i am pretty much for equality of education, so yeah, im against knowing that some child just get a better education than others. (this problem could be resolved by simply firing every school teachers expect the most competents, and having them teach the whole country using the internet ^^).
in games though, every pieces of rules should exist for teh sake of the game, and nothing more.
being able to skip challenges, the actual substance of the game, and access the rewards of the said challenges with real world currency hardly add anything of value to the game.
rules are there for the sake of the game, so a rule that encourage you to skip the game? no thanks ^^
everything in game should be earned by playing and not by any other means.
for argument sake, lets say the player experience would be enhanced by skipping parts of the game, then why not just handing hit to him rather than making him pat for it? we have a rule thats there for the sake of somebody finances and not for the sake of the game. as a player im just against it. its not the best for the actual quality of the game .
now the game is created and cared for by actual people, who need money on the long run for the servers... in mu opinions the best way to go is monthly subscription the same for everyone. end of the story.
BUT whale grabbing can be a good alternative. as long as you manage to offer meaningless stuff to them for an exorbitent price. stuff so meaningless than if removed from the game, nobody would see the difference.
cosmetics in this regard, is a pretty neat idea as long as the in game stuff dosnt ffell "meh" when compared to it.
thay should, however, not be tradable in game. they arent there to add to the game but only to grab to the whale money. they exist in an another dimension. they should not directly affect the state of the game.
thats my opinion at least ^^
