There's no free access for a year. There's a paywall. Joining a game late has nothing to do with P2W, not sure why you'd tangent that way?

> If you picked up POE2 in a year when it's f2p what advantage am I going to have over you?

Well if you haven't learned how to play in a year, then yeah sure. But as for P2W, it'd be keeping EXP/gear that the F2P would be lacking.

> Just play single player

There is no offline play for PoE2, and that wouldn't address P2W issues at all even if it did.

You're not going to get ganked anyway, because it's apparently got a pussy "dueling" requirement for PvP lmao.

> I think you have a really cooked idea of what this game is.

I asked you, someone very interested in the game, whether it was more P2W than the first game. I don't know about the game, so no I don't lmfao.