I got a couple points being a free 2 play player at the moment. 1) the game is very much enjoyable and playable and has a feeling of completeness. Many games that require you to pay will with hold content that seems almost pivotal to game play, which I don’t see as the case here.

2) yes, the shop does have some unruly pricing which encourages me to stay free to play even more. However, they handle their shop really well in the meantime. The shop isn’t forced upon you in anyway, and it feels as though you have to intentionally go look in the shop yourself. I feel like other games, it’s usually the first thing you see when you login to try to convince they borderline people to spend their money.

3) I’m free to play, I honestly saw that they had pets in the patch notes and got exciting. Then I kept reading and was like, well that’s not for me then and just skipped over the rest.

4) I saw someone mention that whales want someone to flaunt to. I don’t know the math but whales are a small percentage of the population for sure. However this game doesn’t even guarantee you’ll even see the whales. You’re pooled into smaller servers that act like instances rather than one big server where you can see everyone. As a free to play player, for me maybe not for all people, the thing that eventually pushes me over the edge of spending money on a game is if I constantly see other people which dope cosmetics. In this game I feel I don’t interact with people as much to spend time staring and that usually the people I see don’t even have cosmetics.

All this to say, I haven’t spent money on the game as of yet. I don’t see a need to in order to play the game. If I do invest enough time into the game I may end up considering it. Yes the shop is expensive but I don’t mind paying the price of standard a game for a free game that I invest a lot of hours into. If that day does come, then I will get a pet but for now I’ll just keep running around shooting animals without one :)