That philosophy is what led to retail,
catering to all kinds of players and letting them skip the content they dont like killed the game for many of us.
Now a days retail is more similar to a lobby game where people stay 90% of their time in oribos queuing for pve or pvp content.
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Which you can’t boost…
Pika face
1.12 is authentic Vanilla. You might not consider it ideal. I don’t either. But it was still a viable option. Boosts, on the other hand, never existed in TBC. So I don’t know how you link the two.
That’s an opinion… not one necessarily fixed in reality.
(LFG was introduced in wrath - and popularity hit its peak).
Boosts were introduced in WoD (years after decline) and actually saw a temporary, albeit not maintainable, spike in predicted membership
There is a whole lot to unpack there.
First, there are a lot of different opinions on what led to the retail we have today.
Catering to all kinds of players can and has in the past been done to great success.
What ruined the game, in some peoples opinions was not boosts, it was the loss of community, features like LFD/LFR might has been a major factor there, not boosts.
The main point is again, you are taking a single perspective, yours, and assuming everyone feels that same way.
Blizzard should be giving people of color and women free boosts. With the wealth disparity these days, paid services are systematic racism.
You are implying that LFG and the game being popular are correlated, when you have 6 more expansions after Wrath with LFG where the game was losing players in a consistent manner
No. I’m not. I’m saying you can’t make any correlation.
You’re the one that is actually making those claims.
They are paying real life money for gold, that gold will be injected into your server, the more gold there is in the economy, the less it’s worth.
I will give you an example.
currently i do DM tribute runs to farm gold, i make 70-80g an hour if all goes well.
While I’m doing this there are other people that swipe their credit cards and buy 10000 gold in one go from bots, that gold then it’s inyected into my server making the 70-80g i make worth even less. There is so much gold in the current servers that it’s value is going down, and the ones who suffer are the ones who play this game without cheating.
Yes the WB situation is super healthy and should be promoted…
You just violated another economic principle…
Correlation != causation.
You are really bad at this for someone who supposedly works in economics 
Never said there was a correlation between those 2 things, I was just correcting you when you were implying one existed.
And Please stop trying to get my attention, your basic economic knowledge based on an afternoon of reading wikipedia may seem legit to some people but i’m getting tired of it.
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Lol. Surely if my opinion is derived from just “a little bit of Wikipedia reading” you should be able to easily detest and counter it, correct?
So far you haven’t. Saying “you’re wrong” when any economic text book says otherwise is a little bit wonky.
And you did imply causation by stating that those features caused WoW’s decline, further highlighted by the fact that you pointed out WoW was in decline while those things existed.
If you were not trying to make the causation/correlation claim, none of your most recent comments would have been made.
I did and btw Most of your opinions dont make sense.
Please show me proof of this, because i think you don’t even read my posts before replying.
All i said was that you stating LFG was in wrath and wrath was popular is not a valid connection because LFG was also present in all the following expansions where popularity decrease.
None of your opinions make sense.
Especially when you cite an economic principle… and go on to violate that economic principle in the same sentence.
In regards to the causation claim, in your own words…
You alone made that causation argument.
This here is where i was trying to explain that the connection you made between wrath being succesful and LFG dont make sense.
This is completly true, that philosophy is what killed the game for me and many of my friends. How is my personal opinion in what killed the game for me wrong?
Do you know more about my taste in videogames than me?
Quoting things out of context is lame btw.
jeez, this thread is still on-going? why can’t we just let people play the game how they want to play it. why what someone else does, whether it be boosts or not, should be detrimental to your own experience.
many of us refers to the WoW community at large, not just the opinion of you and your friends.
Hence my comment.
My apologies if that was not the intent with your original quoted post above.
But at the end of the day, it’s clear that people don’t really want the games for what they were. They want their own version of the game. So in that regard, as sad as I think it is that TBC and Classic won’t get the dignity they deserve, I might as well join the “me” train that everyone else is riding. So whatever happens happens. If things are retuned to be “tedious” and time consuming, great I’ll play. If not, I won’t.
I got got bored of Classic by the very fact that everything felt so watered down. Last time i did scholo strath was pre-nerf 10 man. UBRS - 15 man. What I saw in Classic was a travesty.
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Yes, some people are taking it way too hard that I’m starting to be concerned with their well being. I hope Blizzard keep an eye on the forums and maybe recommend them to pay a visit to a shrink.,
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