Hear me out, yeah, once I was looking for an answer I found tons of disscussions about it. But any of them had a real answer to the real p2w definition.

So, considering that p2w is when you get something that gives you an advantage that or items that you can't get without paying, OR (not the p2w, but equaly important) that can free your hands to do stuff, like get inventory slots, weight capacity, no more ads, and everything that dev made themselfs that is a problem and you need to pay to solve it (best example are ads).

Also you need to consider that the only game that is truly f2p (based on logic of majority here) is where the game has no market and ways to trade, and only has cosmetics. because technically in all games you can become p2w if you pay 10k$ to a pro player, it will just be a question of money. I will repeat, for me p2w in somehing where you will not get an actual game without paying. In other words, every game with real trade or donating for in-game currency are p2w, so that's not a good point

p.s. if you want to answer me with in-game terrms, i will not actually consider that as a based answer, pls, tell something that are understandable for a non-player, not something like "The alien race are op becose the only way to do ADM is paying an Orc which is p2w". tell me in in-life terms

(also considering that i already have the game)