1. #1601
    Quote Originally Posted by rhorle View Post
    I am not confused.
    Ironically, you're just seeming to come off as more confused.
    I never said anything close to what you're saying about this.

    I'm saying I'm confused why you're wasting so much time if you don't care that much, or that you're fine with.

  2. #1602
    Quote Originally Posted by Jester Joe View Post
    Ironically, you're just seeming to come off as more confused.
    I never said anything close to what you're saying about this.

    I'm saying I'm confused why you're wasting so much time if you don't care that much, or that you're fine with.
    Its weird right?

    In one argument with some posters wow is p2w. With another its not. Its pretty clear what the poster you are arguing with are doing.

    Weird right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jester Joe View Post
    Ironically, you're just seeming to come off as more confused. I never said anything close to what you're saying about this. I'm saying I'm confused why you're wasting so much time if you don't care that much, or that you're fine with.
    The same reason why you keep wasting time? Because you want to. Just because I am fine with some forms of pay to win doesn't mean I'm fine with people using it incorrectly. Why do you think a person can't be fine with pay to win when labeling things as pay to win? You keep trying to imply that I am doing something bad by discussing the same as anyone else. Weird right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doffen View Post
    In one argument with some posters wow is p2w. With another its not. Its pretty clear what the poster you are arguing with are doing.
    And what am I doing? I have been consistent on what I consider pay to win to be this entire time. Paying real money for an advantage. In this thread I have said WoW is pay to win with level boosts and that it is not with the token. That hasn't changed.
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  4. #1604
    Quote Originally Posted by rhorle View Post
    You mean gold. Paying for the power with cash is against the terms of service and is why the Gallywix boosting community got shut down by Blizzard.
    Yea, gold. Power.

    Same with lvl58/lvl50 boosts. Both bought with cash, both provide power.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rhorle View Post
    To be fair wealth redistribution can impact inflation but I don't think we have really seen such effects with the token. Prices of things seem to be impacted more on game design rather then token.
    If such trades were cause of inflation, then it would've already happened as there is a lot on the auction selling for more than the token price.
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  6. #1606
    Shadowlands is the worst expansion of all time. I don't think there's a feasibly way to ignore this reality anymore. I've never seen the perception of an expansion degrade so fast within half a year timeframe.

    It doesn't just come down to the content anymore, but the state of the community and this absolute festering state of boosting and botting within the playerbase. People frequently shit on WoD because it had only 1 content patch and Garrisons were crap but the game was actually fairly playable and tight gameplay-wise compared to this nightmare of an expansion.

    Devs have lost the plot. At this point I have 0 faith in the game being good again and fully expect 10.0 to be another flop because:

    1.) The devs are very clearly out-of-touch.
    2.) The game is not a change or two away from being good. It's 100+ changes away.

  7. #1607
    Quote Originally Posted by Edward Wu View Post
    Shadowlands is the worst expansion of all time. I don't think there's a feasibly way to ignore this reality anymore. I've never seen the perception of an expansion degrade so fast within half a year timeframe.

    It doesn't just come down to the content anymore, but the state of the community and this absolute festering state of boosting and botting within the playerbase. People frequently shit on WoD because it had only 1 content patch and Garrisons were crap but the game was actually fairly playable and tight gameplay-wise compared to this nightmare of an expansion.

    Devs have lost the plot. At this point I have 0 faith in the game being good again and fully expect 10.0 to be another flop because:

    1.) The devs are very clearly out-of-touch.
    2.) The game is not a change or two away from being good. It's 100+ changes away.
    I'd say BFA was worse because of how terrible corruptions were and how many different things you had to do if you wanted to min-max.
    But yeah, Shadowlands degraded QUICKLY. It felt great at the start but the time gating of Covenants and Soul-Ash gating of Torghast just feels terrible.

    I'm playing TBC Classic right now. If I want to improve my character, I can log in and do something to do that. And farming attunements actually feels better than any farming I have to do in retail, because the rep comes pretty naturally while doing dungeons for XP and gear (or other attunements).

    There is no "that's that for this week" that you get after a single day of playing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edward Wu View Post
    Shadowlands is the worst expansion of all time. I don't think there's a feasibly way to ignore this reality anymore. I've never seen the perception of an expansion degrade so fast within half a year timeframe.

