P2W never really bothers me apart from being an indicator of a subpar game.
I rarely ever get to max level and never PVP so don't care too much what other people do with their time in the game. As long as they aren't using teleporting harvest bots, ahem ESO...

A bigger problem with Archeage at the moment is that it doesn't have mouse invert, well for me at least.

I asked about Hackshield but I doubt they can give an answer at this point.