Blizzard should just offer more boosts and exp buffs in the cash shops.
Do you think these people are going to magically have a desire to level alts by normal means???
OK, I think I got my responses all jumbles. Lets see:
- Boosting AFK in dungeons is dead. No value left in it.
- People who used to be AFK while being boosted will likely not join the general game population. They’ll either stick to their mains and only raidlog, or quit.
- The 50% exp. increase wont have an impact on the above point.
- Addicts will pay for the Blizzard boost insted of buying gold for the ingame boosts. Its all about cost / benefit.
- The option to tag mobs and let a higher level player kill them for you still exists, not sure how efficient it is but it might be the new thing. Time will tell.
- There is a tiny niche minority of people who were already going to “level an alt for Wrath” who’ll benefit from the change. But that doesnt add many people, if any, that weren’t going to do it anyways because of a new xpac launch.
- A few people will drop the game until pre-patch. No point levelling an alt now when it’ll be way faster soon. No point to even raidlog for obsolete gear anymore, maybe just to feed on whale gold and stockpile it for wrath.
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How else are they?
You assume.
Another assumption.
You get one per account.
You don’t play the game do you? Do you know how xp earned from a tag mob works? They fixed this in the original TBC launch.
You assume. A lot.
Actually hilarious you keep telling people they assume these (arguably very valid) points) yet you’re literally doing the same thing - assuming
Yes they are assumptions.
But mine have logic.
Do you really think people will boost now that it takes 1000x as long?
Gold inflation is going to be out of control for months on Wrath. People have stockpiled so much due to boosting/strat cheesing that there’s massive piles of gold which will make gold worthless until it vanishes.
No boosting is dead, no one is arguing that.
We’re saying that this doesn’t make the people that were getting boosted suddenly want to play the game and get out into the world. If anything it pisses those people off and they likely won’t make alts now at all
You assume. A lot.
I extrapolate from observed experience. Boosties rarely go from paid-to-58 to questing, they zip straight to SP spamming “WTB Boost” all the way. Its not “I paid for a quickstart, lets see the world!”, its “boost then boost then boost”.
Most people also don’t go from SP/SL boosts into Heroics, finding a guild or wanting to be part of the community. They go “WTB Karazhan ticket run, have x000 gold to spend” or if richer “Pure buyer WTB BT run, wanna pre-buy glaives”. Because that’s the kind of person they are.
Do you really think people will boost now that it takes 1000x as long?
Nobody is saying that. The thing is, they can always just quit. Stop coping, nothing blizzard does can force people to actually play when they dont want to.
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What other option do they have besides just quitting?
Okay? Does the community really care for players who just spend money to level? Not probably in the Classic core values, right?
They don’t, that’s my point. My friend is quitting, I’m likely quitting, etc. this is from actual observed behavior not assumptions
You’re quitting because you can’t AFK a game?
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Can’t afk the boring part of the game, yeah.
Find a new hobby then?
Games are a waste of time.
Games are a waste of time.
As the saying goes, time you enjoyed wasting isn’t wasted at all. Unenjoyable games are wastes of time, for sure.
For the record, I too am against boosting. I find it idiotic to burn through the game you are paying for, but for some people thats not the case, they’re all about the pvp or the raidlog or wtv. Blizzard cant mandate they enjoy what they dont.
Are some too hooked and will cave to pressure and do alts the normal way? Sure. But those are addicts, they are a tiny niche who hate the game but cant leave because its their sole dopamine hit. The XP boost makes no difference, they’ll still find it a grind but it’ll last slightly less for them.
I saw a suggestion elsewhere about getting a permanent 100% XP boost when you get a max. level character. That could work, but does little for newer players. I think old content xp requirements should’ve been squished for good, just so newcomers can still have a decent leveling experience but catch up much faster. Quickly levelling out of old world zones is great, in that it gives you replayability for your first or second alt in changing your leveling path and exploring those areas you didnt touch because you outleveled them too quickly.
Games are a waste of time.
How you waste your time is fine, but acting like they’re something more isn’t true.
Games are a waste of time.
How you waste your time is fine, but acting like they’re something more isn’t true.
Such a sad outlook. Entertainment is a core part of a healthy mental state, look into it. Be it from video games or other leisure activities, it needs to be present for a balanced life.
If you wanna go edgy tryhard “if its not profitable its a waste” act the part by all means, but it doesnt make it less sad.
Games can be fun too. But in the end they are just a past time.
So is chronic forum posting