Pay money for gold > pay gold for carry > get gear 0 effort > stomp poor saps playing the game legit or “finally play the game” ? whatever that means.
And this is all allowed & support by Blizzard. The process of gearing must be so awful that SL has pumped seller activity by leaps and magnitudes higher than I’ve ever witnessed in any game. Its like logging into Diablo 2 and seeing all those bot spammers as soon as you create a game.
And we all know a lot of this stuff is shady lets not kid ourselves but now they can get away with it. Blizz turns a blind eye because they profit. Almost like it was planned hmm, keep WoW on maintenance mode and let it all burn? Is that the plan?
Lets just throw a few MMOs that aren’t plagued by this issue. GW2, FF14, ESO.
Multi-dollar company Blizzard has big problems tho.
Bad players are bad players no matter what kind of gear they are in. Bad players will still keyboard turn and click their spells, bad players will still stand in bad and not follow mechanics. It’s doubtful that anyone who has done much non-trivial content above random battlegrounds, LFR, and heroic dungeons truly believes this game is p2w.
Yes, of course. It doesn’t matter that the first step involves spending real life cash, and the last step involves getting gear as a direct result of spending real life cash.
P2W is only if you buy something directly from a cash shop.
(I don’t believe this, it’s blatantly obvious it is a P2W feature, and people want to use semantics as the argument as they so often do. I mean, if you don’t want to call it P2W, name it something else, but recognize it for what it is.)
The playerbase has used mental gymnastics to convince themselves this doesn’t count as p2w. Good luck trying to convince people that the sky is blue when their heads are buried in the sand
What best rewards? Deck out a player who clicks, keyboard turns, and can’t follow mechanics in BiS mythic gear and they still won’t be able to clear normal without a carry.
