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George Young

New MMO on the block Where Winds Meet promises to never become pay-to-win, greeting players with the message "your legend is written by skill and choice, never by wallet size"

The Qianye boss in Where Winds Meet.

Where Winds Meet surpassed 2 million players in the first 24 hours of launch on Steam and PS5, thanks in no small part to it being free-to-play. As with all new 'freemium' games, we begin to question how the game will be monetized before we invest too much time into them.

As a general rule, people are happy to pay real money for a skin that makes you look like Skibidi Toilet, but less pleased if there are weapons, armor, and worst of all, levels for sale. In any game that has PvP, no one wants to have to get their wallet out in order to keep up with the ever-evolving meta.

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