That's your interpretation of the goal.
Read: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/guide/
"Essentially, the core gameplay of World of Warcraft revolves around fighting monsters and completing quests."
By your logic the Battle Chest is pay to win, since you paid less than those who started playing in vanilla and who bought every expansion when it came out at full price. Or that every single discounted thing is paying to win because 'you are not paying the same amount than the ones who bought it when it was new'.
Also, you seem to be thinking that there should be no optional aspects to this game, even though you mentioned that everyone has different goals and ways to enjoy this game. Yet you preach about how everyone else should have to do the same things that everyone else did. There's no logic here, at all. If someone wants to boost their character to 90, then let them. It's not like it's deleting your accounts and characters or even in game achievements and gear. The idea of 'Bwaaaaah I don't feel so special anymore because anyone is buying their level 90s and don't have to level' is ridiculous in itself, because the problem in thinking like that is yourself.
The gear you get is insufficient to get you even into the current tier of raid content, unless you feed it with timeless gear, which ofc you can do with any alts.
You don't "win" anything
Always someone throwing that term around, and each and every time we have to tell them that they have no idea what it means.
Try searching and I am sure you will find multiple, if not dozens of threads asking exactly this same question and getting the same answer.
Don't jump on the bandwagon thinking it makes you look cool, when you are simply a sheep.
Nope. It's objectively not.
Since anything that makes your character more powerful for money = pay to win. The level 90 boost is pure pay to win. Even the games we traditionally call pay to win don't go this far with it.
The level 90 boost they're giving us for buying the expansion is just the Trojan horse to get the feature in the game with less complaining from the playerbase. Most of you ate it up, just like they knew you would.
This is on a completely different level. You pay for access to the game. When you purchase an expansion, it does not "give" you anything in game, it simply grants you access to more content.
When you pay for an item on the store, you do not unlock access to it in-game. You are simply given it for purchasing it. This is an important difference.
You and I would both agree that Blizzard is a very large and successful game company. I recognize fully that players have different goals, and obviously Blizzard does too. The difference is that there is an in-game solution to this and that Blizzard is a competent company that is capable of coming up with said solution.Also, you seem to be thinking that there should be no optional aspects to this game, even though you mentioned that everyone has different goals and ways to enjoy this game. Yet you preach about how everyone else should have to do the same things that everyone else did. There's no logic here, at all. If someone wants to boost their character to 90, then let them. It's not like it's deleting your accounts and characters or even in game achievements and gear. The idea of 'Bwaaaaah I don't feel so special anymore because anyone is buying their level 90s and don't have to level' is ridiculous in itself, because the problem in thinking like that is yourself.
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You don't get to pick and choose what's part of the gameplay. It's an inherent fact of the game. You get to CHOOSE which gameplay to engage in, that is the important difference.
Stupid question imo. Of course not.
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People voting 'yes' on this poll have no idea what a pay to win model actually is.
If some peoples lifes are so boring that they count turning lvl 90 as wining i feel really really bad for them. they really deserve a win in their life that actually is a win.
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
? Again? Do we REALLY need yet another topic about this? It's getting rather tiring.
and...no
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I really have to apologize. I should be putting in more effort to provide a compelling argument for you to see why I think your views are off and misinformed, and giving you more to believe what I say and understand my point. I'm just tired and hungry at the moment, and I can't be bothered to do so other than cheap jokes about firing a brick cannon. Sorry for that.
Yes, buying any form of advantage is considered a p2w.