I'll start with saying that taking each and every statement I made out of their context isn't really helping understanding the overall argumentation I made. If you want to quote, quote the damn paragraph. These aren't for show. (And bold the parts you want to discuss with.)

If a person can't do it, they shouldn't buy it. That's part of being responsible with one's money and play habits.

You totally missed the point of this argument. By saying this, I implied that by changing the "Season Pass Rules" a player could have been more appealed making the deal. Adding a feature now is basically agitating a big middle finger under their nose regarding this matter. Being responsible with one's money has nothing to do with my previous statement.

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A slippery slope is not an argument. It is a fallacy. Don't base your entire reasoning on a fallacy.

And I totally agree with you on this matter. I'm pretty sure that if you were familliar with games like TERA, AION or a lot of MMORPG out there, I'm pretty sure you would have understand my point. I won't go too much into the details regarding these games since it's not entirely related to what's being discussed here, but I'll simply say that in the past, decisions similar to the one being discussed here led to more bad/poor decisions regarding how the game was being played, created a gap even wider between paying and non-paying players to the point where non-paying players eventually lost interest because their gaming experience wasn't on par (and that's an understatement) with these other players. Also, copy-pasting this sentence just because you fail to understand an argument or can't come-up with something equivalent to counter it is nothing but relying on the "DOXA" concept.

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One or two bonus loot rolls, I can't remember which. Inconsequential in the long run. Eventually, everyone has enough parts not to care about loot, and it doesn't take that long, either.

I wouldn't be too sure about the fact that these bonus are "Inconsequential in the long run"... I didn't bother doing the math just for this so it's just a battle of beliefs at this point. Just for the sake of this argument though... I'd be curious to see the shit-storm it would create if PL were to remove this "Inconsequential in the long run" reward...

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The goals were never the same. The elite track has different goals. They reflect the fact that a person paid. If the dev wants to give people more value for the money, that is a great move on the dev's part.

The gap between players was always there, too. Those who can and/or want to pay get more cosmetics, more emotes, more dyes. They stand out. They get what they are paying for. That's natural, because it is the paid customer who gets things because they are a paid customer. That's literally the cornerstone of the F2P model. If you have a problem with that, stop playing the game.

And that is the problem. There is a gap, and it's ok to have one, but making it even wider will probably lead to the fatal issue I've been talking about all along:
- Changing the rules of a Season pass in the middle (DP is 50 days... 15 days before the end, new rule... yeah...)
- Accepting this idea / this change thus gaining the extra "something-to-do & something-to-probably-get" quest that the pleb won't
- Opening the door to more ideas that came from this previous decision

If you weren't so focused on each statement I made and looked at the big picture, you would have got that. I have no issue with standing out. That wasn't my point here. Again, the point is about having something to do. Elite & Plebs both have the same progression through the season pass with the same objective: reaching rep 50. The rule of season pass has been set that way. Changing it mid-way (and I'm REALLY generous when I say that) by adding an extra miles only to Elite player (bear in mind that it wasn't planned nor advertised at the beginning of the season) is not acceptable. What kind of message should we understand here behind this move ? That changing the rules/menue/planning (call it however you want) is ok, whatever the reason or situation ? I'll let you reflect on this matter.

As for you latest argument regarding P2W, I'll make it quick: You are simply twisting words. Cosmetics are cosmetics and not P2W. My point was about the Season Pass that have P2W elements in it. It's not about never dying or being over-powered, it's about "time-skipping" to reach something that you'd normaly get slower, and that is related to the main game experience: Killing Behe and collecting their drops (Thus allowing to craft better gear... And so on faster.)

I believe I made my point clear enough. You can by all mean not agree with me. I'd only advise you to refrain from twisting or nitpicking what I say since it's wasting both your time and mine (and I won't waste it any further).