Hunter said:
Calling out "capitalist", dictating how a person should spend their own money of ten bucks or a few hundred million dollars and telling them they are so stupid -- these are hallmarks of sour grape.
Constructive feedback and criticism is good. Negative, placard-holding-protest-standing-outside-mcdonalds-telling-everyone-dont-be-stupid-to-buy-expensive-french-fries, is bad. The world of difference between the two is the distance between Earth's grand canyon and Mars.
I certainly look forward to the day I become a sour grape for the sake of a game. This will be one serious lifetime achievement I need to unlock.
If people want to spend WHATEVER on a game because the game allows it, that is their choice. You can't blame players for doing what a game allow them to do. Rich people got more to spend that way than those not so rich, but that also create an unbalance in the game. You will get the "haves and the have nots" and the have nots will never be able to compete. In a lot of games this is balanced in a way that if you spend more time and effort (grinding) you can still compete, but in Plarium games that is not possible. It just create a class system of rich and poor and some stuck in between. If you think that make for a good game, that is your choice, but for me and many others we do not.
So from time to time we see frustrated people come to the forums and complain about the big ones, but they complain about the wrong reasons. No need to complain about some player got big due to coining. You should complain about Plarium allowing for such a unbalance to the system is being allowed. Nothing been made to reduce the gap, quite the opposite. In the end, players need players, rich as poor. But a common ground need to be in place, so the poor doesn't just end up become the play things and farms of the rich with no way to oppose and fight back.
Years of constructive feedback, suggestion about changes to close the gap and so on, lead no where... So its either, step aboard the train and join the ride or jump off knowing it will trainwreck.