As for the “pay-2-skip”, look, we can spend all day here coming up with new labels to avoid calling it pay-2-win, in the end the result is still the same, you are getting advantage over everyone else that isn’t paying the extra cash, now that doesn’t have to be necessarily a problem, take Warframe for example… a f2p game that you can buy pretty much EVERYTHING, from weapons to frames, with real-life cash, yet there it is, sitting with 235,808 (92%) positive reviews on steam, as one of the best examples of Free-to-Play done right on the market.
Why? Because the limitations that are set around what may be described as a “Pay-2-Win” system, you can buy every single weapon in-game, yet you can’t use it till you reach X rank with it, and to level your rank you need to level unranked/low-rank tier equipment, and by the time you are done with that, you’ll probably be sitting on enough materials to craft the shit you want, meanwhile the only Player vs Player content of it, is a optional duel-system inside clan dojos…