its funny you ask because he has been playing extremely well from what we expected and i could see him having the potential of a decent 3 rd liner <| sep |> Oh my , that ' s so harsh ! I ' ve been saving to get her on EN as soon as I saw her for the first time but I didn ' t even get close to the amount you spent o So sorry you didn ' t get her ! Ruby sure is shy c <| sep |> If they are on private land this is justified . If they aren ' t then it isn ' t . <| sep |> Yeah so the nolifers with lots of money will always be on top with a CashUEC shop . There ' s no point for nolifers to spend money on something when they have the time to get it ingame for free . You ' ll have whales sure , but like I said CIG has already stated that there will be a limit to how much you can buy from the cash shop . 1 Sales of $ 60 dollar entry fee is not insignificant as long as there is a constant stream of new players , this will be a significant source of income . A constant stream of new players is not something any good dev would ever plan on , much less base their funding model around . A niche game like SC is not going to bring in as many players as you think it will , most of its crowd funding has come from people who ' ve already spent on it . SC if it comes out , will revolutionize the gaming industry , but it will do so quietly its not going to blow up like WoW . I ' d celebrate if we even hit 1 million players at a time . 2 Already planned and its not a stand alone solution to post release funding . 3 So a subscription system thats optional . Might work , might not Roberts is really opposed to putting anything behind a paywall and you ' d have to do so in order to have a successful subscription system . Problem there is pay 2 win . ArcheAge did this really well when it first came out the only way to be a landhouse owner was to be patron , but you had family permissions which allowed people to use your land and house . Problem was the premium currency was able to be traded for ingame gold , so people just ended up being able to get it for free . This in turn led to some items of really questionable balance becoming available on the cash shop and ultimately it became one of the primary reasons people stopped playing the game .