User blog comment:Alfred cloutier/For Those Who Think Spending Money on the Game is Meaningless/@comment-108.95.150.161-20151218185719/@comment-26530108-20151218204251

I would say that the tiers are more like primary, middle, and high school and spending or not spending would be more like private school and public school. If you jump straight to high school without first taking part in primary school, you would fail every class, same with gold tier and bronze tier, if you work hard to get to high school and develop a good study ethic, you would do well. Private school costs a lot of money and gives you a bit of an advantage (ahem, horrible American public school system) but there are good public schools such as westlake high school that are just as good, if not better than most private schools, if you buy stuff right off the bat, sure you have an advantage, but if you work hard in a non-premium account, you can still succeed just as much, if not more than a payer.