spends 5000 euros on cubes to get 1 slightly upgraded weapon, surely p2w
No one sane would do that, you better rmt at that point, the cash shop $ to silver ratio is too low.
Just look at goro, only dumbasses would buy it in the market the first day, and after some days it was already around 40m, just look at his drop chance and what you can do with 40m(nothing).
Same goes for halloween costumes and all the other things, the only thing that remains valuable is stuff that actually help the community indirectly (outside of dia anvils).
Abrasives make it so lvl7 gems are more easily available for everyone in the shop, same thing goes for tokens and practo.
If we had no gacha no one would probably sell tokens in the market since the $ratio of those is even worse when buying directly from steam.
For the same reason they cannot discout or introduce anything else. If the price of dresses in $ gets too low, or if they introduce anything else cheaper than token(character slots?) as a lower level currency no one will resell tokens.
The problem stems from the cost of a token and the fact that everything else is balanced aroud trading it in the market.