Ever since the advent of the Token, it has become officially sanctioned from the top down, and Blizzard gets a piece if the action. In BC it may have been possible, but Blizzard used to fight the gold sellers, and threaten to ban the buyers.
If you can’t beat them, join them right?
You seem to be getting hung up on semantics. The term “win” seems to be your tent pole. It’s not a very secure pole, but you keep counting on it!
Hardly play the game anymore* fix yourself lol. But now instead of trying to combat the gold selling, the company is doing it themselves. You seem to love the legitimacy of it all now! Good on you!
Ok, none of that is relevant to this discussion, but I agree. It created a win-win for the players and Blizzard.
It’s similar to when states legalized pot. Instead of paying to combat it, they now save that money and have a new tax revenue stream. The states stopped fighting them and joined instead.
We obviously aren’t going to agree on this issue, and we both have stated our opinions. I’m going to find something else to do.
Just because I don’t raid doesn’t mean im bad at the game, and I like battlegrounds more than arena, again that doesn’t mean im bad at the game by any sense of the word.
No, money buys the achievement and mythic raid level gear. Big difference.
Boosting wasn’t anywhere NEAR as prevalent in the past as it is now. That’s a fact.
Still paying for a reward they didn’t earn. What’s the difference?
So if you bought a token for raid mats like you said and you couldn’t get gold for your token, you’d be perfectly ok with it?
I’ve stopped caring about gearing and progressing a long time ago. Tokens are still one of the worst things to happen to this game. They’ve turned it into a booster’s paradise.
In general its like who wants to spend the time grinding and busting their behind on the game when they could just work overtime at their job and get someone to do it for them in a matter of hours
its just far less of a headache to deal with for the same outcome.