The ONLY argument I see regarding mounts being P2W that has any merit at all is - the early store mounts that got mailed to EVERY toon, and matched riding skill (as all mounts now do) meaning it was a somewhat significant saving in gold, and any mount that has additional features such as AH / Repairs. These are common place now in retail, so their "power" has been reduced, but previously had been at very least quite convenient.
As i said, those are still somewhat of a stretch, but until they introduce a mount that increases speed by 500% to the store, I agree that they are very much cosmetic only.
If your aim in the game is to collect every mount then having some locked behind a paywall means you can't complete your aim without buying them from the store. If you see someone with that mount then you know you'll never get it without putting down money, whereas if you see a boosted character you know that with time you can reach the same level and even surpass them.
It IS content, it doesn't matter whether you personally like it or not. Levelling is content, BGs are content, dungeons are content, professions are content, even pet battles (in retail ofc) are content. You not liking it doesn't change the fact that not only it is content, but also a sizeable part of it, in the context of BC.
So buying a full set of SWP gear wouldn't be P2W, just because someone might not be interested in PvE. I see...
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No my dude, that isn't how it works. Content is content, regardless of personal preferences. If someone doesn't want to do it, more power for them, but denying its existence is just absurd. That's like saying that mythic raids aren't content just because I'm not interested in mythic raiding.
If you read the post carefully, you will notice that I used a conditional tense, "wouldn't", thus implying that I'm talking about a something hypothetic, not about something that actually exists, in which case I'd be using present tense. Words have a meaning and a context, who would have thought.
Yes it is. BC isn't a standalone game, it's an expansion. Again, words have meanings.
Oh boy more false equivalencies! That is the most asinine example because in those situations both people have a mount. You're trying to say I would need to not use my mount and handicap myself just to justify your utterly stupid standards for what is and isn't p2w. I really hope you didn't pull anything when doing all this reaching.
I disagree
It can exist but for them it's not contentIf someone doesn't want to do it, more power for them, but denying its existence is just absurd.
For them it isn'tThat's like saying that mythic raids aren't content just because I'm not interested in mythic raiding.
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Yes, words have meanings, and hypothetical scenarios that have never existed in the game have no place as a grounds for comparison. That wasn’t a litmus test, it was you pulling a non-existent scenario out of thin air.
And TBC doesn’t have to be a standalone game to differentiate content. What are you even saying?
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