    It doesn't just come down to the content anymore, but the state of the community and this absolute festering state of boosting and botting within the playerbase. People frequently shit on WoD because it had only 1 content patch and Garrisons were crap but the game was actually fairly playable and tight gameplay-wise compared to this nightmare of an expansion.

    Devs have lost the plot. At this point I have 0 faith in the game being good again and fully expect 10.0 to be another flop because:

    1.) The devs are very clearly out-of-touch.
    2.) The game is not a change or two away from being good. It's 100+ changes away.
    Was this meant to be in a different thread, or?
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  9. #1609
    Quote Originally Posted by Gehco View Post
    Was this meant to be in a different thread, or?
    I guess it could maybe fit better in another thread or two on the front page but I think it's adjacent to the discussion here and I really didn't want to make a new thread just to crap out my (at this point) generic thoughts.

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    Yes, big time pay to win, for everyone except the top tier players.

  11. #1611
    It is in a sense. You can skip leveling and buy gold. Its not as blatent as some cash shops, but there are p2w elements.

  12. #1612
    Quote Originally Posted by Gehco View Post
    That is why, about 70 pages or so ago, that people started using 'indirect P2W'.
    I find it a positive change. Means that, by discussion, people are actually zoning in on the concept and giving it a name that people can generally agree with.

    "P2W" is definitely a giant umbrella, with multiple shades of severity - and it's probably why the topic is so divisive.

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    Right now, very much so.
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  14. #1614
    Quote Originally Posted by lockybalboa View Post
    Right now, very much so.
    What do you think the main difference is that makes it "very much so" right now, but not previously?
    Quote Originally Posted by Kyanion View Post
    In no way are you entitled to the 'complete' game when you buy it, because DLC/cosmetics and so on are there for companies to make more money
    Quote Originally Posted by rhorle View Post
    Others, including myself, are saying that they only exist because Blizzard needed to create things so they could monetize it.

  15. #1615
    Quote Originally Posted by arkanon View Post
    What do you think the main difference is that makes it "very much so" right now, but not previously?
    Just open up your lfg and take a look at your trade chat provided you're not on a dead server? With the introduction with M+ and a greater emphasis on scores in recent years the demand for such carries have increased as well
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    Quote Originally Posted by lockybalboa View Post
    Just open up your lfg and take a look at your trade chat provided you're not on a dead server? With the introduction with M+ and a greater emphasis on scores in recent years the demand for such carries have increased as well
    Uhh... 91 pages but gonna ask once again(no one answered, I have my doubts whether you will either)
    1. They are carries, which means you are boosted aka no need to contribute at all, or it’s a minimal contribution. You can get people to play any game for you. For example, super mario, street fighter, cs, tetris etcetc.
    2. They are services made by players, which means you can also offer something else than gold and money, but for example bodyparts. For example, I will sell you glad title for a specific body part, but it does not make this game ”sell body part to win”.
    3. If I pay these carries/boosters more gold/money to not boost you, you do not gain the boost, which kind of doesnt make sense if it’s pay to win.
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  17. #1617
    https://www.wowhead.com/news/sanctum...Y68hOR-ERfkDaw
    Oh no! Blizzard is reducing the number of slots for BoE items in 9.1!
    Are they going mad? Don't they understand that WoW is P2W? How are they going to sell more tokens now?!
    The drama commences!

    Yeah just joking. Or not, I don't know. One thing's for sure - this doesn't bode well for BoE cash shop in the nearest future. What a shame, really.
    EDIT: And if that's not enough, they also think about decreasing BoEs drop rates. Seriously, Blizz?!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stardrift View Post
    I'm not saying anything needs to be removed. I'm just stating the facts.

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    Still paying cash for currency to buy power. Sorry

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    ...Still paying cash for currency to buy power.

    Why deny this fact? I'm not even saying it's a bad thing. Nor am I saying something needs to be done about it lol
    You arent buying POWER you are buying currency. Then you have to rely on players willing to do things for you for that currency. It is 100% the playerbase giving you "power" not Blizzard. Thus it does not meet the criteria. And you dont have to buy tokens to get gold. In fact for people who really want to make money, tokens are one of the most inefficient and expensive routes to do so. You can make substantially more money in game then buying tokens.

  20. #1620
    Quote Originally Posted by Gehco View Post
    But they take gold because you made a trade, gold for game-time. The gold is not magically added or removed, calling it inflation is like calling trade inflation.
    True it is trade infaltion, but its infaltion never the less caused by an outside influence namely the token.

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