Pokexgames is not paytowin it has its diamond shop but most things except vip is non influential in the game. It becomes paytowin in older servers where diamonds exchange rate is too high but they released a new sever some weeks ago. the first day diamonds worth nothing like 500dls each diamond.
VIP isn't the most influential thing in the game. I'd pay 2x or 3x the monthly value if they removed most of the game-changing diamond features. At first you just needed to pay to fly, surf and teleport. Then they started adding more things paid only via irl money: bless, ditto/shiny ditto, evolution items (to evolve tyrogue for example), crafting rank level up items, etc. You're basically coerced into spending a lot of money to get a decent team (specially shinies, who are extremely rare to catch).
The worst part of them all is bless, dying in that game is super easy, and it's obvious that they design the game around the idea of that. Quests mostly feature 1-hit-kill enemies, randomly spawning bosses in Phenac which also WILL kill you easily and there isn't much you can do to avoid them other than praying. Just like regular Tibia, dying is a huge setback and it makes playing that game a chore where you're essentially wasting hours of your life for each death, with the cherry on the top being that the only way to reduce the setback (not even avoid it completely, just reduce it) is by paying real money.