Look, I'm not here to add fuel to the fire but I just wanted to take a moment to explain my opinion about F2P versus P2P. I know a lot of times it seems very unfair that someone can pay money to get ahead but try to think about the true nature of that. The people paying money right now are what keeps this game going, their contributions move the game forward.

Think about your group, if you had members who didn't contribute to your group I am sure that you would rid yourself of them right? Atleast Oasis cares enough to give you hope. This game might try to give P2P something to buy, but they do atleast give F2P options. No, you can't have Tendo or Minato but there is more to the game then that aspect. People have said before that you can make up what P2P buy over time. It's true for everything on a long enough time line. Magatama, refine runes you can get most of this stuff easily. If P2P are always moving on to the next new thing it seems like you can never catch up. But that just means they have taken their attention away from the last thing.

I know it's rough for F2P, but if you stay dedicated you can gain ground. On my server a lot of P2W's have already quit the game. All that money they spent is going to waste as their rank descends out of the Top 10, 100, 200 etc. They key to success isn't how much money you spend on this game, it's having the courage and the guts to never give up! That is my nindo, my ninja way!!

Easy cowbo- errr...too soon? Nah just kidding. I can tell you exactly why they changed the cowboy outfit to Traitor Orochimaru. People had the cowboy costume from a previous event, not all people, but quite a few per server. And if these people would have spun the cowboy outfit, it would have been a useless spin for them, as those frags would have done nothing for them. I suspect this is also why the maintenance took longer this time around, because they had to change that. Anyway, I don't speak for them and I could be wrong about this, but that is my observation of this situation. So stop screaming PATHETIC and try to work on your own observational skills my boy.

Pricing comes down to supply and demand. With the new servers the demand is high, so that could explain the pricing even if there is no "supply". I think over time, we will find free ways to get certain things easier and when that happens I suspect the prices of the things you can buy will drop. That or when the demand goes down the prices will follow. Either way my strategy is to play the long game and not get so *ed on the current ninja and save for the future. Maybe the CNs version was always more inexpensive, I can't really comment on that. But I do have this feeling that as all things the prices dropped over time.

Also I think these mods on the forums are paid in coupons to assist on these forums, I cannot verify that but you guys hold a knife to their throats demanding for information that they might not possess. So lets all take a step back and breathe and move on with less stress. I spent $120 and Minato avoided the hell out of me. But I did gain a lot of power tho