use the connie So a 5$ sub can be used to cox in new players and they will upgrade to a 9 or 14$ sub the moment they find out the community is a beautiful thing and theres no pay to win involved and they know there funds will make the game better.. heck the devs said they are putting in a new engine thats living proof the devs care and our funds are doing something. so i support the 5$ sub plan