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by taesko 2490 days ago
I think that most free to play games where the priced items are only cosmetics don't try to addict you to buying. Competitive games can never put any pay to win aspect in their pricing model - League of legends, CS GO, Dota, Overwatch.

Weirdly though competitive games in the end do make you buy somehow. Those games are ridiculously addictive to the gameplay itself and somehow they have huge player bases that stick for a long time. From my entire high school 2 years ago - 50% of the boys were addicted to playing some of the top free to play titles. When you put down thousands of hours in a game spending cash on it becomes very normal.