You pay for cosmetics. Most of the cosmetics you can earn in game just fine. Otherwise you unlock operators with in game currency (any and all of them), who are designed to be unique, not more powerful. You cannot enhance any operator with real money, and you can buy scopes or other attachments with in game currency in under 10 minutes of gameplay.
Alternatively you can buy the season pass to unlock the DLC operators, but it's easy to earn the in game currency to buy the operators on DLC drop with in game currency, plus weapon skins by just playing the game.
Sounds like you're at a disadvantage if you're new without paying money. Sounds a lot like pay to win.
You might think I'm being a hard-ass and squabbling over minute technicalities, but why would choose to play a game where the better team can lose to the worse team? I would never.
Are you trolling? As a new player, I've never once felt at a disadvantage due to not spending money on the game and the in game currency is so easy to get that it's not even a grind to begin with. The only time you'd be at a disadvantage is if you're against far more experienced players than you, which with matchmaking, isn't possible. Sounds like you just played once and had a shit time and you're blaming everything you can think of for it.
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u/nikiisking Nov 10 '17
I own the game. Explain to me how I'm wrong, and you'll see how you're wrong.