And that’s fine. But its called “Pay to Win” if you earn everything with money that people put effort into getting. Like boosting for mythics, boosting for raids, boosting for mounts, arenas. Boosting for achievements. Boosting for gear in general.
Yeah but why should those, cough in your words. “Immature, juvenile and unemployed” people put in the effort into earning what you can just throw money at? Its what kills MMO’s. They did this blatantly in Tera, loved it so much. The 20+ servers turned into a single server in no time. Its not YOU people who throw money at the boosting services that keep it alive but the rest who play a lot of it. You’re only here because of them. Otherwise, if the servers were empty and everyone was busy living their life and no one was really playing wow. Would you really get on to get those e-flex mounts, gear or achievement ratings? Who are you gonna flex to. Better yet, who is going to even be boosting you if no one is playing this anymore lmao.
I’d much rather work an extra 5-6 hours at work and buy multiple boosts over mindlessly runnung around Korthia opening up boxes and killing rares for trash 252 gear.
Not saying boosting is good but the open world gearing is so boring that I’d rather go to work than engage it.
Why would you let yourself be manipulated into spending real money for pixels on a screen? You are making some of the world’s worst sort of people rich.
I’d explain to you in detail how you don’t understand what an actual pay to win model is and how blizzard doesn’t qualify with WoW but you’re just here to troll and it won’t go anywhere.
Plus I know your desperate for a W after being downright blasted in that other thread.
If you spent as much gold gearing a character in Diablo Immoral as you said you were going to, you wouldn’t be a “millionaire” of any sort. One guy spent 600 million gold by turning it to $48k bnet balance to gear his character, which is less than 10% of what the actual monetary cost for bis on one character would be in that game.
Your own denial could also constitute as a form of trolling.
Though lets not split hairs here on conduct. The fact remains that services are being purchased and instances do exist where gold is bought through real money, meaning that pay to win services do exist and to deny that it isn’t taking place in the fashion I just described is downright ignorance or delusion.
The fact that you think I’m in denial is you trolling.
In order for it to be an actual pay to win game the services would have to be offered by blizzard. As they are supplied by third party players it’s not pay to win.
I match OP’s description to a tee. Early 30s, busy with work, too tired to play most evenings.
But I’m ok with settling for what I can do solo or queued. What entitles me to the fruits of an organized group, exactly? Furthermore, why should my wallet influence my power in game in any way? Isn’t that just reproducing the screwed up situation we have in real life?
