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  1. #241
    Quote Originally Posted by Raelbo View Post
    It's definitely not p2w. It's not about the level of power of the gear but about whether paying $$ for it is a most effective means of acquisition. This is as it has always been.
    Bullshit, plain and simple. Youve never been able to acquire so much power from boes before and neither were you able to use real money for gold. The easiest way to increase your power beyond heroic, isnt raiding or farming. Its buying tokens.

  2. #242
    Quote Originally Posted by Lei View Post
    I love how people still defend it. If these boe-s were directly on the shop, I bet some would still stand by it. We are just a tiny step away from that.
    we are not a step closer to it since begining of wow...
    and it would be HUGE LEAP if we get gear on shop... ofc there would be people who wouldn mind, there are always people who would prefer to put the credit card in and buy BIS gear, thats why "free to play" games earns a lot of money, but im pretty sure huge majority of people would be against that...
    and given we didnt get any closer to it on over a decade im confident blizz is against it too... maybe when the game will be on its dead bed and they will go to f2p model it will happen, but thats far in the future and even then unlikely

  3. #243
    Quote Originally Posted by Lolites View Post
    we are not a step closer to it since begining of wow...
    and it would be HUGE LEAP if we get gear on shop... ofc there would be people who wouldn mind, there are always people who would prefer to put the credit card in and buy BIS gear, thats why "free to play" games earns a lot of money, but im pretty sure huge majority of people would be against that...
    and given we didnt get any closer to it on over a decade im confident blizz is against it too... maybe when the game will be on its dead bed and they will go to f2p model it will happen, but thats far in the future and even then unlikely
    Theyre making a killing off of token right now and youre dellusional if you think othereise

  4. #244
    Quote Originally Posted by Eugenik View Post
    Bullshit, plain and simple. Youve never been able to acquire so much power from boes before and neither were you able to use real money for gold. The easiest way to increase your power beyond heroic, isnt raiding or farming. Its buying tokens.
    as a frost dk (afaik) i can buy hands and rings, both with terrible stats, but lets say they would have the best corruptions (although i think i couldnt equip both at the same time if that is the case), that is not much of power progresion compared to gearing up fully in mythic or m+...
    even if id buy those two pieces i still have to farm rest of the equip, i have 16 slots, 2 are those BOE, two are neck and back, so thats still a dozen pieces of gear i have to get from raid or m+... so its "easier" bcs i dont have to farm 14 pieces but 12, and in the time i get those 12 i would probably got other corrupted items that migh be weaker but i can have more of them, and i can use hands/ring with better stats...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eugenik View Post
    Theyre making a killing off of token right now and youre dellusional if you think othereise
    since the price didnt dramaticaly change in 8.3, it means supply and demand havent dramaticaly change either... sooo YOU are delusional

  5. #245
    Quote Originally Posted by Lolites View Post
    as a frost dk (afaik) i can buy hands and rings, both with terrible stats, but lets say they would have the best corruptions (although i think i couldnt equip both at the same time if that is the case), that is not much of power progresion compared to gearing up fully in mythic or m+...
    even if id buy those two pieces i still have to farm rest of the equip, i have 16 slots, 2 are those BOE, two are neck and back, so thats still a dozen pieces of gear i have to get from raid or m+... so its "easier" bcs i dont have to farm 14 pieces but 12, and in the time i get those 12 i would probably got other corrupted items that migh be weaker but i can have more of them, and i can use hands/ring with better stats...

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    since the price didnt dramaticaly change in 8.3, it means supply and demand havent dramaticaly change either... sooo YOU are delusional
    Lmao those two boes could be close to a 30% dmg increase

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    Not really P2W
    FOMO: "Fear Of Missing Out", also commonly known as people with a mental issue of managing time and activities, many expecting others to fit into their schedule so they don't miss out on things to come. If FOMO becomes a problem for you, do seek help, it can be a very unhealthy lifestyle..

  7. #247
    Quote Originally Posted by Eugenik View Post
    Lmao those two boes could be close to a 30% dmg increase
    i have rank 3 twilight devastation ring which makes 9% of my dmg IN TANK SPEC (as its based on hp)
    for dps its under 5%, and i cant possibly equip other corrupted items with it, so if i equip my better stat ring and corrupted +% of mastery and crit items it increase my dps more...

    eh, why do i even bother with moron like you who just pull a number of his ass without actualy checking it in game... wellcome to ignore
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  8. #248
    Quote Originally Posted by Raelbo View Post
    I love how people make such ludicrously false equivalences - and then act all smugly. Being able to buy boe's directly from the shop would be a massively different proposition.
    Quote Originally Posted by Lolites View Post
    we are not a step closer to it since begining of wow...
    and it would be HUGE LEAP if we get gear on shop... ofc there would be people who wouldn mind, there are always people who would prefer to put the credit card in and buy BIS gear, thats why "free to play" games earns a lot of money, but im pretty sure huge majority of people would be against that...
    and given we didnt get any closer to it on over a decade im confident blizz is against it too... maybe when the game will be on its dead bed and they will go to f2p model it will happen, but thats far in the future and even then unlikely
    People say the current situation is not pay to win because even if you dress up in the most OP gear, you're still just a noob to achieve "win". So why would it be different? Basically gear doesn't matter because even with it you still can't achieve the "win". My comment was for this silly argument.

