Hard to lose a “war” that is already won, we’ve buried the dead, occupied your cities, changed your culture, and integrated most of your society.
And by that I mean Blizzard already said we’re getting boosts so that’s that.
Cope.
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Hahaha, no. You wish but no. Blizzard will not care about madseason, I don’t care about madseason, and I’d argue that most people don’t care what he thinks on the subject. It’s the opinion of only one person trying to cater to his audience.
Not even close. The only way video votes can gage reaction is if it has mostly down votes. No one is going to get massively down voted on this subject whether they agree or disagree with it. It’s not a massively polarizing topic. To take the lack of down votes as an overall agreement that most people do not want the boost is ridiculous.
I have no problem with the boost but I would not dislike the guys video over it. But I’m also not someone that generally watches madseason. His general viewers will almost always upvote his videos unless he says something negative on an extremely controversial subject. Like if he supported Trump and started talking about how the election was stolen. That is a good way to get downvotes. Not supporting boosts will not get him downvoted. Awful logic.
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Or… most people that actually enjoy WoW are too busy playing then watching random youtube personalities… shrug
I would call that part of the community the minority.
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In my opinion, the boost [1] has been proven for 6 years to [2] add new players to the game. It isn’t new. And [3] it isn’t for existing players – it adds NEW players to the game.
Blizzard does not listen to existing WoW players about how to attract new business. None of us are experts on that.
Blizzard does listen existing WoW players about things they know about – the concerns of existing WoW players. So Blizzard may make changes to the boost for existing players.
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This is exactly the point behind the boost. It’s not intended for current players, but potential future players.
Anti-boosters just don’t get that Blizzard wants new players, and many potential players don’t enjoy the long slog.
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Why would you need to argue for a change that’s already implemented?
This reads like a 4chan Q post. Now yuo see…
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… Psyche! Blizzard will take the money and then the angry mob will return to privste servers. At which point blizzard will wonder why people aren’t playing on classic servers.
Nobody cares, delete your account and stop posting.
I mean people clearly care. It destroys the RPG elements of the game.
it’s quite simple as to how many people are pro and anti boost off of rough estimation:
80% (the silent majority) will play whether the boost is in or not. They don’t care
10% really care about the boost and won’t play if it is not included
10% really care about the boost and won’t play if it is included
Now not caring isn’t being in support of the boost because they’d also be just the same if it wasn’t in. The only people this number supports the inclusion of the boost to is blizzard because it will 100% make them more money. I have said this from the beginning that the boost from blizz’ perspective is a clear win. It’s only a loss to the players.
You cannot make the argument that the boost will bring in more players because it will also lose you some too.
Those who won’t play because of boosts are in the extreme minority.
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I really hope they don’t. I like the boost and feel it’s a good idea. I’m sick of people whining about garbage when they are part of the same group that has messed up classic and will mess up TBC with their min-maxing, meta, world buff garbage while trying to take a moral stance against things. The game will be ruined by people’s attitude towards it, a boost does nothing to that. In fact I’d also like the WoW Token not because it’s a good idea but because it will let people compete with the robber barons that are going to kill the economy and make common items unbuyable for the masses to satisfy their own greed and ego.
The economy is already going to be ruined day one by letting people bring tens of thousands of gold into Outland. So what if the botters abuse the boost? They’re going to abuse things anyway. What’s the other argument? Leveling? Leveling SUCKS. It always has sucked. People don’t want to screw around in outdated content. Oh but new people won’t have anyone to play with? They already don’t thanks to dungeon boosting, but that’s okay right? Because why?
No, this is ridiculous and the arguments are just more incessant whining.
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Old blizzard gave the belfs to horde coz s korea was what they thought their primary market for wow and the players there love/loved pretty bad guys. I think the company has always been the same, just that we the players have somehow made this thing where theres an old and new blizzard. Blizzard has always been about making the most amount of money from making video games.
The same could be said about those who wouldn’t play without the boost. The vast majority will play EITHER WAY.
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This is a weird take, as the intention was purely for population because the Horde was massively underpopulated in comparison to the Alliance and their assumption was that a pretty race would fix it - and it did.
The dev team and leadership is almost entirely different than it used to be, and the corporatization of the company after the acquisition by Activision (and it’s a lie to say that Blizzard is autonomous) pushed many big names out.
Correct. Those are also an extreme minority.
However, many potential players are more likely to play if there’s a boost option so they can catch up to friends. Which is the entire point of the boost.
We already saw with Classic many players who didn’t want to level to 60 but wanted to play with friends.
How to prove such a claim? Retail has provided no evidence of such.
Did we? Because all I saw was an immensely successful product that was met with resounding praise. Only blizzard’s failure to maintain the game long term tainted it’s reputation.
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To us? Probably not, hard to track. But to Blizzard? It’s quite likely they have a lot more data.
Plus, retail leveling is wildly different than vanilla/TBC.
If all you saw was an immensely successful product that was met with resounding praise, you didn’t pay attention to anything at all.
But neither of us can say what reasons blizzard have behind the scenes for adding the boost. Imo, it comes down to 1 simple thing. People who don’t want the boost only make them 10 GBP a month whereas swapping them out for players who do want the boost make them 50 GBP (assuming boost is the same price as on retaiL) + 10 GBP a month. I don’t think any consideration has been given to the boosts impacts on the game or if they have, they’ve decided that those impacts are less important than the financial benefits.
I think if you saw anything but that it was YOU who didn’t pay attention.
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I think both of us are right regarding the belfs.
The large asian playerbase wanted a pretty horde race so they could also get their gfs to play so they added them to the horde for both our reasons.
Still they are chasing the $$$ there, nothing bad, just what (successful) corporations/businesses do.
I dont remember any big leadership names missing when many QoL and cash shop options were added to wow. 