Elon was pretending to be top 7 player in a brand new competitive game.
I don’t buy gold but I disagree with you. Buying gold will save you time and will buy you a few pieces in a 20 year old game that’s been done time and time again.
The reason people were mad at Elon wasn't that he was boosting, it was that he was lying about being a top 10 in the world god gamer and using his boosted account as some kind of bonafides. Gold buying is cancer, but Joe Shmoe the Dad Gamer who buys enough gold for consumes so he can raid with his boys after a 50 hour work week is not lying to millions of people about how much of god gamer he is. OP just chose to use Elon as a comparison because he knew it would trigger the most amount of people lol
Joe schmoe dad gamer buying gold is the reason everything is so inflated and THUS the reason everyone buys gold. So yea, he is the problem. Just thought you should know.
I didn't say it wasn't a problem, and that's not even what we're talking about. We're talking about the difference between Elon boosting and gold buying.
If you play trade league, it's basically the exact type of competitive PvE that you experience in WoW via logs. Sure you're not directly fighting your opponents, but that doesn't mean there isn't a competition happening
yeah i mean parsing takes skill/shows knowledge, grinding gold just takes a lot of time.
why spend 5 hours grinding the same amount of gold i could get from one hour of my paycheck.
Getting gold is a skill too and requires knowledge of professions and the market. It also takes a whole lot less time if you're good at it. Unfortunately cheating that part of the game is common.
I would just like to clarify I don’t buy gold, but this is just wrong unless you’re trying to game AH for profit. I made damn near 20 gold today just killing shit lol it doesn’t require skill to pick up shit and vendor it off lol
Yeah but the AH and crafting are generally the easiest way to make gold if you know what to do, that's what I'm saying. Even farming the right stuff at the right place and time requires some knowledge of the game. But yeah you can also just play and get lucky.
it’s just different, i don’t have fun grinding gold in wow, i have fun pushing raids and dungeons, i don’t buy gold but can see how people would. if you can lower the fun to not fun activity ratio.
elons thing is totally different he paid somebody to max his account so he can…. flex online? i don’t see how it’s the same situation at all
Haha you can buy gold cheaper than a wow sub but people are too poor to do it…. Suuuuuure there buddy keep justifying swiping that credit card for parses
Yes they both don’t matter. If you’re having fun who cares, I don’t want to spend 100 hours farming gold, I don’t have time like I did when I was 13 playing wrath
If you don't want to spend the time to get something, do you really deserve to have it?
I don't buy gold, but yea sure what do I care
Life is too short to get hung up on and engage with aspects of something you do not particularly like or enjoy if there is an easy way to skip that aspect.
For many, they enjoy raiding in classic or doing bgs or whatever in particular they want to do. I personally enjoy leveling and professions and fishing and stuff, but I understand not everyone likes those aspects of wow. WoW is a very large game, and I don't see the benefit in forcing people who only enjoy a part of it to engage with the whole of it.
I'd rather people buy gold and engage with the aspects of the game that they enjoy vs having classic be overall less populated
Now the caveat to this is that I always have and always will despise botting, and I am fully aware the 2 are intrinsically linked. However, botting is 99% a blizzard problem. I am not going to blame players for the botting epidemic.
Why not blame the company claiming to be fighting the bots? Who’s claimed to ban gold buyers? Like I don’t get buying gold, but I blame Blizzard first and foremost for their inaction, practically saying it’s allowed just don’t talk about it.
Until they start actually doing quick turn around permabans nothing will ever change. If its just a slap on the wrist every time then its not a real punishment. And many people have been buying gold for years and never even received a warning.
You’re going to get a lot of resistance about this idea, but I wanted to you to know that in a world of cheaters and convenience and moral vacancy, I agree with you.
If it means not having to waste what little time I have to play, so someone can have something that has no effect on other players? I don’t care if someone “deserves” to have BoEs or a faster mount. It’s a 20 year old MMO. Now buying carries and GDKPs are dumb
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u/Dkteaux 6d ago
Elon was pretending to be top 7 player in a brand new competitive game.
I don’t buy gold but I disagree with you. Buying gold will save you time and will buy you a few pieces in a 20 year old game that’s been done time and time again.