Originally Posted by
Xiani
^this.
When I played Perfect World (Malaysian server, not the extremely overpriced US cash shop version) 14$ got me a mid speed flying mount, a mid speed ground mount (which were only available from cash shop unless you wanted to pay a crap ton of in game gold for a slow horse), and still had credits left over for other random things. Mind you, probably not the best comparison as PW did become a big P2W game. At the time I played it was mostly cosmetic stuff like fashion, mounts, inventory increase, pet space increase, etc.