This is very true. It makes me laugh that people talk about the “TBC levelling experience”, as though getting halfway through Eastern Plaguelands and saying “Well, get f***ed Argent Dawn, I’m going to Outland” is a defining experience.
Or acting like players not doing it are somehow cheating or doing everyone else a disservice when nearly every other player couldn’t care less.
Their not questing through STV doesn’t have any effect on whether or not I invite them to a dungeon.
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It’s the playerbase, man.
They don’t care if the boosts are a good or bad thing for the game; they just know that “retail” uses boosts and retail isn’t “cool”, so boosts aren’t “cool.”
We’re playing Hipster WoW.
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That’s another good specious argument. I levelled for the first time during TBC and I was still terrible at my class by the time I hit Outland.
Largely because I didn’t get to learn how to play in a group, as nobody was running high level dungeons in Azeroth!
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haha. i’m still terrible and have been playing since vanilla lol
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People whine about bad players in Classic but argue that players leveling through Classic will for some reason be better players for it. Or that they have to, “earn” the right to play TBC.
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I don’t care about who’s good or bad at WoW. It’s not like it’s some critical life skill to master it.
I’m concerned about the quality of the product once we allow boosts.
would like to see Blizzard release a graph of people who complained about boosting but then bought one when it came out. haha
Probably the same quality of product when you level your character 1-60, buy gold online at a webpage and then go off and buy some items in a paid raid.
Just now you can buy the character to go with the items you buy, it’s really no different to what is already going on?
It may or may not include jewel crafting. I can see an argument either way.
Actually, they require groups of an appropriate level, which is a neat design. The players choose to get help from someone way above the appropriate level. It’s not Blizzard’s fault.
Account transfers opened up as well in BC.
While I thought TBC would be launched with dignity, I’m not surprised. This is nothing new under J. Allen Bracktivision. I’ll continue to play Vanilla as I promised myself if TBC had micro-transactions, and I’ll explore TBC through other, more dignified means, if you know what I mean.
Please stop calling this company “Blizzard”. Blizzard died many years ago. The company has been reduced to a Wretched Zombie in Death Knell. Call them Activision, because they kill everything they touch.
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Would you prefer them to sell TBC to you again for $60? Because that’s something that happened in the Classic version; you had to buy TBC expansion. This is a way to get more people ready for TBC who had no interest in classic and they make money off it.
Look at it that way…
I find this funny because those “Other more dignified means” have way more micro-transactions than Blizzards version does.
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So instead of wanting for them to address gold buying, you want them to go further along that path?
One of the problems with boosting that I don’t believe has been mentioned, is that all the people boosting will mean less people leveling together in the 1-60 world. This creates a compounding situation where there are fewer people to group with while leveling. This in-turn leads more players to just boost, and eventually demand additional boosting services. This is why during original TBC Refer A Friend was used. It at least did not completely destroy leveling.
But RAF can not be monetized can it? This is why the decision was made, and for no other reason.
Boosts are not ‘Classic’. Classic is about the journey just as much as it is about the destination. Noone is being denied the opportunity to play TBC Classic without Boosts. To those who just don’t get it I have to say You thought you did, but you didn’t.
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quite a lot. and a lot of people are going to be leveling draenei and blood elves anyway, which cannot be boosted
the worlds are already empty because people are just paying mages to boost now, and would pay paladins to boost instead in TBC. a store boost isn’t going to change that, especially when it’s only one per account
Vanilla was. TBC started to have a much larger focus on endgame
you’re absolutely right, people who don’t want to boost can still play TBC, and people who do want to boost can also play TBC. everybody wins
You can’t separate TBC from classic, it’s the relaunch of world of warcraft, first through vanilla and now it progresses into TBC, it’s still classic.
I cannot believe the number of window lickers sitting in a forum literally titled “THE BURNING CRUSADE CLASSIC DISCUSSION”
Trying to say “it’s not classic it’s tbc”
Just give over, you just want what you want and you will say anything to protect it.
I’ve read through this thread and another more recent and I have never seen such repulsive behavior. You would think people who were against boosts were stealing peoples waifus to see the disgusting “discourse” i’ve witnessed.
The entire conversation around this reeks of the type of juvenile insult throwing and word twisting nonsense that gives adults headaches.
We know you want boosts, but the name calling and fit throwing doesn’t bring you any closer to proving your point.
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That’s exactly what Blizzard is doing. Whether you like it or not
ah yes, throwing a fit and immediately resorting to insults because you aren’t getting your way. you certainly are showing what kind of adult you claim to be
I don’t think you read what I said
I agree, the attitude of people like you is absolutely appalling
your babyrage has blinding you so much that you don’t even realize you’re complaining about the very thing you yourself are doing