Because level 1-58 is part of the game. I may be old school, but I believe that when someone reads a book, it’s best that they start at chapter 1 instead of chapter 58. And it’s best to watch the first movie before its sequel. It increases their overall enjoyment of the artwork, IMO, and I think allowing people to skip ahead harms their experience.
It also harms the experience of others who are leveling the intended way because it reduces the number of other players in those low level zones so there are fewer people for them to interact with and group up with for dungeons and elite quests.
For those wanting to catch up, leveling was already greatly sped up in TBC exactly for that reason, so a boost wasn’t necessary, IMO. It was added by modern Blizzard purely for cash.
As a rule of thumb, pay-to-win or pay-to-skip features are bad for games. Whenever possible, progression in games should be based upon merit and effort, because it makes everything accomplished feel more rewarding. Being able to skip to the rewards cheapens those rewards, for everyone.
I agree with you. It is a slippery slope - the player who boosted and is coming fresh into TBC ,without keeping the grind in mind, will want further QoL changes, or at least wonder why they are not present, and a few of those will eventually post complaints and yada yada until you have raid shadow legends wrapped in TBC paper
It takes away from the authenticated feel of how leveling was back then. Honestly, I don’t care if people boost or not. I think its bad, because it was released way too early and while not everyone will be able to purchase a boost, I think people feel betrayed and feel unfair. The whole point of going back to these days were to experience the game how it was. Obviously the experience lived up to that in certain areas and not so much other areas.
I’ve played WoW since Vanilla and I’m an altoholic. Trust me on this one: I’ve got 1-58 down pat. Zygor and AAP are amateurs.
Fleshing out your gameplay experience is not my job. Don’t care.
As you know – which you do know because Blizzard explicitly said this – the boost
was added to remove a barrier to entry for returning players.
Looks like it worked.
And what is it with this thing that Blizzard making money is evil. You sub, right? So…
P2W, yes. P2Skip… only if you’re a neckbeard that thinks the achievement of leveling naturally in game means anything other than you had fun doing it. It’s about having fun. Lots of people think leveling sucks. (I don’t, FWIW… I live to level.)
Your points haven’t convinced me that a one-time, per account boost is bad for the game.