Anyone who have played EU would know. And this is not a mistake how things are going, on the contrary, this is the strategy.
To drain, the max they can, your wallet in 3 months. This will become a zombie server after that. Merges will come to avoid the collapse, but the burial will be inevitable.
And, as I said, this is the strategy, expect that some people will have spent more than 50k in three months, and I'm saying that each of them will spent that amount alone.
After these 3 months that's what's going to happen:
- F2P players already understood there is room for them, they can't even farm the 3 adena's mob peacefully, they can't even gather 30 players to try to kill anyone, because that DK will one shot all of them.
- By 3 months, you will know who owned the server, even those who have spent some coins will not be able to farm because whales will not allow, what's the point of spending huge amounts of cash if you can't be the greatest troll on earth and smash anyone you see?
- Defeated alliance will leave the server because they run out of cash and they can't battle for anything else.
- Whales will have no one to bash, and will chose another server to P2W.
In the end, F2P will understand this is definitely not a game for them(haven't they yet?)
People who spend 50 dollar's a month will understand they can't compete and will be useless forever. And look that 50 dollar's is more than any regular/decent game charges you monthly.
And, the only one happy will be NCwest with the easiest, fastest money they have ever had.
Tell me this is not the goal here...