Is wow pay to win now?

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@Aliandrin-fizzcrank

What they want: To win

What they do: Pay

“But that’s not paying to win because you didn’t give your money directly to Blizz!”

Pfft. You really have to follow through with this thinking. P2W describes something that happens to games that generally is thought of as cruddy.

Would every horrible cruddy game you admit is P2W be one iota less cruddy if the company just hid what it was doing and disguised its cash shop as real players and carries?

Does it change anything about what’s happening to the game if it turns out Blizz is using fake parties with entirely generated gear to cash in on these carries themselves?

No.

When you start insisting on novel definitions of terms that divorce those terms from the reasons they came into use, you’re just gaming the argument. If you win, everybody loses, because the meanings that language exists to convey have been lost.

By your definition wow has been pay to win for 15 years then…since paid runs have existed that long…