Is WOW Free to Play?

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No, wow is not free to play, its pay to win!

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Well I used to pay but I have used accumulated in-game gold to pay for the past 2 years so I’m happy I finally realized I could do that. But naturally you should aways wonder why something is “free” these days.

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Leave the chicky nuggies out of this lol

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Because people are stupid enough to buy them.

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Pay to win is coming id bet my car on it. Don’t you people have phones!

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because mounts and pets are irrelevant, cosmetic and not mandatory to progress in the game
it brings in extra money for development, paying the legal fees and paying the employees

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You can easily “pay to play” in gold by doing some dailies, running table missions and selling the accrued items on the auction house. You can farm for 30 mins to an hour or simply rely on the methods above for around 45 minutes to an hour or two every day if you prefer to play casually. It’s not that time consuming depending on your RL obligations but it’s definitely manageable for most players.

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Also we can buy anything from the shop by buying tolkens with gold and coverting it on battlenet cash.

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Well, you can buy tokens with gold which makes it free to play 
 you can also buy anything from the shop , services with gold

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Looks like I found your problem. Mounts and cosmetics are not content.

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isnt it already here with boosting? All I ever see in trade chat these days is boosting ads.

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I pay monthly for my amazon sub, and I pay extra when I want a movie that isn’t free on its list. Seems like a pretty consistent subscription based model that offers extras to me.

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Active player. Io

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The mount store exists because people will pay for it. It’s an optional market, no power incentives, etc. and not to mention gold is money and money is gold, so every store mount can actually be purchased with gold.

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But if you pay you want what your paying for this new patch a 3 year old made it

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Just like people said, WoW is totally free as long as you afford a token for your next month. I know its really stupid to grind gold to keep playing but that’s the way it is. And mounts, pets and other stuffs on in game store, don’t worry about it. You can turn your WoW token to Blizzard Balance and get them legit your fav mounts, pets, mogs and other stuffs from the store as if you bought them by paying with your real money. But I have no interest in buying them because mounts are literally cosmetic stuffs just for showing off. Don’t think you are riding a giant poundfist mount and use your mount to smash enemies lmao. So what are they good for? Just for showing off! So idc. So like, as long as you have millions of gold in WoW, you can pretty much buy anything on Battlenet including games and cosmetics. You can even buy their partner games like Call of Duty Battlepasses with your WoW token. Crazy right?

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it’s been free for me ever since the wow token came out.

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58

You know what else is cRazY necroing threads!

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59

No, you have two options.

1.) play WoW
2.) don’t play WoW

Blizzard can run their company the way they see fit.

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This feels like you’ve wandered into an auditorium where a debate was held 7 months ago and started talking to no one.

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