User blog comment:The Milkman/Random Rambling: Should PS3 See Free DLC?/@comment-4224668-20121001011753/@comment-5280592-20121001023522

" I want them to have as much as I do, because I don't need to know that my console is "superior" because it has exclusives, just so I can validate my purchase."

You've never played a Korean MMO have you? The basis of most of them is basically having an edge over the other guy with either total exclusives or just things so rare they pretty much can just save a month and pay real money. The worst offender is Nexon and the Mabinogi series.

The original one made the message a bit subtle. You can buy pets, they make the game significantly more playable to a pont where most of the satrategies requires them; you can get cards to be "reborn" every week, without them you will be easily surpassed (e.g. I played for three years and was around level 1200. My friend who sank money into it was almost to the ten thousands after a few months last I checked )

The sequel doesn't even give a shit about free players. If you pay money you get level 40 equips right fromt he start, revival IN dungeons instead of starting all over, potions which don't become worthless if you move the tiniest fraction of a centimeter to the left, and most importantly you get pre-upgraded equipment which you must craft from random boss drops in dungeons in which you're only allowed to run three times a week, and the percentage of upgrade goes from hard to spontaneous combustion every three tries.

No complaining!