Why does Reddit think WoW is P2W?

18k posts on the wow forums. Bud you lost the ability to claim normality long long ago.

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Devil’s advocate. No it doesn’t. There is no way to tell who actually plays and who doesn’t. There’s no way to know if any have a personal grudge against the game or not.

As petty as people can be in here I don’t put it past anybody who is a die hard fan of the genre to be rational or fair.

A raid spot is a raider spot smart one.

You’re gonna have to learn how read.

Now that is a very different argument and one that you will have a much more difficult time proving. Boosting doesn’t rely on RMT since it can be done entirely with in-game currency acquired from normal play. So it’s incredibly difficult to make that a central pillar of P2W.

Well if it ever happens I’ll be celebrating in some capacity.

Considering Blizz has outright said boosting for gold isn’t against the tos there’s no rules to enforce.

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But RMT happens. Things get foggier when you factor in the bought gold.

Except, ya know, banning people for doing it. /shrug

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I don’t think I’d want to relearn the English language with you as my teacher.

We’d get no where fast.

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Brewa made a perfectly good point and all you’ve got is the fallacy of ad hominem.
If you can’t attack the message, attack the messenger.

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That’s a separate argument though. It’s not the boosting that’s causing the issue there, it’s the RMT. Similarly, Blizzard has never banned anyone for boosting, they’ve banned people for RMT (for which the service they received was a boost.)

And you brought it up, so not my problem.

RMT is only a problem because bliz doesn’t get a cut.

I didn’t? You’re the first person who said that boosting is what makes WoW P2W. I was just responding to it saying that you would have a difficult time hinging your argument on it.

Are you seriously arguing that the intended way to get a thing is to break the rules?

They make all their money from wow in micro transactions. They aren’t going to do anything that compromises that revenue stream.

You seem to be under the misapprehension that I care about your opinion. Sorry if I wasn’t clear that I don’t.

I’m arguing that to a redditor, particularly a casual without much of a pulse on how the game works, they might interpret the RMT/boosting thing as an unofficial P2W method.

Okay…

So?

Boosts for RMT aren’t legal. Boosts for gold are legal

You expect randoms on reddit to care for the difference?

OP’s question has been answered, so I’ll stop wasting my time here.