Please don’t. If a new player feels daunted by 120 levels, then maybe they aren’t aware they got a free level boost when buying the game? or a level boost when a next expansion comes out? And you really think that a number makes the game less daunting?
There’s 7 expansions of content to do. There’s how many zones? Let alone planets?
Also you removed all those portals and are now making people waste more time afk-ing on flying birds and bats in order to make the world seem “bigger”.
Sounds to me if you don’t want your game to be daunting to new players, you shouldn’t also be doing stupid things to make the game seem even bigger, and thus more daunting?
Level squish wouldn’t be able to be done right. I can’t believe people want it. I can’t believe it’s even on the table. Yet another thing to remove or take away from the game instead of adding to, expanding upon, and enhancing what we already have.
I’ve expressed that I don’t like the idea of a level squish, but I’m not the only person that plays the game. I’m curious if there are actually people that want a level squish, and if so… why? What do you think it could benefit us from? Do you realize the negative consequences to that kind of change? Why why why?
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I would absolutely loathe it. I know a lot of people couldn’t care less, but I don’t like mechanics that make the game feel like it’s going backwards. The number squish was annoying enough.
Grinding for years and years to go LOWER in level and for the numbers to get SMALLER feels so wrong on so many levels.
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Anything Blizzard can do, to take things away from players, like levels they have already earned, they are all for it. To them its about taking things away. Plus this dev team does NOT have the knowledge, skills or abilities to do a level squish properly. Chances are they will do it anyway and jack the entire game up because they can and want to.
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It’s just something they are discussing. However they probably discuss a lot of things that never happen.
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This would be the change that would make me quit for good. Stat squish is one thing, but a level squish is too much imo.
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They just threw it out there to get our reaction/feedback. I don’t have faith this could be done without massive, game-breaking problems. But if done right, it could make the leveling experience a lot better.
I created this character at the end of 2007, never took a boost on her. I’m emotionally invested in the 120 levels that I have played. A level squish is a game breaker.
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i 100% am for a level squish as long as i can farm legacy content like i do now
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Exactly. I’ve earned these levels, don’t take em away.
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Yall are crazy. A level squish is a fantastic idea. However, knowing this dev team they will certainly mess it up. Levels are completely meaningless when their is 120 of them the same way that artifact power became meaningless when you needed 100 million of it. 120 levels is intimidating to new players and anything that turns new players away from the game should be changed or at least re-immagined. (see the absurd unlock requirements for the new allied races)
A even bigger problem is that the world is just dead and empty (not the expansion the world) it would be more beneficial to re-imagine the leveling experience and have another cataclysm type event that puts more work into the “world of warcraft” and not the expansion of warcraft to bring more life and interaction to the game and put effort towards making leveling a more enjoyable experience.
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I don’t like the idea either. I have now 18 chars at 120 and 10 more between 110-115. The only boosts I used, were the ones that came free with the game. I like big numbers, what can I say. It will be a huge disapointment if they take them away.
You guys that are in favour of a level squish always say “Levels are completely meaningless”. If they are meaningless to you, why ask for a change?
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They dont care, people are waiting/paying for Classic.
All the stickies are Classic.
I have my own leveling ideas HERE, but essentially, I think if they do this ‘squish’ it will cause terrible bugs. That is a massive change and they can improve the experience in much easier ways.
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