    Right now, this only affects the top guilds really. Because they have the funds (or lends) to buy these up. It's easy to dismiss something in the game while it doesn't affect you. But when it reaches you (the not tops), squealing will be little too late.

    Edit: And if you come with the "well, winning is different for everyone". Then I'd like to point you to the cosmetics (mounts, pets) in the store. Because "winning" for some is in cosmetics.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eugenik View Post
    Bullshit, plain and simple. Youve never been able to acquire so much power from boes before and neither were you able to use real money for gold. The easiest way to increase your power beyond heroic, isnt raiding or farming. Its buying tokens.
    Please stop for a second and think this through instead of applying simplistic thinking to conclude that I am talking bullshit. Your condescending tone is neither appreciated, nor is it justified.

    Firstly, consider availability: there aren't nearly sufficient available BoE's to make them the de facto gearing mechanism of choice. And how exactly are BoE's being supplied? Yes, by raiders. Doing the content. If a BoE is available on the AH it means that someone did the content.

    Secondly, consider who is buying those BoE's. What evidence do you have that the primary market for them is people who need to spend $$ to buy gold? Precisely zero. That's because the people who typically have that kind of gold are not players who need to spend $$ buying tokens. If anything it's the same people who buy the tokens for gold.

    If you were to take 10 000 of the players on a server (150 000 pieces of gear), you'd probably find only a handful of BoE's bought using token gold. Your assertion that buying tokens to buy gear is the easiest way to obtain ridiculous power is patently nonsense.

  10. #250
    Quote Originally Posted by Raelbo View Post
    Please stop for a second and think this through instead of applying simplistic thinking to conclude that I am talking bullshit. Your condescending tone is neither appreciated, nor is it justified.

    Firstly, consider availability: there aren't nearly sufficient available BoE's to make them the de facto gearing mechanism of choice. And how exactly are BoE's being supplied? Yes, by raiders. Doing the content. If a BoE is available on the AH it means that someone did the content.

    Secondly, consider who is buying those BoE's. What evidence do you have that the primary market for them is people who need to spend $$ to buy gold? Precisely zero. That's because the people who typically have that kind of gold are not players who need to spend $$ buying tokens. If anything it's the same people who buy the tokens for gold.

    If you were to take 10 000 of the players on a server (150 000 pieces of gear), you'd probably find only a handful of BoE's bought using token gold. Your assertion that buying tokens to buy gear is the easiest way to obtain ridiculous power is patently nonsense.
    Non-sequitur after non-sequitur.. none of that is relevant. Literally none of it. You can buy the best gear with real money. Whether or not its the main way people chose to gear is wholly irrelevant.

  11. #251
    Quote Originally Posted by XDurionX View Post
    You could always buy BOEs for money, so either wow has always been p2w or never.
    The difference is the "Power Increase" of those BOEs. If you buy 2 BOEs with rank 3 infinite stars then the even bad players can do really high damage. And this will get worse as our corruption resistance increases.

    Corruption effects reduce the value of being a skillful player.

  12. #252
    Quote Originally Posted by Lei View Post
    It's easy to dismiss something in the game while it doesn't affect you.
    my issue is its been in game pretty much since the begining, and over those 15 years it didnt affect me at all, and tbh it didnt even get worse so WHY should i assume it will all of a sudden get worse and/or affect me?

    its the same as with celestial steed, when it was introduced it wa sa harbringer of the apocalypse for people on forums, it meant that very next day we will buy BIS gear on shop and that it will kill wow and... nothing happened, decade later we still only have cosmetics on shop

    im not agains being aware of "threats", but to use analogy, not leaving house bcs a car MIGHT hit me when i go out is a bit ridiculous...

  13. #253
    Quote Originally Posted by Raelbo View Post
    Secondly, consider who is buying those BoE's. What evidence do you have that the primary market for them is people who need to spend $$ to buy gold? Precisely zero.
    But that is besides the point. The fact is that if you want to, you can go to the auction house and buy really powerful corruption effects with $$ and that is paying real life money to get an impactful in-game advantage. This is the definition of p2w. Maybe only a few players will actually do it but that doesn't change the fact that you can do it.

