Ok, I still don’t exactly know what you have paid to win at, but at least you are happy
Well to make high amounts of gold, you need high amounts of gold. I bought it with real money.
I truly feel like it would have taken me 1-2 years (probably 2) of dedicated time and life to make the 2.3 million gold with no prior alts or experience.
I feel like double XP and $400 of WOW token bought me 2 years of time.
Blizzard is very tricky with this game.
To make things valuable they have to make them hard or elusive to get.
Aka low drops, timegating, dailies, reputation …
I still have to do that stuff – but I got to skip the 2 years of farming saronite or anchorweed.
Nothing in WoW is pay to win BECAUSE of the token. Everything that can be bought from the Blizz store is available in game by making gold.
P2Win is ONLY true when you cannot earn the “thing” by playing the game. 
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Welp…
If you truly believe that you got your money’s worth out of that 400$, then… more power to you.
As the gobbos say,
Time is money, friend.
I see your point. I could have done exactly what I’m doing now by farming anchorweed for 18 months.
BUT I got to skip that 18 months with what is a few days salary for me.
Is that really fair to the other players?
I don’t know – if I had been earning my gold since 2016-217 – I’d be pissed if some noob came out of nowhere and pushed into my mount market with money Blizzard sold him.
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This is laughable at best. Years?? No.
Playing the AH, while it may personally be your P2W scenario, is not anything close to what it means to the community at large. If you didn’t know that, well, now you know. If you did know, then you were just being disingenuous.
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WoW has always been pay to win in that sense. Before tokens it was perfectly possible to buy gold (and even entire accounts) easily if you knew where to look.
Blizzard didn’t start heavily cracking on this until the token came around either. Sure there was botter banwaves but that’s about it really.
So its not a new realization at all.
Why is that laughable man?
I’m new.
Yeah, years dude.
You look at things through the lens of a veteran and think it would be easy for someone to grind out a bunch of 120s, have the foresight to save EVERything they ever made for jobs and investment – and then be 1 of the 3-5 major mount vendors on their server?
What do you think somebody who has never played the game can do that in … “months” without a 2.3 million gold loan?
On a side-note, Blizzard gave me a 110 and a 120 when I bought the game.
That really helped too.
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i can’t figure out which one this is
Probably the blacksmith mount.
I see the part where you paid, but I’m failing to see what you won.
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I’m still struggling with the fact you bought 400$ worth of wow tokens…
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So, with the gold you bought, what exactly is it that you can buy that I couldn’t?
No I don’t think they can. I know they can. With the changes to professions it’s even easier now. It wouldn’t take years or 2.3 million gold.
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Steelbound Harness or whatever?
I read it’s a blacksmith drop from a raid to craft the fel iron looking dog.
The recipe drops from a boss that can be solo’d.
Well, all I know is, going out and riding around in circles while watching Netflix to get 2000 saronite and 100 Titanium ore FELT like years … but it was only 6 hours.
I will agree it gets pricey if you don’t want to farm but you could max them all out in like a month if that. That includes leveling the characters even without an extra 100% bonus.
ah ok