I like how guilds can just pay people a huge amounts of gold for tier pieces and funneling to their raiders.
tokens arent pay to win alright.
a raid leader of one of these guilds specifically said they paid 95 mil gold to people just so they can funnel tier pieces to their raiders. and theyre doing the same thing today.
If the gold didnt already exist in the economy, buying a token wouldnt do anything. Someone had to go and earn the gold to buy a token from someone else.
The only way it would be p2w is if you can go to the store and buy the “4 piece tier set bundle for $99.99”
Outside of that, its just players exchanging gold for gear which is great for the game.
Per one of the world first race raiders from BDGG:
I can say for certain that we have never spent real money to buy tokens for anything guild related, just because the conversion rate is so terrible compared to the amount of gold we can make in game from raid sales. You could spend a few hours each week doing raid sales over a few months to get 100,000,000 gold saved up, or you could (at current US token prices) buy ~870 tokens at 20$ each, spending $17,000 total for the same amount of gold. The numbers are not close - making gold in game for most guilds is so much more efficient than buying tokens.
The numbers are not close - making gold in game for most guilds is so much more efficient than buying tokens.
I can say for certain that we have never spent real money to buy tokens for anything guild related, just because the conversion rate is so terrible compared to the amount of gold we can make in game from raid sales.
Look how wrong you are
When they finish race to world first they move on to selling carries as a guild, not from discord boosting that is now banned
This is how they make their money for next tiers race