I want to state right from the start that I have been playing this game since launch. I have never complained about p2w or the cash shop before. I have never felt that things were being engineered in this manner before.About two patches back it seems that the enhancement rate has been adjusted down. With this and keeping the memory fragment market zeroed out they have pushed players to the cash shop. I am guessing they will keep the deficit in place until after the last kama patch, at which point they will introduce costume melting and increase the availability of frags to fuel the costume market.This in my mind is online gambling which should require Perl Abyss to publish odds related to success and failure. Any time real money becomes involved the odds should be published. In addition due to the casino like nature of the game the age limit for the game should probably be restricted to 18+ or the age of majority in your locale."The addictive qualities of gambling can be understood from both a behavioral and neurological perspective. Gambling is a form of "operant conditioning learning" in which a voluntary action becomes linked with a specific outcome. The random reinforcement provided by gambling is actually the strongest form of conditioning, well ahead of a consistent reward. When a payoff is not expected every time the conditioned behavior is much more resistant to erasure than when a payoff is always expected. Losses or no-returns are still consistent with the action-reward relationship."BDO is basically an operant conditioning chamber the enhancing system conditions the player base to spend money to enhance gear. The possibility for the player to not spend money to enhance does exist, but mammals have evolved to be predisposed to laziness to conserve energy and resources. Nearly every facet of this game is based on this as a method to keep players hooked and spending.