Right. Because the cash shop in Retail didn’t evolve at all over the years … no slippery slope there, huh?
But that’s not the point. The point is that allowing players to skip parts of the game they don’t like is bad. MMORPGs are complicated; there’s a push and pull between pleasure and pain. Wiping on the boss sucks … but if they boss is super easy and you never wipe then you don’t feel like you did anything.
Allowing people to pay to skip parts they don’t like is bad. Don’t like something in the game? Play another game or push through it like everyone else does.
The slope is slippery, but it doesn’t even matter. Some of us don’t want this MMO community…uh…altered…by people who want to pay to skip gameplay benefits. Simple as that. Yes, there are a host of problems on the slippery slope that follows from that, but paying to skip gameplay is the source of all of them. It’s the line that shouldn’t be crossed.
You’re missing point entirely. The vanillas zones where in the original game and are still there now. They ARE part of the Burning Crusade experience. New content was added to those zones. But whatever. You want to be intentionally obtuse, go for it.
So is leveling 1-58 but that didn’t stop Blizzard from selling it and it didn’t stop retail whales from purchasing it.
And many of the same players absolutely would purchase a 12 hour invincibility potion or a Blubbery Gladiator title if the options were available. Without thinking twice.
Hilariously ironic coming from a mage when mage boosts were a thing for all of Classic. A large chunk of the player base wants to skip things like leveling, and will do whatever it takes to accomplish this. Blizzard selling boosts just streamlines what many players were doing anyway.
Hey, the devs are just thinking of you guys who seem intent on maintaining Vanilla relevancy despite actual Vanilla servers being available one room over
I agree with you. I’ve never sold a boost. I certainly wouldn’t argue that the community and culture of classic was ideal before Blizzard started charging people not to play.
And one forum over is Retail, which is where it sounds like you should be playing since you don’t seem to have a clue as to what ruined that game to begin with.
oh do enlighten me. because I’m going to guess you think it’s boosts, when level boosts weren’t added until long after subs started dropping in early Cataclysm
The fact is the gaming culture that existed in 2004-2007 is mostly gone. You can re-create the game itself, but you can’t re-create how people decide to play the game.
