I disagree, I think this is a reach. I get the sentiment but it’s not the same thing.
There’s RMT in PoE as well, you can buy currency just like you can in WoW. If that’s all Elon was doing I’d agree. But he’s doing that plus getting piloted by someone much better than him to appear to be a skilled/high level player.
The WoW equivalent would be buying gold + getting your character leveled to 60 by someone else, then having them get top tier parses for you as well or having them grind to R14 for you.
If you’re buying gold but still leveling yourself, raiding yourself, doing PVP yourself I have a hard time saying you’re doing the same thing as someone who is just not doing any of that themselves. You’re taking a shortcut, sure, but there’s levels to it in my opinion.
I think they're different points on the same spectrum. What Elon did is on a pretty extreme end of things, but they're both paying someone to play part of the game for you. Buying gold is paying for a much smaller aspect of the game than Elon basically having no idea how to play, but like, we're talking about the setting on the dial, not which dial we're turning, imho.
I think they're different points on the same spectrum.
I think this is the key reason for the disagreement in the comments, what spectrum is being discussed.
If the spectrum is just
paying someone to play part of the game for you
then agreed, however most discussion I've seen around Elon's stuff isn't that, it's the acting like he did it all himself and that his ability matches his rank. So the spectrum they are commenting on is more
claiming achievements and the skill that got them as your own even though someone else actually did it
which means buying gold wouldn't be related unless the person was also going around bragging about how much gold they have and how they earned it all themself. If Elon didn't try to claim it was his own work multiple times, I'm fairly certain most people just wouldn't give a shit.
The relevance of each spectrum to me at least is more clear when you remove money from both sides. If someone just got a lucky drop early and tossed it on the AH for a ton of gold, then used that to avoid having to play most of the game, is that still an issue for the first spectrum? Similarly, if someone was gifted an item for free from a friend, but then went around bragging about how many hours they spent grinding and how amazing they are based on having that item, is that not an issue just because no money was spent?
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u/Zeyz 6d ago
I disagree, I think this is a reach. I get the sentiment but it’s not the same thing.
There’s RMT in PoE as well, you can buy currency just like you can in WoW. If that’s all Elon was doing I’d agree. But he’s doing that plus getting piloted by someone much better than him to appear to be a skilled/high level player.
The WoW equivalent would be buying gold + getting your character leveled to 60 by someone else, then having them get top tier parses for you as well or having them grind to R14 for you.
If you’re buying gold but still leveling yourself, raiding yourself, doing PVP yourself I have a hard time saying you’re doing the same thing as someone who is just not doing any of that themselves. You’re taking a shortcut, sure, but there’s levels to it in my opinion.