I bet there is a reason why
MA quit the idea of giving starting gear in the past (if I remmber well, there was period when avas received some starting stuff).
Sweating is not that bad itself, it's social activity, helps to meet new people, learn the controls and buy some tt stuff without depositing. Yes, it's not easy but if someone goes through sweating and manages to get tools he needs for it, probably will stay ingame and eventually deposit. If there was 5$ starting fee, many of good players wouldn't be around. I would not be here either as when I started
EU I couldn't depo and there were alternative games I could play.
Ah, and scammers would exist anyway. What's 5$ if they could scam 10 newbies from their sweat even and get that 5$ back? Scammers will always be there unless
MA starts some anti scamming policy that actually works.