They are true. You DO have to buy the most expensive version of the game to play with others during early access who did as well. Also, since early access is locked behind a paywall, there will be less people playing it during that time than if there was no early access. You are objectively and utterly false.
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Honestly this 2004 mentality of seeing WOW gets tiring and becomes highly overrated. The original time was fantastic, everything was new, everything was cool but eventually that fades and all that is left is good memories and nostalgia.
I played this game long enough that if I ever tried playing it like I played in 2008 I would quit the next day and never look back. The socializing and the game being new made everything fantastic, it certainly was not as much the game itself.
Only reason I enjoyed hardcore was the hardcore aspect of it, take that off and you very quickly see how tedious Vanilla was.
Blizzard has a lot of problems but Early Access is not by far the biggest for they’re setting up themselves up for the need to succeed. If this Early Access has too much maintenance, lag and bug it will cause far more trouble for Blizzard than it’s worth.
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The epic edition is $40 more than the base edition. That is not just a “few extra bucks.” I could get it with my Blizzard balance from WoW tokens if I wanted to and wouldn’t cost me a dime out of my own pocket. This isn’t about whether or not I can afford it. Its about exactly what I said, which is pay walling early access to a new WoW expansion. This is absolutely wrong and I hope they never do it again.
And the re-release of classic WoW that had more people playing it than I have ever seen in an online game before. The desire and demand for classic WoW is and always will be there.
The vast majority of Classic WoW players do not feel this way.
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OP clearly already had a beef with retail and is just using EA as a smoke screen for w/e reason.
EA will have no lasting impact on the xpac, and you can just say what you don’t really like.
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This is false. The moment 3 day early access for the Epic edition was announced for this expansion it received a lot of criticism. You can see posts here on this forum going back to that time talking about it negatively. As I said, I was excited for TWW, especially since Chris Metzen is back. This however is a deal breaker for me. Trying to persuade players to buy Epic editions by offering earlier access to the same game people paid for is just wrong. This is a terrible trend. I won’t buy it now or ever.
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At the expense of about 2 less lunches as McDs I will be enjoying my early access. Honestly, it is three freaking days. It’s not like we are going to get some huge advantage, you can’t do any of the raids or any instances higher than normal. After a week no one will even remember it.
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Im willing to wager that it is pretty minimum. I’ve bought every Collectors Edition/Epic Edition since TBC and EA was not the selling point for this one just like all the ones previously.
And to OP - WoW hasn’t been the same since Cata, so its not really anything new. You also only look at it from a negative view point. Although it does offer positives. Launch is always plagued with server problems because or the sheer amount of people logging it at once and then questing was a pain fighting for mobs. If you enjoyed that, cool. Most people didn’t. Splitting it into 2 seperate launches has its benefits, whether you accept it or not.
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It’s not absolutely wrong.
You’re imposing your own feelings onto others while holding up a pitch fork over 3 days and a whopping, omg, $40 increase for early access and other goodies that we all have known for a year. Quit being a follower and do what You want, as an adult, not what everyone else thinks you should do and enjoy the darn game.
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The fact that you consider something so trivial a ‘deal breaker’ is honestly pretty sad.
The vast majority of players are not going to be using early access, so you’ll still get the same feel as every other expansion launch. Worried about spoilers? Well most of the content has already been datamined and spoiled, easy to ignore too.
Think of it this way, those people who jump into early access (and full disclosure I will be one of them) are going to be jumping into the expansion first, which means if there are game breaking bugs to be encountered when the expansion content goes live? We’ll be inconvenienced by them and not you, and Blizzard will be able to quickly fix the big issues to make sure your experience as a non-early access player is smoother.
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Counterpoint: spreading the load out across multiple days should make launch day smoother, thus increasing the hype.
Shoving entire servers of players into the same location at the same time has proven to be a poor experience for everyone time and again. If the server doesn’t crash outright, something else breaks and then nobody can progress until Blizzard fixes it, which causes its own uproar. Early access spreads that load out as players with EA will already be doing their own thing in Khaz Algar when everyone else joins in, which means the servers are more likely to survive the strain of a new expansion launch.
It also means that should something break during early access, Blizzard has a few days to fix it before the expansion’s “proper” launch. Put the pitchfork away; this is a good thing for people who chose not to buy the epic edition because of the launch day implications. All early access does is let people get to 80 faster and get geared up in normal dungeons, anyway. Heroic and mythic don’t unlock until launch day, and neither does profession knowledge. You’re not going to be behind the curve just because you didn’t drop some extra money on an expansion.
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because your post reads more like a blog than anything inviting discussion?
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The concept of “Early Access” is stupid and I wish it would go away. However…
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People put way too much emphasis on the value of a few extra days that won’t matter in even the short term, especially when in all likelihood, those extra days are just going to be a soft launch used for last second testing and patching. Just look at how the pre-patch is going right now where every day something new is broken.
Whatever, you do you. I can’t tell anyone what their breaking point is, but I will say that this is a really strange and unusually pointless hill to die on.
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I get where you’re coming from but keep in mind that are a lot of people out there like myself who don’t particularly like the idea of paying for early access (it honestly feels icky), bought the Super Duper Omega Deluxe OMG Edition for the Tender and the mogs and the game time and the Hearthstone effect, etc, not the promise of early access.
Having the option to play TWW a few days before “the masses” is just a neat little perk.
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We have 0 advantage with 3 days early access, so… Stop crying?
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ok so I guess that means you are quitting.
Who cares? I guarantee two of those tree days are gonna be down anyways. I got the 90 dollar edition and I’m not even gonna do early access. I wanted the toys and tenders. It’s three days. The world is not ending. Life will still happen.
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You do realise that $90 bought other things aswell right???.
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That’s… why … they have different WoWs now…?
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That’s nice, good luck on whatever game you choose lol
I always buy the version of the wow expansion that comes with the extra goodies. The price per time spent playing makes wow it one of the cheapest forms of entertainment out there.
This time it comes with some game time, pets, tmog a mount etc and early access. What does it matter? It’s not $90 for only the early access.
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