People at GameTrailers must be reading this blog 😀 : roughly a week after my article on Free-to-Play, the new episode of Bonus Round has Geoff Keighley, Michael Pachter and Garnett Lee discussing exactly the same issue, trying to figure out if pay-to-win is here to stay and how, in general, free-to-play multiplayer games can still be fair to players.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?