The other part of the joke is that people on the blizzard forums (at least for Diablo II, back when I played it) tend to buy a lot of their gear using IRL currency, and use that fact to hilariously troll the frustrated people who can’t afford/don’t believe in buying gear.

Ok, here’s the deal:

Person Type 1: Buy a level’d character w/perfect gear. Dominate pVp forever. Essentially be a griefer. It’s not actually a fun way to play the game because you don’t really play it. You just go to PVP games and kill the fuck out of everyone but a lot of teenagers and bitter nerds get a kick out of this.

Person Type 2: Play the game as it was intended, spend months farming, and trading, and doing ba’al runs, and screwing up on your build and starting over. Arguably this is more fun, and give you more of a sense of eCommplishment. But then you PVP and person 1 kills the hell out of the character you spent so much work on building.

Person 1 meets person 2 on the forums, giant flame wars erupt (flame wars aren’t really moderated on Blizzard). Hilarity ensues for Person Type 1, which is basically the only viable type of blizzard gamer who has a lot of time to chill on the forums, because person type 2 spends all their time farming and being bitter.