I have seen F2P games be hostile to people who have not payed up over time. I have never seen a game have such a hostile new user experience for not immediately paying up merely to get to the next tier of planes. Not only will you be outskilled, but other players will almost always have better tech than you for the first dozen or so hours unless you pay to instant research anything that isn't WWI biplane trash tech.

I have seen F2P games be hostile to people who have not payed up over time. I have never seen a game have such a hostile new user experience for not immediately paying up merely to get to the next tier of planes. Not only will you be outskilled, but other players will almost always have better tech than you for the first dozen or so hours unless you pay to instant research anything that isn't WWI biplane trash tech.