Because the game should be separate form my real life. If I can just swipe my credit card to win... it takes the joy out of it for me. I can do that in real li

Because the game should be separate form my real life. If I can just swipe my credit card to win... it takes the joy out of it for me. I can do that in real life enough already. We aren't talking about "a lot" of money to your average adult. It's not impressive for someone to spend a few hundred bucks -- but it really is impressive if someone earns 300k gold all by themselves in the game. I don't want to play a game where paying real money is even an option. What you have in the game should represent your skill, talent, knowledge, and social skills / communication skills. Not your willingness to spend real money on a video game. Back when the game was real, I didn't know anyone who bought gold. I'm sure they existed. But in Classic, the very first PUG I joined sent a link to a Discord where they were like, "Hey buy gold, everyone is doing it!" And it just felt perverted to me. I get a lot of gaming is based on real money now... and that's a huge reason I don't play many video games any more.