Capital Games TeamThere is definitely a paywall. GAC is so messed up you literally have to spend money in order to climb. Need an example?
I'm currently matched against a guy with 13M GP and every GL in the game R7+. I'm in Chromium 4, barely being able to stay there because it's a regular occurrence. Fleet ranks aren't much better because in my fleet arena I have 35 Leviathan/Executor above me and my best fleet is the Chimaera. So guess what, my maximum crystal income for EVERYTHING is about 250 crystals per day. Some people get 200 crystals just from their fleet arena alone.
Save money? Sure. Try working minimum wage, supporting a family, and having a double mortgage you inherited. In lucky if my account doesn't go negative more often than not while I'm eating straight up rice for half the month.
There's a reason why I was saying higher players are seriously out of touch with everyone else. That's not an emotional response. It's a 100% fact based on the 43 members of my guild, for the last 2.5 YEARS.
CG is most definitely making this game a pay to win game - and that will kill at least half the player base over time if it continues. Mark my words on that.
Thank god for rice though.