Yes, they did, but there was quite a lot of content that would have been added earlier, including different zones for your Garrison, but much time was spent working out the bugs for the ability to fly once they had to add it in.
Hah, I wish. Actually I’m fairly poor. Been playing since 2004 and I have about 400k across all my characters.
I don’t think ive ever had more than 500-600k at any given time…and I don’t spend money on anything.
The way we have experienced this system is very different.
On hitting 60 there was 2 options: Right or Wrong.
This choice is not meaningful to me in anyway. The only thing this system has done is made making interesting choices more tedious. Changing my character to be more suited for the encounter I am about to face is something I find enjoyable. This system limits that and even punishes it in some cases.
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No, I never said this. I was merely pointing out that some people will go for “cookie cutter” regardless of whether it is locked behind something or a free talent. There was no negative or positive or anything else attached to it.
i spent more than that the last time i went on mog spree for my 4th tier alts. >_> though i am not actively playing rn and have like 200k gold plus 87593487593487598347593485 gold in mats/crafted stuff in my bank alts bags. -.-
I would give up soulshape in a heartbeat if I could get there Phial ability instead!
I think you are severely undervaluing them to be fair.
I was more meaning on general level, not your opinion specifically, but how people look at the choice. If that makes sense.
https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Powergaming
notice how it mentions board games etc. this stuff started waaaaaaaaaaaay before wow. lol
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its funny. I was acdtually super rich in classic/TBC. I went into TBC with like 5k gold, which at the time was completely unheard of (It may have helped I was the raid leader/guild leader of the top guild and we were the first guild to start selling BOE raid drops on the AH…our guild bank had like 40k gold going into TBC).
Was kinda nice cause we were able to buy all our tanks full sets of resist gear right out the gate for SSC
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Every game has limits. Every game has rules. The challenge is working with in the given system to create favorable conditions to win the game.
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Well I mean if exercise in futility is your jam then knock yourself out 
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There is no rip cord jimmy.
The whole idea of a ripcord kinda baffles me, so you have a feeling that a bunch of things will be poorly received so there’s a backup plan sitting there ready to go? Why not just make content that people will like and play because they’ll enjoy it as opposed to content they don’t like but feel compelled to grind through lol
Having a ripcord ready just tells me that you know what you’re doing is bad, but you want to see if you can get away with it.
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This is the most asinine reasoning I’ve ever seen.
Being shoehorned into a covenant like you currently are is about as un-diverse as you can get.
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5k going into tbc in this context i believe. most people though? obv bought chinese gold. 
Okay. There is a difference between a Challenge and Enforced Tedium.
They had already canceled that content long before it was anywhere near completion by the time we found out from reading an interview on an obscure website on a Friday before a long holiday weekend that flight had been permanently removed from old content and was never coming back.
In the next 2 weeks, subscriptions dropped off precipitously. Everybody who had been hanging on because the devs kept saying they hadn’t decided whether to bring back flight or not quit. Some of them were gone for multiple expansions. Some have never come back. It was a PR disaster for the game and a huge financial loss. Fourth of July weekend was when it all came down.
Oh, but it was an imaginary ripcord.
But what makes that choice right or wrong?
That is what I’m asking. Why was your choice the only choice you could make?
It absolutely doesn’t punish it. There is a difference between benefiting greatly and benefiting less. There is no covenant choice available that gives you a disadvantage against not having a covenant at all.
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I left classic after about 6 months. I had a character at 60 and others I couldn’t get inspired to finish leveling. My friend stopped playing because waiting for mana, and I stopped too.
Later I went back and was chatting in trade chat with some randoms. I mentioned that a factor was the fact that it was so slow and tedious to grind gold, and lots of sources had been nerfed.
People were aghast. “You’re a tank. Weren’t you charging people to tank their dungeons???”
You do realise the “ripcord” is a player invented thing and has nothing to do with Blizzard right?
They never put systems in place in case it failed, not sure where you are getting that idea.