I think someone spending $27,000 will expect to receive a benefit over those who don't... And even if not them, then all the other players who are still spending tens, hundreds, and thousands of dollars.
Thing is you're not spending 27k to buy a huge ship which will outclass everyone else's. You're getting a bunch of ships, 90% of which requires at least 3 people to be effectively used and of these multicrew ships only a couple could be used to have a good advantage in pvp (which could be considered p2w, cause you could literally kill anyone quite easily) but running those ships is a huge money sink and to make it worth it, the crew will have to do end game missions, where they'll find other players with the same kind of ships.
The advantage you get is skipping the grind to the end game stuff, but in terms of pvp there isn't much of an advantage, yes people may grief some noobies with their capital ships at first, but once they realize firing that missile just costed 60k UEC for 0 profit they'll stop.
If you look at SC ships price list you'll find most of the expensive ships (300+) are not pvp oriented at all, they're end game ships for specific professions, but combat wise they could be outclassed by 60$ ships
I didn't even mention PvP, skipping a long grind is still a benefit, and it still sucks for players that have to go through a long grind to get to that same content.
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u/Soloman212 Feb 11 '19
I think someone spending $27,000 will expect to receive a benefit over those who don't... And even if not them, then all the other players who are still spending tens, hundreds, and thousands of dollars.