It used to be that we could say "No pay to win" to indicate that the game didn't use this kind of bullshit. Unfortunately that term was stolen and repurposed i

It used to be that we could say "No pay to win" to indicate that the game didn't use this kind of bullshit. Unfortunately that term was stolen and repurposed in to an effective lie. "It's not pay to win. The players choose if they want to pay with time or with money." Complete garbage. More recently we use the term "Ethical microtransactions" because it implies strongly that we are free of the scummy tactics. I firmly believe that if you don't separate the game design and the business model in to two distinct systems then your game design will be corrupted by it.