Obviously before the game was more fair and more fun, since you could actually progress and evolve by playing. But the fact is that this state of the game works and there are people that spend a tremendous amount of money to get items and a lot of them are crying now in the forums, because they participated in a game of luck and lost, but still feel entitled because they spent money.
Obviously in the long term this project is destined to fail economically. Looking at WOW, you can see some aspects that make a game a success. One major one is the community and in our case the community kinda sucks. If you do want for the game to be a bit different, then show it by not just brainlessly dropping your money in every event that is clearly a crude and lazy way of increasing revenue. But since this sells...this is what you're going to get.
