the argument was made back when hourglass was added that with the restriction of 1 level per month it would take 100 months which is 8.3 YEARS to acquire a curse from just buying levels with doubloons. i doubt this game would even still be active at that point. so the ability to buy renown doesnt sound bad at all. but the arguement was made by the pvp crowd that levels should be earned. being able to buy levels would kill hourglass..... yea right. the 1 per month restriction makes buying levels almost useless. but lets someone grinds out 90 levels and they are just sick of the mode. ok well in 10 months time they could by their way to the 100 mark.
giving away renown via twitch drops really defeats any arguments anyone, Rare included, can make about not allowing them to be purchased via doubloons, similarly now with reapers having a pve quest and having 500 levels buying reaper levels seems to make sense. since doubloons are still a mostly useless currency for those who have never stopped playing give them something to spend them on.
