Do you think sell groups are hurting end game community?

[GenJoe]

This. While you have some valid points there, the overall tone of your message was rather aggressive.

I didn't mean to come off as aggressive... Indifferent was more what I was going for.

The very idea that someone can "WIN" in an MMO is just.. hard to take in.. Not only that, I'd consider something pay to win if there's a persistent advantage paying grants you.
Sure, buying a clear does give some people a slight edge, but one thing SE did right is that the no amount of gear in this game will replace the necessary skill check for the harder contents.

If people were paying to get a full set of pvp gear, or paying for a zeta weapon without having to grind, etc.. I think I'd see a problem with that model. But buying a clear is simply just that, buying a clear.
Some may do it for the story, some may do it for progression into FCOB, some may even do it for gear farming. Why are people so worried about that though? It's a hollow victory at best, let them waste their gil however they want to, it's none of our businesses.

Also, all of you looking into my profile as if I need to have some credentials before I can voice my opinion gives me the very impression that some of you may be the type that WOULD stand afk in Mor Dhona to show off your newly acquired gear.
Not to mention I would never use the no lifer argument, that's one of the lowest forms of argument one can use on a gaming forum..

Since so many of you think having a character beyond a lv 50 combat class is such a pre-requisite for making a legit argument yo, here we go. Can I have an opinion now?

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EDIT: At limit apparently, so this will likely be my last retort for a while.

You do realize that in video games, when a player does not have an end game goal given to them by a game company, they will create their own ways to feel like they've accomplished what satisfies them instead? That is why a person can feel they have "WON" an MMO, by simply achieving the goals they set for themselves. If that goal is beating FCoB then that's their ending. Perhaps you are taking this rather literally.

I do understand that, but that's a personal goal. I do not care if there are other 4 star crafters around and they just happened to buy their way through it. Nor should you care when there are people walking around with T13 clears that they just bought. Just because someone bought their way to reach a goal, that shouldn't cheapen your own achievement that you got legitimately.

Unless of course, you're looking for external approval from your achievements, then I can understand why it would irk you that there are "imposters" out and about.
For me, I just don't care about what other people think of my "achievements" in this game.. All of it is internal. If I think I've done something well, that's good enough. I don't need a title hanging over my head to show the rest of the World, nor does it bother me that some other people just paid their way to get to where I am.

P.S. Read your own signature!! That's where I'm coming from.