That’s why I tend to think Blizzard will allow them. A lot of people prefer Vanilla and would like to keep using the level 60 gear they grinded on Era. But a lot of those same people would still like to check out TBC and play it for a while. I expect that those players would buy a lot of boosted 58s, which would mean a lot of extra boost sales for Blizzard.
Has a boost been confirmed for TBC Anni? Or is this assuming they do it like last time?
Blizzard likely looks forward to selling the anniversary crowd lots of gold. Why would they allow a captive gold hungry audience to escape?
58 boots make no sense either because boosters charge gold and blizz intends to sell them the gold. If they were to allow escapees then they would then miss out on selling all those gold sales.
Blizzard is in the business of making money, they also know the time it takes on average to go from 1 - 60 on a subscription for the average player is more money than a single character transfer or boost for that matter. They know they have you so they will now extract the /played from you because its the most money for them.
Anniversary Vanilla → to Vanilla Era transfers have nothing to do with Blizzard Paid Character Boosts.
Obviously Blizzard should not sell Paid Character Boosts on Anniversary World of Warcraft, regardless of the expansion. Paid Character Boosts only help RMT, Pay to Win, cheating players bot and farm gold easier. Additionally Blizzard needs to abolish and ban the sale of Character Leveling Boosting Services for Gold.
The Real Classic Playerbase absolutely needs to demand transfers from Anniversary Vanilla → Vanilla Era. As they need to demand Anniversary TBC → TBC Era.
While I’m not opposed to Anni toons transferring to Era (minus Anni qol changes), it’s been clear from the beginning of Anni that the characters rolled there are progressing to TBC. There’s been no announcement otherwise.
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Its not transfers its cloning. That is what they originally did the first time around and what most people are hoping they do this time around.
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Blizzard canceled cloning, there was a big post about that a couple years ago with dosens of posters begging for clones to return.
I would have purchased a clone but that did not get to happen because blizzars would not budge. The reason is very simple, they make more money if the active players who will actually play the game simply re-roll new characters.
The average player takes 4 months of subscription time to get from 1 to 60, and if they do make it to 60 then its almost certain they will raid and that is easily another 4 months of subs for good AQ / Naxxramas loot.
The fresh character is more profit than a clone; just that simple.
What, that is not why they cancelled it. Its because they didn’t want to hold on to aging character information. That less and less people will interact with very quickly.
Subscription is all of WoW. If you want to go down this logic you can easily argue the opposite by saying the cloning process increases the chance they will also play TBC which had WoW tokens which makes them a lot more money then your sub does. While also getting an influx up front.
A lot of people paid for the clone servers who then never even interacted with Era and went on to play a different version of WoW.
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Hmm interesting, if that were so then how come there are so few on Era that are clones? I know maybe 3?
The rest of population are all fresh to “era”.
The character sheet data is microscopic, the myth that it costs anything worth speaking of to keep that data is a lie and you should feel bad for falling for that if you believe that lie. They stopped clones and transfers not long after because its profitable to extract the subscription time.
I understand you’re heavily in favor of clones and transfers but its unlikely that they will return considering that blizzard is cutting back more and more on these services that have demonstrated them selves to be a loss and not a gain in profit margins.
If they were big money makers then they would keep them on Era, but they don’t. Ever wonder why that is? Because it makes them more money when you re-roll.
Would I clone one of my old characters if they were ever to come back? Sure, but I know that’s never going to be coming back because I am realistic.
I’ll take the token over a 58 boost
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This is the most likely outcome for anniversary because they know the amount of gold buying that is going on… Its blizzard, they want in on that action.
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I’d rather shell out $$ to blizzard for less gold then risk my 20 year account with g2g.
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Blizzard will sell a boost 100%, the boost gets people who didnt wanna do era again and puts them right into TBC, the version they wanted to play.
If someone wants to start TBC they dont wanna level in the old world for it.
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I was just going to buy 4 x 58 boosts but now I’ve decided I need 6 x 58’s. If blizzard doesn’t offer paid boosts, what am I supposed to do? Manually level from 1? LOOOL
edit; oh wait, wasn’t it limited to one boost per account last time? That’d suck
You understand that all (okay, maybe not all, but 90%) of boosters doing boosts to sell that gold? If they will have nobody to sell this gold to (if most people will be buying gold for tokens from blizzard), there will be simply no boosts. In reality, ofcourse, there will be boosts, but their price will be balanced to RMT gold rates, and if you are buying gold with tokens, boosts will be extremely expencive, so most people will buy boosts for RMT gold.
Fwiw, Blizzard really dropped the ball when they offered the clone service. IIRC, when it was first available it was nearly as expensive as a level 60 boost. I want to think they were charging $30 or more per character cloned. I think after some backlash they lowered the price, but by then the damage was done.
All my rl friends on era are non clones. My wife and another friend regret not cloning, even at the super greedy price. 2 of my 4 characters are clones from 2019 Arcanite Reaper.
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Asked my friends if they are clones or not and in chat. I know 4 clones total. 3 of them on mankirk and 1 on whitemane that I play with when hes not on alts that are fresh characters. I dont know the actual numbers but I am guessing maybe 0.1% are clones? Its certainly super low.
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Doesn’t that just prove my argument xD.
It makes them 0 extra money if the player is already staying in the WoW Sphere. Era WoW is their least profitable model as there is no way for them to extract extra money from you.
Its still a service they have to upkeep. The storage itself is minute but the development time and keeping it up to date with changes is not. They got the majority of the money they were going to make with it then shut it down. Its really that simple.
All 4 of my 60’s are clones on whitemane.
None of my characters in Era are clones … they are all from 2019 and just stayed there … remember that this is a possibility too when asking people 