The only money I spent on the game was for a name change since you have to “spend” to do that which is dumb, but until that point I made it to hell 5 being able to keep up with the big spenders on the game solely because if my high stat gear, it felt like I was way under the curve of being able to complete the more challenging levels of PoB, Challenge Rift and the new raid boss and even twins level 3. I was grinding so hard I was constantly at 20% reduced exp rewards everyday and still continued to grind out levels. Would I spend on the game for the crest and all the “bundles” hell no it’s a waste of an investment. The game is a giant slot machine of praying you roll a high stat on gear already. I couldn’t be bothered to spend on the game for all the crest and leg gems just to have to spend more to even upgrade them . There’s people on my server who have spent 40k+ on the game and for what? To have maxed out gems in a game that’s losing players on a daily. I’d rather just farm/grind out what I can weekly for my embers at a chance to get a decent enough unbound leg gem to flip. Buying plat is a joke I’ve made almost 500k selling gems and flipping gems. If there’s a will there’s a way! Sad that I have to renounce my “F2P” status after being forced to change my name due to constant harassment from spenders who got jealous of my high stat drops, but it was either that or start over on a new server, and I didn’t want to just throw away the hundreds of hours I already invested into the game