Please take your fomo and put it where the sun doesn’t shine. The amount of progress is practically nonexistent and it will be -super- easy to catch up considering the bulk of what you can achieve in EA can be done in a little over a day.
The people that it care and that it matters will easily catch up tomorrow. The ones that are hyper casual or don’t even play anymore don’t have anything to catch up with *anyway( and should honestly just be ignored.
What we keep telling the whiners—The people who bought epic edition, were already going to buy epic edition. If you want something to whine about, complain that the base game is 50 dollars. That is what drives the price of heroic and epic editions up.
In terms of actual value, you paid between 7 and 25 dollars extra for heroic and epic edition. The gametime you need anyways and the base game you need anyways so painting it as some awful first class 100 dollar thing is disingenuous.
I agree with everything the OP has said here. I bought the Epic edition as soon as it became available simply because I always do. I love WoW, and as a long-time player, I believe in supporting the game and the Devs in any way I can. I didn’t even consider early access, in fact, I don’t remember even seeing it on the list when I bought the bundle.
Fast forward to the launch of Early Access and for the first time since I started my guild in 2009 we were divided. Some of us could play The War Within, while others, less fortunate financially, had to stay behind, and for me that felt awful! I went to the new zone but haven’t played on any further. There was no excitement, no sense of sharing the new story, and my guildies who have played, have had to stay quiet in chat to avoid spoiling the experience for our mates. It doesn’t matter how quickly they will catch up when they can play, it’s about inclusivity, and the feeling of being excluded from a shared experience.
I will never again purchase an expansion that includes early access. That’s not how I choose to support World of Warcraft moving forward.
“to be clear the server lagging has nothing to do with the specs of the PC lol” I was talking about server lagging (you can’t even play wow on a vista machine)
I think another really raw part of not having Early Access is that we got one day to play the expansion directly into maintenance Tuesday.
The value-adds are functionally useless. I effectively just got spoiled (by none other than Blizz socials themselves, no less) because I didn’t want to fork over cash.
People complain about everything. Its about the same price as top tier expansions of old, now with early access. If you dont like it, dont buy it. 3 days isnt going to “divide a community”… its a video game.
I get it, and I like to complain- honestly I really do. But im just not seeing the problem here. I paid for it, im happy with the cost/value ratio… It was under 30 bucks for me to get ahead of the pack for once, when im usually way behind and I take forever to level. Which makes me want to say as an aside… I loved the MOP REMIX!!! I leveled so many alts and im excited to play this game again for the first time since vanilla.
Agreed, been playing since 2005, staring to feel ugh of late with this game. This game has got me through some rough times. Pay to win for Microsoft I guess
The thing is, it did divide our community. I had EA but stayed behind because some of my friends couldn’t afford it. And when they did get into TWW they were greeted by jeering players slinging comments about being plebs and povs. It completely spoiled the launch for a lot of people.
None of that is factual. It’s an arbitrary value that was decided by a corporation. It’s not a physical item. You cannot resell it. It has no value.
You keep using the word ‘factual’ as if it makes anything you say more concrete, but I don’t think you understand what a ‘fact’ is. Are they charging more for Early Access? Yes, that is a fact.
Do these digital goods have value? No. Again, you fail to understand what ‘value’ means. What something is “worth” can be subjective, but that does directly correlate to value. You’re conflating two completely different ideas while using the word ‘factual’.
This. People also seem to forget that leveling was a BREEZE for alts with how scaling worked. We were leveling alts to 80’s in just a few hours of casual play.
People who didn’t get early access? Well, now you get a much slower experience - regardless of that being the intended experience or not, they’ve missed out entirely on what was an easy way to level 5-6 alts in a matter of 2-3 days of dad hours.
