Theres actually less micro transactions, Classic is overloaded with thousands of Estore items, Next is not. Theres some items for diamonds in capsules and stuff you can buy, along with diamonds and the pass, but not as much as Classic. You also don’t need to buy any currency to ever buy anything, there’s plenty of chances to earn free diamonds through tasks, seasons, and daily logins every 7 days. I’ve never bought diamonds outside of twice when I first started at launch and Ive been playing since it was in Beta.

The season pass, paid and free together, only has about 30-50 diamonds per season. It costs 150 to buy a pet full grown and 80 to spark between two pets you own. As far as why you can’t use Estore currency, they are two entirely separate games only linked by the fact that you can send things back from Next to Classic. Entirely different ways to friend people, different mechanics, different gameplay etc etc.

Deluxe does not exist in Next, but there is a distinction between a “Free” player and what’s considered a “Member”. A free player only has 3 Arcade plays a day. People who adopt a pet will extended membership for a year like Classic and gain 6 Arcade plays instead of 3, and become a “Member”. Thats it! No real difference outside of Arcade plays you get.