one is a borderline exploit that’s only allowed because of blizzard’s hands-off approach to their so called “museum piece”, the other is an in game cash shop item condoned by the devs
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with BC’s heavier focus on endgame? yes
you’re horribly misunderstanding my stance. if you enjoy leveling then more power to you, I support that attitude. what I don’t support is the attitude of “no boosts should not exist because everyone should HAVE TO level from scratch no exceptions!”
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Seems to me that the level of botting is server-specific. I know people who don’t see much of them, but I also know people that see them everywhere. Not saying your opinion isn’t valid, but it could be based off isolation.
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And if there was teleportation you wouldn’t use it right?
The problem here, is all boosting does is hurt people’s ego. It has no negative effects on the game itself. Having MORE players is NEVER a bad thing no matter how they got there. Whether thats buying boosts from Blizzard, going to a website buying Gold and paying a BOT to level their character, or having someone quit and sell their max level to them…It doesn’t matter - all it means is MORE people playing the game and thats a GOOD thing.
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Why does that not surprise me lol.
TBC isn’t going anywhere.
Nothing is stopping you, or anyone else, from leveling up and getting there when you get there.
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the option really is “have played classic and bought enough gold to pay for boosts for your alts” or “start today and buy enough gold to play paladins to boost your alts” because the private server meta has made darn sure that most people aren’t gonna level normally. and blizz wants in on that money instead of it going to gold farmers. there’s nothing wrong with that. but to pretend that isn’t the options that most people face is ridiculous. you act like people will just be able to find group after group at low levels for vanilla content in tbc classic. which won’t happen. the boosts are there to even the playing field. and people who cheated and bought gold get to keep their gold. they just don’t get to ruin the experience for others who want to play tbc eventually.
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Then go play CLASSIC
This is TBC Classic, which they have said many times over is not the same thing.
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the solution to that problem is fresh servers, something some people have been asking for
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Right, content which becomes irrelevant when outlands is released.
Hence not a problem.
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Way to be as hyperbolic as you possibly can be.
Just make a character and start playing, level up like a normal person.
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How will that stop people from offering to boost other players or buying gold to pay for a boost?
i am not against 1 set of new servers that do not progress through the classic phases that are static and do not just get rereleased over and over again. the time has come to stop catering to people who cheated and didn’t pay for years.
It doesn’t become irrelevant at all.
This isn’t retail. The rest of the game doesn’t just fizzle out of existence every 4 months. The content is entirely relevant, in many different ways.
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you’re right, there isn’t, because I’ll have the help of a completely optional boost that will enable me to get to the content I want to do faster, instead of having to slog through the content that I find painfully unfun that would likely cause me to not want to bother and go spend my time elsewhere otherwise
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ummm yeah, your post makes no sense. “it’s for players who want a way to quickly join their friends in Outland”. The only reason i could ever need a reason to quickly join my friends is if I was re rolling to paladin on the horde (which I will be) and I am immediately at a disadvantage and can’t play with my friends because of it. Literally any class you are allowing the boost on could be leveled right now. People aren’t rolling paladin (or shaman on the alliance) because they want to experience the new race starting zones-they are just forced into it because only the new races have those classes in TBC. I could care less about seeing the Belf starting zone for the millionth time. I just want to jump into new content on a class that has never been available to me until TBC.
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It’s not the players job to stop this, it’s Blizzards.
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Both are classic… TBC is a progression of Classic. This isn’t a NEW game catered to a whole new demographic… I am not sure where you are getting this idea.
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Good news, Blizzard is gonna cut into that by offering boosts themselves…
Im thrilled too!
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i have. i had a few alliance characters i leveled. that doesn’t change the fact that you private server people are in two camps. 1. let me mass exploit and keep my stuff and fudge everyone else and 2. the ones that want F R E S H 34875934754 times and don’t actually want to play with everyone else. and they’ll buy gold each time to make sure they’re far ahead of everyone else, they just want to do it more often.
Like I said, I don’t really care about boosts. I would prefer they weren’t there, but it just isn’t any skin of my teeth. What i took issue with is my interpretation of one of your sentences.