Please show me where they said they were going to give you high level dungeon equivalent blues. I am seeing Videos from a month or so ago that shows the boosted toons with the exact same greens they have now. The only difference I see is they changed what kind of bags you get.
But honestly, if you’re paying for the boost for the gear then why bother? The whole point of the boost was to avoid the long haul of leveling. 58-60 is a cake wake prepatch and your gear is replaced by just running 54-60 level dungeons. Which is what people who didn’t boost did anyways.
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Brought to you by the company who monetized classic within an expansion making a complete 180 about the whole point of what Classic was about.
What did you expect from them?
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Nope. Rationalizing Blizzard’s bait and switch is. And that’s exactly what Blizzard did. Look up the definition of bait and switch. Then look up shill.
That is an opinion and not fact. I have yet to find more than one or two actual in game people with an anti boost issue. As the vast majority do dungeon boosts, it isnt like they really have the whole “on priciple” leg to stand on, lol.
Except I don’t agree that it was a bait and switch. Before boosting I checked to see what gear boosts were being given, then based my decision off that. I got what I saw. How is that a bait and switch?
You couldn’t have typed this with a straight face. Level 58 dungeon blues are level 58 dungeon blues. They said, “dungeon blues.” These are not. Nor do they have the stats you would get from dungeon blues.
Words mean things. So does math. And these stats are not equivalent to dungeon blues.
But you do you and keep on shilling.
Im no lawyer but I dont see what law was broken. There is no law saying an advertiser cant change their advertisment afaik.
The OP heard or saw dungeon blues a million years ago, made a purchase based on that info yesterday…the info changed and he didnt verify what he was buying before he did.
What law was broken?
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I went from 58-60 on my boosted warlock yesterday. The gear is really quite pathetic, but I did not feel unbearably weak or anything. At 60 I got the bloodvine garb and I should be good to go for any 20mans with my guild.
It’s called bait and switch, they were offering something, the thing was not provided then they change their advertisement to match what was offered. It’s called misleading advertising and it’s very illegal.
There are laws against bait and switch, which is basically taking a customer’s money while promising one thing and then delivering another. I think it’s pointless to yammer about suing, though. I also think boosting was stupid. Doesn’t change the fact that Blizzard has been very dishonest - and not just about this.
The principle is in-game versus paid services are entirely different. It’s not rocket surgery, but you’re trying to argue that since the end result is the same the means don’t matter.
yeah the suing bit is dramatic, but it is illegal. But because it’s illegal it opens them up to government action if they have to field enough complaints from angry customers as has happened with Steam in both Europe and Australia their worthless ToS couldn’t help them against law breeches
I can’t believe you typed this without showing me where they said you will be getting dungeon blues with your boost to, at the very least, back up your point. I’m genuinely asking and you are just saying “Well they said”. Well, all I’ve been able to find online is forum speculation on what the gear was going to be like.
Just wanted to provide some information. A couple of weeks ago WoWHead posted up an article when the Dark Portal Pass Price was finally announced, " Burning Crusade Classic Dark Portal Pass and Character Boost Price is $39.99". This was before anyone bought the service. They quote Blizzard in that article that the boosted character would get a set of magic (green) quality gear. People discussed it in the comments so it wasn’t something edited in later. Hope this helps. Be well 
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So your point is that it is better to supply money to gold farmers than blizzard and that somehow makes it more principled? I don’t get it, but you do you.
Why people act like boosts are free?
It doesn’t matter what you think. There’s a legal definition and that’s what it is. A thing can’t be another simply because you don’t think it should be.
“The practice is considered unethical, and in many jurisdictions is illegal.”
FTR: bait and switch tactics are totally illegal.
In a real life you can’t advertise a lawnmower deal for $500, but only stock 10 so by the time most people come in you’re conveniently out of stock so you upsell them to a $1k mower. You get caught doing that and you will have a bad time. Thats different than supplying yourself with thousands of those $500 mowers and running out, but getting restock soon and a deal lasting through the month or whatever.
Suing talk will likely go nowhere though. I’m really not sure what protections a video game would have, if any, but considering this is all virtual you’d think they’d have less protection than actual retail stores.
It’s easy to find. Here’s the entire interview.
https://screenrant.com/wow-burning-crusade-classic-holly-longdale-patrick-dawson/
Prove who gave gold to gold farmers then we will talk.