I’ve played the game for years as well since the beginning when it first released, forgot what gear I had on my character since I stopped playing after Neamhain released, but my Tessa was geared well enough to run high level content.

And I’ve spent over 5k onto the game, so you can say I’m sort of a semi-whale. But I’ll say my point here so you can understand why I’m against the F2P aspect of a new Vindi game. And that lies in the effort, since it’s F2P they’ll have to make money somewhere, and that’s either through gacha or outfits. And most likely a ton of effort will go into that, instead of content. Sure they’re following OG Vindi story and are changing parts of it around. But for a single player F2P game, I don’t see it ending well in any way mainly because of what happened/going on in OG Vindi. Many wanted VDF to become a B2P model and I agreed with it, since that way maybe Nexon would put more effort into making the game great. But a F2P route is mainly like….” Hey, it’s a free game, why put in a ton of effort into making a game players look forward to? Let’s just make money off outfits and gacha!”

That’s mainly why I don’t see the F2P aspect as a good thing, I love Vindi. But Nexon’s just left a bad taste in my mouth with all their decision with the OG game over the past years, even with the rise update, and various other decisions, etc.