If there was a voting system, i’d vote no for boost in classic BC.
My concern about boost: more ways added for people to skip leveling, less active low level community will be there, which will affect low lvl PvE and PVP. And Specifically twinking.
However, I believe the community is overreacting to Blizzard adding a 58 paid boost to the game. Below are my reasons:
There is no fresh server. Most classic players who are going to play BC will move 1 or more lvl 60 character to Outland. So the person who’ll buy a boost won’t really get ahead in any aspect.
It has a MAX limit of one per account.
It’s paid. And hopefully it will cost a lot, so it won’t happen that often.
Classic wow project makes profit out of it. For the inside fight in Blizzard between the Classic Project and Retail project, I absolutely prefer Classic to win. One of the measurements of success in a project is the revenue of the project. Boost is not an ideal way, but it is still a away to support the project and add profit, which doesn’t really break the game.
At what point do you accept that it’s not just about what you specifically want?
The logic behind 58 boosts is pretty obvious. It’s not aimed at people who played Classic. It’s aimed at people who plan on playing Classic TBC, and don’t want to spend the first 2 weeks leveling 1-58 while everyone else has fun in Outland.
i plan on leveling 2 priests in tbc: a draenei healing priest and a nelf shadow priest. i prefer to level my draenei on a fresh no boosts tbc server, and my nelf via the blizzard paid boost. considering i also have a 60 mage, another mage at level 32 and climbing, a lock, a druid, a 46 holy pally and a hunter, i dont think boosting my nelf shadow priest is gonna rob the community environment!!
I don’t think people are overreacting. it’s understandable to be suspicious of a boost in Classic content. However, it’s a ONE time boost. To level 58. No professions leveled up. A slow a** mount.
Guarantee there will be swarms of people leveling new toons anyway (belf/draenei, whatever) even after they’ve used up their one (paid) boost. We’ll see lots of people playing, having fun in the world, sticking around. Lots of people I know are coming back. We’re all going to have a great time.
Currently see a flood and easy route for bots and gold sellers to recoupe or get in also it wasn’t something in original game that changes some things and another thing is it can lead to more pay to win transactions that weren’t accessible at the time. Race changes pve to pvp server xfers. Faction changes.
One thing is the low level won’t really be killed because folks still will be flooding in dranei and blood elves because they at this time can’t boost them but good on blizzard for allowing thoose races accessible pre patch to start there journey from 1 to 60
the only convincing argument i’ve seen against it is if someone pays to boost 4 tailors on 4 separate accounts, they can crank out special cloths used for important pre-bis gear and dominate the market utterly, then just cancel the extra accounts when its no longer a hot ticket item, essentially a pay to win scheme
Ultimately, I don’t care about boosts. It’s a bad option that hurts and contradicts the genre of MMORPG but it is what it is.
The thing is, we classic players, pay the same subscription as retail players for a game that does not get development.
If the money we spent, including the one from the boosts and keeping our characters in both classic and TBC, was invested in more servers for less crowded and better enjoyable content and above all against bots, then yes I’d be totally fine with it.
But right now, we are paying for the retail development team and game which is also by the way is also swarmed by bots.
Ya now imagine the gold sellers and bots doing that in a sense an army of pay to win happens to over night. Flooding markets and and resource spawns and mobs and zones. It’s a chain reaction from hell…
If blizzard wants a cash grab that wouldn’t truely affect the community that much introduce buying the trading card mounts of that time.
it was probably one of the selling features to convince activision-blizzard to invest in classic in the first place, that the games would be low maintenance and not require artists/sound engineers/etc, only initial coders and bare minimum maintenance
tis why i want a fresh tbc server option with no boosts or transfers allowed, for my future draenei priest. then on a separate boosting server, i’ll boost a nelf shadow priest.
if you compare questing to questing maybe. this argument falls apart the moment you do anything you can’t auto queue for. there is no “challenge” at all in afk drinking after a couple of mobs. if there was, as a mage, you’re the most ez mode ever as a mage since you get your water for free.