The race to world first has never made sense to me. Why do i care what other people do in a game, when they dont pay my subscription.
With the big discussion around GDKPS being banned in SOD/Classic, why is the world first race allowed/designed to function like this? Liquid guild is paying 350,000 gold per full heroic so they can pay for the gear for their raiders. How is this even remotely allowed? The guild can buy all the tokens they want and give the gold to whatever server. This is one of the reasons the world first race is such a joke and embarrassment to the game. They are paying people to design weakauras, buy gear from others, boes or whatever else they need. Its all pay to win.
Why were classic servers so attacked for having GDKP? Liquid and other top guilds are basically doing GDKPs where no one else has the gold to buy any items.
World first race in my opinion is no different than a GDKP. All the attention world first race brings is only for the people involved honestly. Growing streams and making money while playing.
Its a shame blizzard allows this horrible gameplay/player behavior to happen.
paying won’t guarantee the win, no.
Streamers and WF raiders aren’t held to the same rules and scrutiny as us normies.
This. OP this is like saying Elon Musk could roll up to the RWF and spend a ton of money to recruit the best players, buy the best gear, etc to carry him to world first. That would never happen, it’s not feasible.
RWF is like the WWE. No bases in reality. And more akin to being a staged spectacle.
He did it for Diablo 
You have to give everything to get it down. Multiple alts with 10s cleared, whatever mythic boes to get player power, and need to be very good at the game.
Pay to win implies that the act of paying itself will get you a win. But yes it’s expensive af
i know it doesnt guarantee the win. I never even mentioned winning once. I was just more talking about the type of gameplay/behavior it creates and compared how its allowed in 1 version, but not another
You aren’t obliged to. Live your life.
OP, give me millions of gold.
I will guarantee I cannot do this. Hell I can’t do mythic. Being real honest I took mercy spots in vaults for pvp weapon chances (pve was bis in wrath) in wrath redo lol. raid ain’t my thing really.
Its become so thrown in our face. Battle net launcher. Including in game rewards for watching some of these events. Its a little to much, specially when the gameplay/behavior around the world first is awful for the game.
they are not doing mythic at the moment. they are paying 350k for people to fill heroic slots and give them loot.
Why is the gameplay awful for the game?
If you don’t like the race that’s fine, just don’t try to drag it down because you don’t understand what pay to win means. They certainly may pay other players and etc., but that’s not pay to win, thats called staying competitive against your competition that’s doing the exact same thing. The race to world first is more of an arms race of who can get the most trinkets and gewr than anything else.
By spending as much gold as they can to buy the gear.
It creates a “Me me” attitude. Sure you get 350k, a lttile more than 25 dollars to help these people get world first. After that, do they even remember you? You were nothing to them, just a slot to feed them gear. Do you think they would ever do the same for you after race? 100% not. They have endless gold and can do whatever they want and thats how they treat the game. Community aspect for them is gone, its give me give me.
You shouldn’t. I certainly don’t.
Are we done, here?
It didn’t start with blizz though. Guilds were always vying to be the first, and people of course were interested. Then some guilds started streaming their progress, and websites started covering it. And then sponsers got involved. Blizzard were actually pretty late in getting involved with any direct promotion because it raises questions about things like conflict of interest, favouritism, exploitation. It might restrict their ability to properly fix bugs because some might perceive it as them interfering with the race.
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You’re kidding, right? Pay to win? Really?
Please learn what terms mean before you use them.
Dude they’re trying to kill the mythic boss first in the world, yes I’d imagine it’s a bit more of a priority than someone gearing over a season.
Mythic boes are way more expensive tho, they’d be paying several millions
lol what, why would they even care about that?
What a weird thing to say
Short answer: yes
Long answer: yes