Because tokens are an excuse bad players use to validate their lack of success.
Nothing more
Nothing less.
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So Iâm gonna tell you here and now. Boosters exist in every game, not all of them are loud at advertising but they are there. That is not a Blizzard issue despite how much you guys want to dump it on them. Regardless of what they do boosters WILL be there. Second, although I agree the state of Blizzard is in shambles at the moment I LIKE tokens, I know other people do as well since we donât necessarily want to pay 15 dollars every month for an older game when there is a cheap alternative. As far as a Blizzard character level boost, I was actually thinking of buying one today just so I could skip Shadowlands leveling on my 4th alt. Youâre complaining about things that some people are okay with and in some cases help the community. Botting I donât think is okay, people should actually have to play the game to get what they have but like I said, I am not sure how much it will help if Blizzard does anything about it. Itâs like buying an account on League, they ban and ban and ban them over and over but there are websites where people can buy the accounts for 2 bucks and Riot canât do anything about it because they canât always tell which account has been bought.
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Thatâs certainly an interesting take.
âDiminishes the integrity of the gameâ is one of those things you might put in a school essay when youâre fishing for word count but donât have anything meaningful to say.
What sort of âunfair playing fieldâ do you imagine it creates. Outside of PvP, the quality of a playerâs gear has no impact on anyoneâs gameplay but their own. Unless you somehow believe that a person buying a boost means that theyâre going to magically perform better (or get invited more often) in progression raids or M+ groups without having put in the effort to actually learn their character.
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I strongly disagree with this. Theyâre very upfront with clear addresses to RMT sites right in the group descriptions.
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I forget you have to spell everything out for children who donât understand the implications of stuff like thisâŚ
Diminishes the integrity of the game means:
Challenges were put into this game for players to overcome. Higher end M+, raiding, and pvp. All those are challenges put into the game. The integrity is in those challenges. If you can overcome youâre rewarded (usually if RNG doesnât crap on you) with high end gear for your efforts. When you can just pay someone or a company to overcome those challenges for you, youâve basically spit on the game and say âIâm above the rules, I donât have to do this on my own I can just buy my way through the most challenging content in the gameâ.
Youâre telling me this isnât the case? Please explain how boosting doesnât diminish the integrity of the game.
It 100% allows that person into more group opportunities than someone trying to work their way up on their own. In a group finder setting who are you going to choose: a lower io (or whatever it is now) score with a lower ilvl or a higher io score and a higher ilvl? You wonât know the higher io/ilvl person bought runs unless they couldnât perform in your runs and by then itâs too late, your key is bust and you have to start the process again.
You canât tell me, with a straight face, that boosting doesnât affect the game.
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Itâs an accurate take.
The vast majority of players arenât affected by token sales or boosts at all.
The token is used as a scapegoat for why Tim in accounting is hard capped at 1400 arena rating.
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Sure canât be because of all the boosters in arena that are actively boosting people for moneyâŚerâŚgold. You people are ridiculous.
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Isnât that most industries?
Ah, yes. So at the end of the day, youâre pissy that someone else is playing the game in a way you donât approve of. Not surprising.
What do you suppose is the difference between someone asking their group: âcan I bring my alt?â and that raid group organizing a sale run?
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Nothing to retort to ANYTHING else I said? You cherry pick this particular line and write something snarky. Figures. I shouldnât expect much from the dregs of GD.
Because the person asking if they can bring their alt has cultivated a social relationship of respect with their guild. Theyâve invested time into the game and are at a point to reap the rewards. Thatâs how it should be.
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I donât know if thatâs entirely accurate, some people have been complaining about the token since it arrived. Are they Tim in accounting who hasnât really pvpd in 3 expansions? The player base is more than a scapegoat/strawman.
Why canât both be true? People do complain wrongly about an unfair advantage the token gives some players and some players use the tokens and boosts culture for an unfair advantage?
If you arenât actively trash at the game boosters are a free win.
If youâre actively getting 1v2ed itâs a you issue.
People can complain about the token all they want. Doesnât make it a valid complaint.
The token isnât going to go anywhere and even if it was removed their main complaints wouldnât be solved.
Because itâs not an unfair advantage. Any boost can be purchased with or without a token. There isnât any gear locked behind only purchasing the token.
Feelings donât matter. Facts do.
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I hope you enjoy your ghostown of a game. You deserve it.
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Itâs kind of silly to assume that tokens havenât changed the way the game has been handled which would affect individual other players, and how that isnt a completely valid and accurate complaint. Or that there couldnt be more than a single concern or issue with the token. No its just that strawman youâve decided is all complaints.
Iâm not personally yelling about an âunfair advantageâ but itâs pretty silly to not see buying gold, even if itâs from the product provider, and then using that to buy boosts as not paying to win on some level. Regardless if itâs trivial. Itâs perfectly acceptable to see someone trading real cash for things when someone else is just trying to play a game.
If youâre so unwilling to consider that thereâs more than one facet to this subject, I canât help you and Iâm not willing to have that kind of a conversation. Have a good âIâm right and no else can be rightâ kind of posting time.
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Thatâs why I play other games.
Hope youâre not as bad at other games as you are at WoW.
Iâll bite.
The only people who complain about the token are the ones who canât afford it or arenât succeeding at the game.
The people who pay for their game with tokens arenât complaining
The people who sell boosts arenât complaining
The people who buy boosts arenât complaining.
The people who canât make gold or arenât succeeding in the game are the ones complaining.
Because by the actual definition itâs not pay to win. Tokens arenât required to buy boosts. Boosts arenât locked behind the store. Anyone who can make gold can buy a boost as well.
Anyone can have an opinion. The difference is if the opinion is valid and not just qq from bad players. I still have yet to see a good player complain about the token and even then,
Every example you just gave, wouldnât be changed if the token was removed.
People have been buying gold and boosts since before the token was introduced.
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Iâm by no means a fan of gold seller websites but you almost have to admire that level of effort.
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