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  1. #841
    Quote Originally Posted by Temp name View Post
    In MoP I had ~10k gold. At the end of Legion I had about 1.5mil.

    That's the reason. WoD and Legion had insane amounts of inflation because of garrison and class halls. At the end of Legion you were raking in 4-12k gold a day per character if they were maxed out.
    Then you are one of very few and wealthy players, I can assure you the vast majority of players dont amass those numbers.

    There were a clik of opportunists that made bank during WoD and Legion, not everybody. So I dont agree with the inflation-argument.

  2. #842
    46 pages of pointless mental gymnastics to philosophise why pay to win isn't pay to win.

    Can you buy BIS items from AH? Yes, you can. Can you buy items from websites for real cash like Diablo 2 days? Yes you can. Are world first guilds power buying the best items across multiple realms in order to gain a competitive advantage? Yes they are. Can you buy gold with real cash used to purchase these items from AH? Yes you can and from Blizzard themselves, who profit more when you do.

    Yes it's pay to win, if that hurts your feelings you can rationalise or mind bend your way around it to make you feel better but that doesn't change the facts or the perception, either way it's not going to change so play or don't play.
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  3. #843
    Quote Originally Posted by Bigbazz View Post
    46 pages of pointless mental gymnastics to philosophise why pay to win isn't pay to win.

    Can you buy BIS items from AH? Yes, you can. Can you buy items from websites for real cash like Diablo 2 days? Yes you can. Are world first guilds power buying the best items across multiple realms in order to gain a competitive advantage? Yes they are. Can you buy gold with real cash used to purchase these items from AH? Yes you can and from Blizzard themselves, who profit more when you do.

    Yes it's pay to win, if that hurts your feelings you can rationalise or mind bend your way around it to make you feel better but that doesn't change the facts or the perception, either way it's not going to change so play or don't play.

    Then theres no game on this or any other planet that is not pay to win. I find that hard to believe. But by your standards it must be true!

  4. #844
    Quote Originally Posted by Vidhjerta View Post
    Then you are one of very few and wealthy players, I can assure you the vast majority of players dont amass those numbers.

    There were a clik of opportunists that made bank during WoD and Legion, not everybody. So I dont agree with the inflation-argument.
    Obviously not everyone did. I'm terrible at making gold, so I never did, but tons of people made gold hand over fist. In order for that gold to mean something, there have to be items in game to spend it on. Whether you agree with the notion of inflation or not is rather irrelevant. It did happen. If players like you or I didn't take advantage that does not mean that plenty of others missed the boat.

  5. #845
    Quote Originally Posted by Packmule View Post
    Then theres no game on this or any other planet that is not pay to win. I find that hard to believe. But by your standards it must be true!
    I'm not sure the original lunar lander had a way to buy things or pac-man or frogger.

  6. #846
    Quote Originally Posted by jellmoo View Post
    Obviously not everyone did. I'm terrible at making gold, so I never did, but tons of people made gold hand over fist. In order for that gold to mean something, there have to be items in game to spend it on. Whether you agree with the notion of inflation or not is rather irrelevant. It did happen. If players like you or I didn't take advantage that does not mean that plenty of others missed the boat.
    I guess we're down to either buying the darned wow-token or becoming m+ boosters if we ever want to afford a mount again.

    Just think its a sad development, we have plenty of rare % dropchance mounts. We dont need to overprice vendormounts to keep them "rare".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vidhjerta View Post

    Just look at the pricing differences between these two almost identical mounts. One from MoP one from BFA.

    There is no reason to put mounts behind these insane prices other than pushing people to buy the wow-token.
    Because collecting generic look-alike mounts is definitely 'winning' WoW.
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  8. #848
    Quote Originally Posted by Logwyn View Post
    I'm not sure the original lunar lander had a way to buy things or pac-man or frogger.
    With how people comprehend what pay to win is these days, sure u could. You’d pay the best pac-man or frogger player in the world a handfull of money, and he could get a highscore so high nobody could compete.

    Pay to win can litterly be used on ANY game.
    If people think so small minded about it.

  9. #849
    Quote Originally Posted by Mirishka View Post
    Because collecting generic look-alike mounts is definitely 'winning' WoW.
    To a lot of players collecting achievements and adding to collections is their way of "winning" the game yeah, so whats your point?

  10. #850
    Quote Originally Posted by Packmule View Post
    Then theres no game on this or any other planet that is not pay to win. I find that hard to believe. But by your standards it must be true!
    Ahh yes I remember passing my bank details over when I won at Street Fighter or in iRacing. Every game is pay to win boys because you have to pay to play.
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  11. #851
    Quote Originally Posted by qil View Post
    Players: 150k for Nzoth Heroic
    Also players: evil blizzard! wow is now pay to win!
    Wow-token + Overpriced mounts says hi.

  12. #852
    Quote Originally Posted by Vidhjerta View Post
    Wow-token + Overpriced mounts says hi.
    PvE win = Clearing Mythic Raids or high-level mythic plus dungeons.
    PvP win = High rank Arenas/Rated BGs.

