I am a bit late to the party but let me ask you something @3iNST3iN. Or any other “F2P strategy” user on this forum.
What is a F2P strategy? Define it?
Technically in a F2P strategy you use the monsters you have obtained for free from offline or the online monster hunting stuff. Monsters such as Sunlord, Chronozeros, Leoronix, Noxdragon etc. Those are definitely F2P monsters. Then there are the ones you get from events which vary quite a lot.
By the way I want to make it clear now that I have spent money on this game. Not obscene amounts but a few deals here and there. I don’t have any awakened mythics though.
The real question is, if a F2P hatches Angelion will it be part of a “F2P strategy”? If I buy a pack and hatch Angelion, is it a “P2W” strategy? Where do you draw the line?
What’s more, players like Killerdog have been able to awaken mythics without spending a dime. I’m sure there are others too that have simply got very lucky. So tell me, if KD awakens Dragulus and Na’turgoul, are they part of a F2P or P2W strategy?
Another question: for around the first year I played, I didn’t spend anything on the game. If I use the monsters I got before spending, am I using a “F2P strategy”? I could have got those monsters after I started spending and you could have called it “P2W strategy”.
I could go on but I hope you realize how dodgy and ambiguous the mere concept of a “F2P strategy” is.
Now let’s talk about “P2W”. It’s a fact that it’s incredibly hard to awaken mythics, especially featured ones, without spending any money. For even a slightly realistic shot at it you would have to grind for at least half a year and then hope you get lucky. So we can agree that to awaken mythics, especially many of them, you would need obscene amounts of time spent playing the game and incredible luck or a decent amount of money in your pockets to increase your rate of success.
Mythics have better stats than any other monsters in the game and often very useful movesets and passives. They need to be good for people to spend money on them. Sometimes, like some SE or legendaries, they are simply too good. Upon release Bastia was so strong that she simply needed to be nerfed, which understandably upset many players that had spent money on awakening her. Yet any spender accepts that risk and Devs will nerf the monster if it’s really necessary. By this example I wanted to illustrate that even these “P2W strategies” can be too strong or can be nerfed sometimes. And also any clever person should analyze and evaluate their in game investment and accept the risks of a nerf before making it and not expect to be on a pedestal, it’s not like they’ve bought shares of Zigzagame for god’s sake.
Lastly I wanted to emphasize something that I’ve already said a couple of times. Even though someone identifies themselves as “F2P” or “P2W” it doesn’t really change anything. They are simply two different approaches to play the game. If you don’t want to spend any money and instead spend a lot of time grinding gems to maximize your chances of success, it’s completely fine. If you instead want to save time or to acquire the absolute best monsters in the game faster by splashing a bit of cash, that’s completely fine too. I’ve even heard that some players would like to spend on the game but can’t because of political and geographical reasons.
I know that in both “camps” there are arrogant people who care only for their own interests and also sometimes their pride. I just wish we could live as a unified community, respect each other, understand each other’s point of views and not label or vilify certain approaches. We can agree and disagree with each other respectfully.
