ViRGE wrote on Feb 3, 2012, 01:13:

Krovven wrote on Feb 2, 2012, 19:42:
And for all those saying this isn't Pay To Win.

If you can pay additional money to gain a benefit over players that do not pay the extra cash, it's P2W.

Tribes Ascend, can you pay an extra fee to gain XP and Tokens faster and purchase Gold to unlock more classes? Yes. It's P2W.

Bingo. "Flexibility" is just another form of P2W, it's just a more insidious form because it's not directly presented as an I Win button.

In TA you purchase loadouts to be more flexible to kill the guys who are running around in the free gear. That is Pay 2 Win. The only way a game is Free2Play is if you can only purchase cosmetic items; the moment you can purchase anything that impacts gameplay, it's P2W.