I’m not sure where you got that definition, I always took pay to win as any purchaseable advantage. Infact that is how wikipedia defines it:
In general a game is considered pay-to-win when a player can gain any gameplay advantage over their non-paying peers
I am not sure if a duration limit exists for gleam club, however I know at a minimum I’ve had one year. That is over triple the maximum beacon fuel available in game, assuming one year. You are paying (a minimal amount) for a feature that is unobtainable for free. It saves you (a small amount) of time but more importantly to me you are paying to opt out of the mandatory fueling schedule.
This sounds like the opinion of someone who has constant access to a computer with internet. I usually get 2-3 days notice before a job and have been gone for 2+ months per stint. Sometimea we leave straight from one job to another. We work 10-12.5 hour shifts depending on the day plus travel to and from a hotel and paperwork/field reports. It would be different if we could click a button on my phone to refuel all beacons, but as it stands now I need my laptop and a solid internet connection to refuel all my beacons. You’d be surprised how many power plants and substations around the US have no access to internet.
Wikipedia is not a reliable source as we are told in college because anyone can edit them.
Matter of fact I pulled my deffinition from one of my college textbooks I use for reference material.
I also agree with @majorvex I am not sure how much color text, emojis and the beacons staying fueled for the months your paying for is a real ‘advantage’ ot is more like a laziness purchase of ehich i am guilty of lol
In all honesty yes I have access to a computer constantly, however I don’t always have time to login. But I do keep track of beacons when I am not paying for gleamclub and put a notice on my calendar so I know I have to go fill them.
Actually no I wouldn’t I know all too well lol i use to be a programmer for electrical and nuclear power plants and they are natorious for no internet lol. I hated it thats why I am in the game industry now lol.
I feel your pain but I have refilled my beacons from my laptop at a coffee shop before and have messaged in game friends here in the forums to refuel them for me.
At least one study has shown that Wikipedia is about as reliable as published encyclopedias.
Anyone can write a textbook, they can put whatever they want in it. I can tell you that many of my industry-specific textbooks contained the biased junk the author believed over actual commonly accepted practices.
The definition they gave, where P2W is based on RMT purchased advantage, is the more commonly accepted term. If you spend just a few minutes googling “define pay to win”, you will find a dozen sources that agree with wikipedia and maybe 1 or 2 that agree with you.
Words are defined by common use, not by textbooks.
Taking “pay to win” so literally isn’t right. It’s a term that has meaning beyond it’s origin. P2W is using real money transactions to gain advantage in-game. Having more plots or not having to log in to fuel beacons is an advantage, so it’s P2W.
It’s very ethical and reasonable P2W and is set up in a generally accepted way, but it’s still a minor form of P2W.
It’s a game I am not getting into a collegiate debate about terms and how textbooks are written. I also don’t want to get into a debate about how wikipedia is not the equivelant to a encyclopedia and college professors won’tlet ypu use it for sourceing info. Neither do I want to get into a p33ing match about about industry terms and their deffinitions.
I just want to play and have a good time. I respect your opinion and all I ask is you respect mine in return.
