Your WoW is apparently not my WoW. Carries have been a thing since the server hamsters were put in thier wheels. There hasn’t been an expac I wasn’t spammed by gold sellers and carry/leveling offers. The gold sellers faded after the token was introduced so that was a plus. But carries have always been there. 
No.
Cash based Carries should be against term of service and all accounts involved should be banned.
They’ve been around but were reportable, and were more often that not.
Most people ‘played the game normally’ and such things as carries were looked down upon.
These days, they are the norm, and I feel like carries overshadow normal groups. Except maybe M+, but for raids? Carries everywhere.
It’s not even my hill to die on, I stopped doing PvE after MoP.
I’m a purely PvP player, but PvP content has been so dry and bad balance-wise that I can’t really find anything else in WoW that entertains me, hence I’m on Hardcore these days.
Arenas are awful, battlegrounds are superior to a deathmatch in a small room. And yet, arenas got more attention than battlegrounds did, RIP PvP.
Just look at what Shuffle did for healers, lolol.
Idk, seems that retail is all about low-hanging fruit and easy wins through the people that are still around- they don’t seem to want to ‘work’ on anything new for the bg PvP crowd, and I feel like they all left.
Not sure blizzard would want to endorse carrying. Sure on paper it means more token sales. But it also means far less play time
One of my more flawed traits is shaudenfreude at those getting scammed while trying to take shortcuts in life. I know this is just a game but… i do smirk a little.
Im flawed, sorry
That’s the main thing I don’t understand.
You beat the thing you paid for, you’re done, right?
We’re at this weird point in the game where people are okay with others buying carries, but don’t seem to understand that a carry means they aren’t doing the raid normally.
And if it’s for an achieve, they likely aren’t coming back after the carry is done.
These are things you’re supposed to do on repeat.
So, the population is gonna go down due to these carries.
It just seems the health of the game is at an all-time low.
I’m not entirely convinced that the low population is due to carries. It’s due to a lot of factors that could be an entire topic in itself.
yep it was a mess. and like I said they got too big.
I 500% agree
a lot of people confuse ‘responsible’ in the sense a CEO is responsible for the company with ‘responsible’ in the ‘personally responsible’ sense we usually use the term.
it’s the exact same reason they think elon musk is a brilliant inventor.
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nah they just like to stomp on people who don’t play retail but insist on coming to the retail forums to tell us how trash it is. 
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My red Draenei shows I don’t play retail?
Lol.
Eh, I think the population dipping speaks for itself.
Also, PvP is quite dead and that’s all I played retail for.
Hardcore Classic is bumping right now, while retail just is not lol.
It’s always the same folks that hold retail in high regard, too. Most others just disagree.
The majority of the level 10 toons that are no-cheevo point throwaway bnets that spam “gold only” in services chat will immediately send you a discord invite link and give you RMT real dollar amount prices there.
So wait, if I pay gold (which I buy with cash, ooh hoo hoo) for gear I can’t get by playing, I just invalidated all the gear that I could get by playing?
Never made any sense to me. Seems like people buy a rush to the end and then have nothing to do, or am I missing something fundamental here? Like for what possible reason could you want an achievement that you didn’t actually play the game to acquire? It is not as if anyone actually cares at this point.
Carries are a real head scratcher where I’m coming from. I’d rather have open world catchup gear and be satisfied with, where am I, 419ilvl, than invalidate all that gear for money because number goes up or whatever.