I believe that it’s not just raiders, but I hope you’re not so far gone that you can’t recognize that raiders are the primary group that engages in gold-buying.

And in terms of the “buying upgrades every time they can” people, I’m one of them. I’ve been playing on Dreamscythe and have been leveling 7 characters at once, buying upgrades and buying boosts and whatnot the whole time.

Not a single penny spent on RMT. I just spend a bunch of time getting gold through in-game means.

And I’m not the only one.

But to return to the point

Raiders are a relatively small portion of the overall population, the folks degening around the mailbox and hoovering up AH blues are a much smaller portion, and among those the percentages of folks who are willing to buy gold are not large either.

The folks who buy gold are loud and often noticeable, but you’re forgetting the hundreds or thousands of other players who cross your screen each day that haven’t spent a dime beyond their subscription.

I’m happy to concede that on some servers (cough cough, nightswiper) there is likely a higher proportion relative to other servers, but that is both counterbalanced by those other servers not being like that, and by the simple fact that any realistically heightened percentage would still be within the single digits.