First off you are not exchanging money for items, thus the definition of “pay to win” is not met. Second, if your problem is with buying boosts then maybe think more about it? It’s player emergent behavior where human beings still have to clear hard content and you don’t just instantly receive the gear. Buying a boost is ultimately comparable to buying a mats off the auction house, you are paying a person gold for going out into the world and doing the work for you, yet people don’t have a problem with this, likely because they are jealous of people making tons of gold from selling boosts.
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i have my criticisms of WoW, but yeah it’s def not pay to win.
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Yea I think it’s mostly just trolls complaining, no rational person would think wow is pay to win.
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A lot of rational people think that being able to buy virtually unlimited amounts of gold and being able to use that gold to buy carries that get them gear and the achievements they need to unlock to gain access to things like gear upgrades is a big step in the direction of pay to win.
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Lol OK man I am going to break it down for you.
“Classic Pay to Win Model”
Real World Money → Best Gear → Winning
“Blizzard Pay to Win Model”
Real World Money → Pay for carries in gold → Winning
This game is absolutely Pay to Win if you have the real world money for it.
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You left off an ‘ir’ there.
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So you are against people buying mats on the auction house?
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I bought 2 tokens to buy my legendary item because i was too lazy to farm the gold on my alt.
I circumvented a large portion of the process of getting that legendary with real money.
Seems kinda p2w. And i got some gold left over i can use, too.
You can spend money on a boost, and then on tokens, and have a 205 ilvl character. All you have to do is like 10 dungeons to level through SL. Seems p2w to me.
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Strawman here bigger than the one outside SW on Hallow’s Eve
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Sure. Go spend millions of gold on mythic raid carries. Buy KSM and a weekly carry for gear. Buy PvP rating and a weekly win to get the best PvP gear available.
Or are you a seller? I can see why you might want other people to think it’s irrational to think they’re getting their money’s worth by paying cash to get all the achievements and the best gear.
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How is buying a boost different than buying mats? You are paying a person to go into the world and farm for you.
Good job creating another thread to try to drown out the other one. Enjoy all those pixels and your new credit card debt.
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I’d start with the fact that you can ‘go into the world and farm’ mats yourself, where you can’t solo your way through Mythics and Raids.
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The game now facilitates enabling whales to max out their tokens and continue to buy carries for cash from helpful carriers. They think it’s pay to win. Perhaps the people they paid real money to for those carries over their token limit are telling themselves there’s nothing wrong with milking a sucker.
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This isn’t about difficulty of content. It’s about if wow is pay to win, if you are paying a person to farm mats for you then it is no different that paying for people to farm a raid for you yes?
Quite a few Blizzard shills replying here saying WoW isn’t pay-to-win when it most certainly is. You buy gold with cash officially, then you use the gold to buy your way to the top of the game.
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Crazy how it want from being against ToS to buy gold and paid carry services from 3rd party websites, but now that you include them in the game, all of a sudden, it’s an intended feature. 
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So you’re against buying mats on the auction house?
am curious. is it p2w if I use my 4 million that I earned without tokens to purchase a carry through sanctum? or is it only p2w if I use token gold?
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You’re hyperbolically focusing on the symptoms and not the cause. The fact that the wow token exists is the issue, not what specifically people spend gold on.
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