I meant I didn’t get the survey this time around - have no idea what they asked.
WoW is not based around creating alts. Its something extra you can do on the side. But it isn’t the focus.
Opps, sorry. Misunderstood your response.
Akston:
“WoW is not based around creating alts. Its something extra you can do on the side. But it isn’t the focus.”
That must be why they give you the ability to create 40 of them.
I mean. Ok?
Just because you have the ability to do something in WoW doesn’t mean the game is based around it
WoW is a character progression game. While some people are pushing it to become an account progression game, because they want their alts to have max gear/rep/etc the moment they hit 120…that is not yet the case.
Well, phishing is totally a thing and shady characters have phished for WoW player information many times before.
The OP edited his post. He originally said that he had “refreshed his browser” to do the survey again then changed it to read “took the survey again”. He also reported questions regarding skipping 120 hours of leveling and different price points for different totals of levels skipped.
Legitimate surveys block that sort of action to prevent a minority skewing the data through voting multiple times. It’s why surveys on most forum sites are not reliable. Blizzard has done surveys from time to time over this website, very infrequently, and have done so in a way to block multiple votes by single characters.
I would highly recommend avoiding the links and the survey should you encounter this email as a phishing attempt to infect your computer with viruses and malware.
The survey invite contains a hash that’s seems unique. Re-taking the survey using the same hash would likely just over-write the previously recorded results, not ADD a new set of results.
I agree, caution bordering on paranoia is absolutely justified with links found in email… but this one seems legit.
A level squish would break the game. The stat squish already throws everything in confusion. This would be so much worse.
Was more interested in the statements around all existing characters would have to relevel from 1 once the squish is implemented.
The time played metric definitely gets increased when when you do full character progression on several alts, though. During Legion I had like 5 characters level maxed and geared. Many people maxed out far more than that. The mage tower challenge encouraged completionists to branch out and use specs and classes they’d never used before.
That would definitely kill WoW. Ain’t nobody going to stand for having all their characters reduced to level 1. Even those that support the squish.
The most logical and likely scenario would be cutting levels in half and capping levels at 60.
We already have zone and level scaling pretty much beta tested out at this point. Most of the “critical” points in character development would move back in a similar manner. You would likely pick a spec at 5 instead of 10, mounts at 10, flight at 30, etc, etc.
We have had 2 back to back expansions with all player progression being tied to gear in general and a gimmick in particular. Hard capping players at 60 would make item level inflation a non-issue as gear would simply get a hard reset every 2 years.
The bigger problem that would remain is the discontinuity of leveling through multiple expansions while traveling backwards and forwards in time over and over again.
Was that part of the survey? I didn’t get any questions pertaining to that, probably because my response to the idea of a level squish was “strongly dislike”.
Show a screenshot of the email tbh.
The survey stuff means nothing if we cant see the email.
If the survey is legit (and it looks like it), this squish idea is 100% about maximizing BOOST sales.
Raising the character cap to 50… allied races… it’s all about the revenue. In boosts or race-changes.
And if squish breaks the legacy levelling experience all to heck? GREAT! More people who’ll get fed up and just buy the new ‘better priced’ Boosts for every alt they start.
And if end-game content is underwhelming? Whatcha gonna do? You’re gonna start an alt, that’s what.
I swear I’ve seen less predatory behavior from used car dealerships.
Oh yeah, I bet that would be really popular. Sounds like a comedy machinima, tbh.
No matter how much common sense you have, some idiot will spend the money on these things. Blizzard doesn’t have any integrity toward the game or their players, they want money.
As long as some fool is willing to give it, this is the hand we have been dealt.
How does reducing the amount of levels you need to get to max incentivize boosts?
Sure, but I’m not sure what difference it will make if you’re dead-set on disbelieving the rest of it:
https://i.imgur.com/duYO5mU.jpg
Because it’s a chaotic confusing mess.
If there aren’t levels what would there even be to boost?