That’s fair. Granted, I just personally feel like we don’t need to settle for a lesser of the two evils because Blizzard are the ones in control in this situation. They don’t have to put us in a situation where we only have 2 bad options.
But I see what you’re saying and I respect your opinion. I’m glad that there are some people here who can take part in this controversial discussion without just dismissing others or intentionally trying to derail threads.
Except that them being two bad options is a personal opinion. I would love refer a friend because it means my shamans flat out levels faster.
Thanks for keeping the slow people in the loop, captain obvious. xD
yes you would. 
It’s not. Not to mention the reworking of back-end systems to implement this with the way subs and what not work now would be expensive.
I would not mind having my exclusive RAF Zhevra mount again. That would be sweet 
It beats the two-seater rocket mount.
Soul still uses his on his videos and I cringe!! I can’t stand it!!
No account for personal taste, eh?
What I really miss is my heavy metal giant flying bat, but that was a store mount. 
Oh you done gone and did it!!!
Someone get some popcorn!!
People have always been angry at us metal heads. I remember when I was a teenager my dad yelling at me “What do you want to do with your life!??”
I said “I wanna rock”. They say I woke up from my coma about 3 weeks later.
There is nothing “more busted” about RAF than a literal instant 58 boost.
I’d much prefer RAF, a million times over.
I appreciate the post because I didn’t even remember this being a thing. So, it sounds like a false dilemma is being made here. That we have to choose one or the other. I’m not a believer in #nochanges but I also think boosts are destructive game design. Why couldn’t we do away with both boosting and raf as they would fundamentally undermine the core design and philosophy of classic and classic tbc and why they exist in the first place.
Why not both?
What? I played the entirety of TBC and recruit-a-friend was NEVER relevant during the expansion. It was mostly a catchup mechanism intended for people to get into Wrath, like the sunwell dailies flooded the economy with gold and the world with epic flying mounts.
Being for RAF would be akin to being for Sunwell dailies on release day.
I agree with the OP.
If why you don’t want the boosts is “I don’t like boosts”, then you should not want RAF either, and that’s pretty consistent. RAF could be used as a boost; time spent levelling the other characters did not teach you to play the boosted one. It recieved no time played at all.
But if your argument is that the boost is not like TBC, RAF is a perfect counterargument. If your argument is it’s going to be exploited by bots, RAF was 100% better for bots and they did that. At least the boost makes it unattractive because you will get more gold out of buying more accounts instead of using a boost.
You don’t have to be pro-RAF if you’re against boosts. But if the reason you say you’re anti-boost is because a boost wasn’t in TBC… well you are wrong.
And while I can respect saying RAF or a boost would be fine, so long as they waited til the sunwell patch… sunwell patch is still very clearly TBC. It’s not a wrath feature.
I don’t know about this, on one hand I love giving Blizzard money, but on the other hand I don’t have any friends to recruit and the money isn’t coming directly from me.
I’m left unsure on how to proceed with consuming product.
You call people who complain about it unreasonably dense but let’s look at something similar for a comparison.
Ok so a 58 boost probably saves you around 100+hrs based on tbc leveling experience requirement.
What other things can save you 100 hours of time outside of boosting. If you guessed buying gold you’d probably be right. Now I’d argue that those in favor of boosting are probably also in favor of buying gold. They are both measures to skip content, one being farming and the other leveling.
Player A swipes a credit card and gets something player B took 100+ hours to do instantly. Player A swipes a credit card on shady website and gets something Player B spent dozens if not hundreds of hours herbing, mining, gathering, or playing auction house tycoon.
Long story short you’re devaluing the efforts of other players the same way gold selling websites do.
Doubt it, as it existed in TBC.
Technically true, but a bit of a stretch as it was only active for 100 days in the tail end of TBC.
The release post I could find is dated 2008-08-05 (August 05, 2008)
Wrath of the Lich King launched 2008-11-13 (November 13, 2008).
You got a free 30. It couldn’t bo past half their level.
I did this back in the day a few times. With friends, and with a second account of my own.
Not quite.
It could go to 60, but you only got a boost of 1 level for every 2 levels the recruit gained.
If you levelled 2 60s on the recruit account, you could raise a third on the recruiter account to 60.
You also couldn’t boost the toon past the level of the toon granting the level, but it’s a seperate requirement.