I’m just curious as to how many of the boosts are actually new players. I had 4 lvl 60s prior I just didn’t feel like doing the grind again, so how many of you just boosted a new main or maybe onto a new server?
I don’t know about other servers but I sure see ALOT of newly boosted 58s running around in cities and looking for 55ish dungeon runs in Arugal.
I’ll be boosting a mage because I’ve already leveled too many mages.
How many boosted characters are brand new players? Basically zero is my guess.
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I boosted a druid because I wanted to switch servers and play something different. Leveling in p1 really burnt me out for the rest of classic. If they didn’t offer boosts I would just play my lock still just to avoid leveling again.
I think the boost is a nice hero feature for returning players? No worse than a Death Knight…
Death Knights were worse. They actually did break the game.
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All the people I know that boosted a toon have several 60’s already… Bigglesworth is full of them crushing dungeons for gear/xp right now.
Today, yes. But wait a couple weeks.
If some players want to play TBC but do NOT want to play Classic Vanilla, they will wait 2 weeks, and start once TBC goes live. They won’t start now.
I assume that is Blizzard’s main purpose in offering the boost – to add players that don’t want to play Vanilla. The boost worked in the past: it added lots of subs to the game. Why wouldn’t it work with TBC?
I agree that there will be some of that. Curious people might give it a go. But if you look at the barrier for entry - the cost of a boost and a sub - I think people who previously had no interest in the game are going to have to ask themselves if it’s worth playing a re-release of an old game with that kind of buy-in. In my opinion the boosts were squarely aimed at existing players because they’re the only ones who really see a value in it. Still, I’ll welcome all the fresh bodies we can get. We all benefit from an increased interest in the game.
If you study both Retail and Classic and the players that frequent both forums you start to figure it out fast…
Large groups of casual type players that do not mind grinding out long quests and love to spam PVP and group finder. Those players got screwed hard by SL. They were loyal too. The game became unplayable to them.
Years ago a very large swath of players who felt disenfranchised by WoW left Retail to forge a better way in classic.
Now both sets of players must co-exist in TBC…
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Been playing WoW since it came out with a few breaks here and there. Leveled 2 characters to 60 in original vanilla and a few others on pservers. In all honesty, Vanilla is not my favorite version of WoW. I prefer TBC, WotLK, and MoP. So, I passed on Classic but am all in for TBC so I re-subbed for the long enjoyable ride through Outlands and hopefully into Northrend down the road.
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i boosted a character, i’ve been playing on and off sense vanilly
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