The company running the game has to make a living somehow..
It is free in the sense that you CAN log into the game freely, you CAN get all the items in the game without paying a single $, it just "costs" you a lot of TIME and PATIENCE.
So yes - its totally 100% free, and, with enough time and effort you could potentially get anything you want by farming, attending events and buying from merchants (all PUS items can be sold).
I never understood why people complained about the concept of PUS
Its either you Pay to Play (WoW for example), or its Free to play, with some sort of PUS..
Another example is league of legends - totally free to play, farm enough and you can open all the champions.
No patience? money to waste? buy champions for cash.
More money to waste on (epeen)? Buy skins..
I agree that KO is a lot more competitive than the other games in the sense that if you are a new player coming to a server, you are royally boned for atleast a year
(unless you dump a load of $$ on it), but that has got nothing to do with NTT, it has to do with things like your server choice, your patience and ofc, the players themselves that are the engine for the "black market" of items
TBH NTT has been doing SUCH a great job with fighting hackers and gold farmers, that right now, with 20gb's in my server you can get reaally nice things (depending on your class ofc),
This is a HUGE plus, meaning people can do simple things such as farming Abyss gems (easy, fast) and getting items (and even the rare goldbar) to resell on the market, and after a month or 2 of reselling you can have a pretty well equipped char.
Again - time and patience
Reselling has always been an insane income source for patient people.
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