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.
It's not a reach. You can only barely label it a reach because GDKP's are banned and we totally ignore all the epics you can purchase off the AH. Gold-making is an integral part of the grind that classic wow provides and paying real world money to skip it is fundamentally cheating. It doesn't help that a lot of big things are tied to it too. Epic mount, Lionheart helm, Edgeguards just to name a few.
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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.