Exclude the twinks from normal que if this change goes through

[Whitecrow-khaz-modan (Whitecrow)]

@Tarc-fenris

from the initial announcement

What initial announcement?
This is the first, and only, time a Blue post on the topic has ever been made.

Fansites didn’t even pick up that this was part of 8.2 until after it was marked as a release candidate. Personally, I have no idea at what stage this change was put onto the PTR. But they sure as heck haven’t discussed it before in any official capacity.

Unless your referring to this completely unadulterated fest.

@Ythisens

Since the launch of Battle for Azeroth, we’ve noticed an increasing trend of players turning off XP gains at level 110 in order to repeatedly powerlevel other players’ characters at an excessive rate without increasing their own level. The intention of the XP-off feature is to allow alternate characters to stay in lower-level PvP brackets or relive lower-level content, not to purposefully halt progression in content relevant to the current expansion.

To curb this behavior, we plan to implement a hotfix in the coming days that will disable the ability to turn off XP gains on characters level 110 or higher. Additionally, any character of that level who already has XP disabled will find it automatically re-enabled the next time they log in.

That they quickly walked back because it was extremely obvious to everyone involved how hair brained the idea was.

@Ythisens

We’ve been thinking about this plan more today and agree that there are probably better ways to approach this issue. We’re going to hold off on this for the time being while we discuss.

The Dev team is far to busy playing “Ant farm” with their players instead of designing fun and engaging content for them to experience.

They’ve done this far too much for my liking lately. Changes made, not for the sake of improving the game, but with the aim of modify player behavior to be more in line with how the Dev team wants players to behave.

Their basically telling people with this change. “You’re playing the game wrong.”
Even when these players aren’t breaking any rules and have done nothing outside the bounds of what the designers created.

Remember the Pandaren, Doubleagent?
Leveled to max without leaving the Pandaren starting zone and without choosing a faction using Gathering.

That panda has been hitting max level while remaining neutral for years now.
Other players have copied them and attempted to do the same.
Should we be expecting some change to address this unintended method of leveling as well? Some change to correct these players, “playing the game wrong”?

My bet’s that they don’t care because its a rather slow method of leveling and doesn’t make the 120 boost that will appear in the shop within the next ~6 months less appealing to purchase.

Give a twinked DH gold that amounts to less than $20 or spend $60 on a Blizz provided boost… This just seems more and more like Blizz trying to clear the way for their next boost. Making this change, now, early enough so that players forget this whole series of events by the time it shows up in the shop. Because most have the attention span of a goldfish.