I know that, and you keep saying p2w. If people playing this a year early gives them an advantage then the people who played poe1 for the last 12 years have the biggest advantage ever. (they don't because it doesn't matter). If you picked up POE2 in a year when it's f2p what advantage am I going to have over you? None, if you play by yourself or co-op with your friends there is literally nothing anyone else can do to affect you. You're not going to get ganked in your campaign by a rando. I think you have a really cooked idea of what this game is.