Free-to-play schemes could be unlawful, warns OFT

Honestly I don't understand why cubing and gachapon are so hated. No one is forcing you to cube or gach, it's in no way necessary. Before someone says "oh well unfunded players can't kill Empress", why is that such a problem? If every level 200 that was mildly funded was able to solo emp a lot of people here would be crying bloody murder. There's nothing wrong with cubes or gachapon or marvel machine. They offer a way to get to the top of the heap without a large amount of work. Same as if I decided to buy the best possible items in WoW, I could get all the power without any work what so ever. As much as people seem to think it's impossible to get anywhere without buying tons of NX I know that's not true. Many of my friends have gotten fairly wealthy in MS simply due to hard work and merching. For those against the gambling aspect of cubes/gach/etc, let me ask you a question. I remember a while ago MSEA sold perfectly scrolled weapons for real money. Would you rather have that?

Money should not equal power. Ever.

Money equals time. EXP boosts and Drop rate boosts are fine, because when you're spending money on a game for said boosts you are usually spending cash you earned from working a job. Just like working the job to get the money, money equals time in games as well as in real life. That's why games without a P2W scheme are still able to survive without creating a power gap like we have here. Any way you look at it, having money equal to power is bad. All you suggest is replacing one scenario of that with another.

Even with Gacha giving scrolls, unless the scrolls are otherwise unobtainable it's fine. You're giving yourself a chance at an item you'd normally have to grind for. Still money equals time. But when you add the cube system and all this other money equals power bullshit, you create the problems we have here.