You just repeated the main points of my thread with a little extra and without the babble in about a tenth of the words.

Yes I jelly.

I bought the expansion to fuel the rage.

things can be fixed for u guys if u really wana play the new stuff so badly

just suggest them to make the exp. packs tradable, while the only method to obtain them, remains real money

ppl have lotsa ce and nothing to buy for it, so u gotta think about methods to reward the devs for their work while at the same time reaching ur goal
after that u post the thread

God, I saw this and was like: He had better not be leaving. Xylka if you leave I will find you and eat your face. I cannot be the only WHB advocate in the entire SK world and I would simply not survive without one of my best friends. No. Just. No. First Nicoya now Xylka.... and that's when I started reading ^.^ Brilliantly said, thanks for not raging too. haha... goodness you scared me there :3

Well said. I can't really buy the pack right now due to personal stuff but gosh I want it! >.<

Its a love and hate relationship which is a nice way to say its really an abusive relationship =0

Personally, I don't really care. When everyone rages, I will be sitting, having a LIFE!
It's just a game.

(I haven't even done vana or SL, so I have a long way to go!)

Separating your community is never a good idea. F2P players are not just freeloading off P2P players. They're valuable to the game because they increase the size of the community. They contribute to the forums. They create demand for things P2P players have. They make the existence of an in-game economy possible. Companies that make free to play games don't do so out of the goodness in their hearts, they do so because the value of having a lot of extra players in the game usually outweighs the negatives, such as additional server load and potential inequity. In short, while F2P players are not directly financing OOO, they're still very much "supporting" them.

Of course, you do need a certain amount of actual income in your game, so you do need to offer incentives for people to spend money. That's where things like CE come in. CE allows P2P players to advance through the game at a much faster rate than F2P players (actually, CE allows you to advance much further than possible with mist only, and that's one of the things I do not like about the model SK uses). One of the positive things about CE is that it does not push F2P players out of the game. They can farm crowns to purchase it from P2P players, giving them access to the same content. If I've spent a lot of money on the game, and I want to get my friends playing, we can enjoy the same content without making my friends spend money to catch up to where I am.

The point of new content shouldn't be to reward players who've paid, it should be to keep people interested in playing your game, because if they like it, and there's incentive to pay, they'll do it anyway. The problem with "paid-only" content is that it defeats the entire purpose of making the game free to play. It splits the community into those who've paid and those who haven't. If a group of friends has some paid and some free, then they can't enjoy the content together. You don't want to reduce the number of players who can experience the content in your game. It's a waste of development time and it turns some people who may have been considering making a purchase later anyway away from the game.

Speaking as a player who has spent money in the game and bought the DLC to try out the model, but would not do so again.