  14. #254
    Quote Originally Posted by Kaver View Post
    The difference is the "Power Increase" of those BOEs. If you buy 2 BOEs with rank 3 infinite stars then the even bad players can do really high damage. And this will get worse as our corruption resistance increases.

    Corruption effects reduce the value of being a skillful player.
    if a noob buy and equip two pieces of gear with rank3 infinite stars he will die bcs of corruption effects and do ZERO dmg...
    and even if not WHY ON EARTH do i give a fuck that some random Joe does more dps than me? in pve he is HELPING ME to clear the content, and in pvp corruptions are weakened, and high corruption actualy can kill you sooner than help you...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaver View Post
    But the point is that you're able to do it. If you want to you can go to the auction house and buy really powerful corruption effects with $$ and that is paying real life money to get an impactful in-game advantage.
    you can buy a ferrari but if you are shit at driving it what good does it make to you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lei View Post
    People say the current situation is not pay to win because even if you dress up in the most OP gear, you're still just a noob to achieve "win". So why would it be different? Basically gear doesn't matter because even with it you still can't achieve the "win". My comment was for this silly argument.

    Right now, this only affects the top guilds really. Because they have the funds (or lends) to buy these up. It's easy to dismiss something in the game while it doesn't affect you. But when it reaches you (the not tops), squealing will be little too late.

    Edit: And if you come with the "well, winning is different for everyone". Then I'd like to point you to the cosmetics (mounts, pets) in the store. Because "winning" for some is in cosmetics.
    Listen, it's really, really simple:

    1) Do you feel compelled to go out and buy tokens to be able to be able to compete in this game?
    2) Are a signficant number of people in your peer group (ie those you're competing against) doing just that?

    If the answer to either of these questions is "no" then tokens are not pay to win.

  16. #256
    Quote Originally Posted by Lolites View Post
    my issue is its been in game pretty much since the begining, and over those 15 years it didnt affect me at all, and tbh it didnt even get worse so WHY should i assume it will all of a sudden get worse and/or affect me?
    .
    Because now Blizzard manipulates both ends of the market. Blizzard is the one who make these crazy OP lucrative items to drop as BoE and they are the ones who sell gold to players to be able buy it.
    When buying gold was not in Blizz's direct hands, it was slightly different.

    With this tactics, not only mounts are seasonal on the shop (shit expansion -> we need money -> put a mount on the shop for whales/collectors), but we can end up with gear being second-hand (word?) shop items. (shit expansion -> we need money -> crazy OP boes rain from the sky for the die hard raiders, we'll say it was an ooopsie)
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  17. #257
    14 pages of LFR raiders that believe buying an Infinite Stars BoE magically makes them win World of Warcraft, because apparently you win MMORPGs.

    Because its the corruption that stops you from finishing Skitra and that +5

    Never change mmo-champion.

    Stay subbed also, your free 13e gives us new raids every 6 months.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaver View Post
    But that is besides the point. The fact is that if you want to, you can go to the auction house and buy really powerful corruption effects with $$ and that is paying real life money to get an impactful in-game advantage. This is the definition of p2w.
    No, that is not the definition of p2w. It's your definition, and it's a pretty poor one, especially if the argument is that you're trying to prove that tokens are some kind of problem.

    As I already said, a far better definition of p2w is that you are required to pay in order to win.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kaver View Post
    Maybe only a few players will actually do it but that doesn't change the fact that you can do it.
    Sure. But the significance of this fact is directly proportional to how many actually do.

  19. #259
    Quote Originally Posted by Lolites View Post
    if a noob buy and equip two pieces of gear with rank3 infinite stars he will die bcs of corruption effects and do ZERO dmg...
    and even if not WHY ON EARTH do i give a fuck that some random Joe does more dps than me? in pve he is HELPING ME to clear the content, and in pvp corruptions are weakened, and high corruption actualy can kill you sooner than help you...

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    you can buy a ferrari but if you are shit at driving it what good does it make to you?
    If the discussion is "can you buy a very significant power increase for real life money in WoW" then the answer is simply: Yes. More than ever.

    And the corruption effects are not based on skill at all. So even a bad player can get almost full advantage of rank 3 infinite stars. Staying alive will get easier with higher corruption resistance on the cloak.
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  20. #260
    Quote Originally Posted by Raelbo View Post
    As I already said, a far better definition of p2w is that you are required to pay in order to win
    This the epitome of projection. Youre literally changing the definition so it fits your narrative.. pathetic

    The simple fact that the means exist, to buy the best gear, with real money, is all thats required for a system to be considered pay to win. Show us otherwise please.

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