Discount class boosts

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FFXIV has theirs for $25.
Swtor equivalent is about $20-25.
Then we come to blizzard and their $60 boosts!

There is little sense in this, blizzard. I love the company and the game but please lower them to like $30.

In swtor I bought 8 boosts, in ffxuv I bought 12.

I’d love to have 20 of them in wow, but I’m not going to even buy one for $60.
I’d buy 20 of them in the next year and you’d still make $600 from me but I won’t buy them at current price.

Discount them like others do and make it up in volume

PS - flame away, I’m making this thread in the miniscule chance a blue will see it and pass it on. I don’t have any intention of reading 100 haters opinions of why the price should stay high or not have them at all.

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Psst… it is on sale now for $39.99. If you buy the World of Warcraft Complete Collection in the online store. It comes with a boost. You’ll have two accounts through one Battlenet client. You use the boost on your main then cancel the sub on the 2nd one and poof, you have a 110 toon.

:cookie:

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Oooh ty I might do that

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Difference is that Blizzard actually doesn’t want people using boosts on a regular basis. They would prefer that people level normally (which is why Allied races are incentivized to level normally by giving them access to heritage armor that they can’t get if they boost) and boosts are considered to be the option for players that just really hate leveling in general, have already seen the content and don’t want to bother with it.

Those other games obviously have different philosophies when it comes to skipping the bulk of the game content.

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Blizz reeling in those whales…
What am I talking about? The whales are jumping in the boat!

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Lol.
No. Just No.
They want you to level allied races drom 20-120 to keep you playing for their metrics!
Chase that carrot. I mean tmog!

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So much wrong with this statement I’m not even going to bother, but honestly, if you’re going to claim that allied races are being leveled for metrics, the least you could do is get the level bracket correct. It’s 20 -120, not 1 - 120.

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Oh, i thought you made up something so that you could only boost a specific underappreciated class for a discounted price compared to the existing boost.

But it’s just a rant on how the boost is ‘too expensive’. :frowning:

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It’s simple its price that high because people buy it. Then you got some people that believe that its High because they don’t want people to buy it.
And play regularly.

Which in my opinion is BS. 1 toon boost of 60 bucks is 4 months worth subscription. They have enough people buying it at 60 so why change it I know I wouldn’t .

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Occasionally they do discount the services so kind of just have to take advantage of it then. I’ve only ever used boosts that have come with expansions personally. So never really paid for one.

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Fixed it! Ty!
That is still all it is. To keep you playing.
Why not just lock the mogs behind a quest chain then? If it’s not to make you play the entire leveling why lock it behind it?
It could have been faction rep gear, a quest chain, or even a random drop from a world boss.
Nope. Its locked behind the level grind…

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I think the opposite is true. Blizz wants people buying boosts because it makes them more money. They’re not trying to discourage us with a high price. They’re just charging the highest price they think people will pay.

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I doubt that is true. I doubt character boost is used enough to justify it as “more money”. Blizzard has expressed in the past that they prefer people to experience the content of the game. That’s pretty atypical nowadays.

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Oh you think FOTM class design is to encourage people to level more alts by hand? Lol

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I don’t know if there are statistics available, but I would bet that boosts are used at least half as often as leveling 1 - 110. Most of WoW’s playerbase is made up of working adults now. $60 to save yourself from a few weeks of content that you don’t want to do isn’t that outrageous.

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But that’s different from what you said in your last post, which is… “Blizz wants people buying boosts because it makes them more money.” That makes Blizzard sound malicious. What you say here, though, is a logical conclusion made by adults choosing how to spend their money. As an adult, I know I can make that decision but I don’t have any undeniable evidence from Blizzard that they offer character boosts solely because they want to make money.

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Found it!

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But the boat won’t float! :rainbow:

On the OP-- for $60 you get a lot with the boost. You get better than basic stater greens, along with a set of artifact weapons. You get flying that you don’t have to pay gold for and most of the FP’s already unlocked.

The only thing they should have left in was the free lvl 3 garrison. But the 110 boost no longer have it. :rainbow:

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We don’t have undeniable evidence for anything that Blizz does, but we can be pretty sure that their main goal as a corporation is to make money. If they were a non-profit entity I could see your point, but they’re a very large publicly traded corporation. Everything they sell has a very planned out profit margin.

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Does the boosting include the boosting of professionals?

Like LvL 100 boost, when used at LvL 60 gave professional bonuses.

With the LvL 100 boost used at LvL 60 gave
Cloth classes = tailoring + enchanting Maxed out
Leather/Mail classes = Skinning + leather work Maxed out
Plate Classes = Mining + BlackSmithing Maxed out
All maxed out until WOD level.

I’d like to level up all my alts one by one myself but I think at this rate, it’s gonna take more than 1 year…so I am very tempted now.
I just wish they explained more details with what comes with the boosting. If my LvL1 guy go learn Engineering + Alchemy, use the boost and he gets maxed out skills on those, it will be so nice.
Of course, professional skills will only be good upto Legion and I gotta level the skills from 1 for BFA but still there are things I like to craft using those.