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Message: [QUOTE="SpcDaicon, post: 384071, member: 134388"] The official brazilian Ragnarok Online (bRO) was my first contact with pay-to-win. They had a cash shop that started with some neat itens to have. Nothing really gamebreaking but would make your life way easier or had good stats. Things had a turn for the worst when they "soft relauched" the game: the 3 servers they had were merged into one with an paid subscription and debuted a new one with free access but a TON of nerfs that practically made the game unplayable without itens from the cash shop. I think the most egregious was when they started to sell MVP and Mini-boss Cards on the cash shop. In Ragnarok every monster has a 0.01% of dropping a card that you can use in a piece of equip to add effects, raise its stats or even give you access to skill from other classes. Boss (MVP) and Mini-boss monsters are no different, they do have their respective cards (still, 0.01% drop rate) but their effects are broken. Immunity from magic damage, double your max HP, flat raise to your attack speed, enchanting your armor with the "Ghost" element (effectively making you immune to Neutral, the most common element on the game, and having 50% resistente to all elements except "Ghost"), etc. So, in the end, although the server was free, you had to spend cash to buy those things because everybody was doing [/QUOTE]

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