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.
Yeah I get that OP is just trying to talk shit to gold buyers but paying someone to play the game enough for you to be in the top 100 on the leaderboards and then pretending to the entire world to have done it all yourself is leagues more insane than buying gold.
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u/Zeyz 10d 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.