    Not seeing where mounts fit in.

    Pay-to-win has a simple definition: The developer (Blizzard) selling equipment with stats. Mounts are not pay-to-win. Cosmetics are not pay-to-win. Player-sold loot/runs are not pay-to-win.

    WoW is not pay-to-win and will not be pay-to-win until Blizzard starts selling non-cosmetic equipment.
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  13. #853
    Quote Originally Posted by Belloc View Post
    PvE win = Clearing Mythic Raids or high-level mythic plus dungeons.
    PvP win = High rank Arenas/Rated BGs.

    Not seeing where mounts fit in.

    Pay-to-win has a simple definition: The developer selling equipment with stats. Mounts are not pay-to-win. Cosmetics are not pay-to-win. Player-sold loot/runs are not pay-to-win.

    WoW is not pay-to-win and will not be pay-to-win until Blizzard starts selling non-cosmetic equipment.
    Wrong.

    People play the game in more ways than you list.

    To other players than you winning the game can mean completing collections or transmogs.

    So yes WoW is pay to win with the wow-token and the inflated prices for everything in-game at the moment.

  14. #854
    Quote Originally Posted by Vidhjerta View Post
    Wrong.

    People play the game in more ways than you list.

    To other players than you winning the game can mean completing collections or transmogs.

    So yes WoW is pay to win with the wow-token and the inflated prices for everything in-game at the moment.
    Just because you're too lazy to make gold any other way than using a credit card does not make any of this P2W.
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  15. #855
    Quote Originally Posted by ymirsson View Post
    Just because you're too lazy to make gold any other way than using a credit card does not make any of this P2W.
    Oh and an insult, how classy.

    Just because your love for Blizzard makes you too blind and stubborn to understand it doesnt mean it isnt there.

  16. #856
    Quote Originally Posted by Vidhjerta View Post
    I guess we're down to either buying the darned wow-token or becoming m+ boosters if we ever want to afford a mount again.

    Just think its a sad development, we have plenty of rare % dropchance mounts. We dont need to overprice vendormounts to keep them "rare".
    Just because the easy methods are gone doesn't make it impossible. If somebody applies themselves to playing the AH and/or selling in game services, it is still a goal to be accomplished. It may take a while, but it's more than doable. In some ways it's almost like the original sprint to make 1000 gold for the epic mount in Classic. A long term goal that requires careful planning and dedication.

  17. #857
    Quote Originally Posted by Vidhjerta View Post
    Oh and an insult, how classy.

    Just because your love for Blizzard makes you too blind and stubborn to understand it doesnt mean it isnt there.
    Just because you are blinded by your hatred for Blizzard and too stubborn to understand doesn't mean any of that mount crap is P2W.
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    A lot of us were clearing the old raids for gold, or creating alts to perform a lot of the gold world quests for raw gold - but I kid you not, I have friends with like 10-20M gold just sitting there from WoD Garrisons - the amount of gold people made back then was insanity

    I'm actually surprised Blizz hasn't released a 9M mount for SLands yet

  19. #859
    WOW isn't pay to win but it is Pay2SaveTime. Everything can be obtained by an organic means and there's nothing locked behind a cash purchase so yeah p2W doesnt apply at all really. If I want to buy AOTC to get the Nzoth mount or Mythic Jaina rather than return and spend the time finding a guild and progressing through it then I see absolutely no issue there because it can all still be done without spending a penny.

  20. #860
    Quote Originally Posted by Vidhjerta View Post
    Wrong.

    People play the game in more ways than you list.

    To other players than you winning the game can mean completing collections or transmogs.

    So yes WoW is pay to win with the wow-token and the inflated prices for everything in-game at the moment.
    Blizzard doesn't sell gold, they sell WoW Tokens. WoW tokens are tradeable game time. The gold used to purchase those tokens already exists in the game as a result of player activity.

    Achievements are not a win-condition, no matter what a player's intentions are. WoW is an MMORPG. Gameplay in WoW is either PvE or PvP. Achievements are a byproduct of these systems and would not exist on their own. One does not win at Xbox just because they have the most achievements. One does not win at Playstation just because they have the most trophies. One does not win at WoW just because they've got a nice collection.

    Anyone can play the game however they want, but your personal goals are just that: Personal goals. They are not in-game win conditions.

    Remember: You can collect all the mounts you want, but you'll never be able to collect as many mounts as someone who has been playing since day one, got the Scarab Lord mount, got the first two Glory mounts, and got any other mounts that were removed from the game... or achievements that were removed from the game... or anything else that was removed from the game. Achievements and collections do not exist on a fair playing field like Raids, Dungeons, and PvP do, nor are they tracked in any official capacity like Raids and PvP are.

    PvE and PvP content are the win conditions. End of story. You can play the game however you want and enjoy it that way, but your personal goals are not the game's win conditions.

    There's no achievement for having all of the achievements. There's no achievement for having all of the available mounts. You might want to think about why that is.

    One last thing to consider: Some players are trolls. They exist to make other players mad. Their sole goal in this game is to piss people off. Are they winning at WoW when they are successful in doing so?
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