As long as there are items being released that are AUR only and have no ISK counterpart, it's P2W, plain and simple.

When this was a beta and the argument was still "Hey, they'll be introducing a player market so you can buy those items from other players" I was with you. Now that the game is a fully launched and commercially released product, with no player market to be found, the game is undoubtedly and clearly pay-to-win.

When it was beta and CCP were saying "point out the P2W items and we will fix them," I was still on your side. Yet, they still keep putting out new P2W items. It's not difficult to compare the ISK versions to the AUR versions. A new player doing a review can see the P2W items for themselves. If a new player doing a review can see it, you're not going to convince me that the guys developing the game simply "missed" it, or that it "slipped by" them.

perhaps ccp shouldn't have released dust 514 on the 14th, like everyone was trying to warn them from

The only items that I see that are AUR only are the Fused Locus Grenades. Although they are nasty grenades, they hardly determine the outcome of a game.

Now, if a weapon like the balac's or any of those officer items were only on sale for aur, then I can understand. But it's a little stretch to label the game as P2W by just one grenade. I believe that the reviewer was talking about skilling up faster....so he must have been referring to boosters. Some people refer boosters as P2W and I'm thinking, "Damn, is there anything that CCP can sell from this game?"