The ability to have and play a 2nd account is not being taken away. If people want to have multiple accounts, then they could continue.
This idea appeals to those who do not want to have a 2nd account. They just want to continue to add to their current account. So, while there may be a slight market overlap, Blizzard would be expanding the incentivization to spend more in the Blizzard store to those who would otherwise not be spending anything.
Blizzard tends to look at what classes and races are added when they increase the number of character slots. If their metrics show enough people hitting cap, then they will do an increase.
I don’t have an issue with an increase. I have an issue with an infinite expansion of an increase.
What, specifically, is your concern?
What would be your fear if someone spent 10 - 20 WoW Tokens and added 100 character slots to their account? Just as an example?
Characters are stored server side. The naming system hasn’t been updated ever.
An infinite system does not need to exist.
Asking for another five slots the next time a new race or class is released makes sense.
Asking for people to infinitely gain character slots to waste space and names does not.
People are limited by character slots and number of licenses. Limits should exist on the system. Even in MMORPGs where you can buy character slots they still have a max limit.
No one needs the possibility of unlimited characters in any game. The system doesn’t work like that anywhere.
Reasonable increases that make sense are fine. Yours is unreasonable. Period. End of story. Moving on.
two thing
flood the ah with tokens which would do two thing lower the gold for buying and selling the tokens.
and players are going to be making threads about buying tokens just to make character slots when they were free
As far as the first concern, the WoW Token price goes up and down naturally and probably wouldn’t be worse than any time anything else is added to the Blizzard store. Also, based on a few of the comments here, this wouldn’t impact too many people anyway. It would just help the few that enjoy the game in this manner.
As far as the second concern, if players make threads about buying the WoW Tokens, then that would be a separate (potential) problem. No real negative impact to the game or other’s gameplay.
I do see them adding more slots but I don’t think it would be as rapid as the suggestions made in the thread.
This might seem small but maybe we’ll get 5 more slots for everyone when Legion Remix comes around.
guess you was not on when we had that brontosaur mount in December
i was watching the tokens rise in price when people was buying the tokens off the AH just to get the 100$ price tag and we ran out of the tokens. the price did not come down somewhat in February
What are you people even doing with 70, 80, 90 chars
Just sub another acc on the bnet
This is a technical issue. If Blizzard can and are willing to implement this idea, then let them worry about the technicalities.
For you. If someone else has 65 characters or 120 characters on 1 account, then it literally has no impact on you.
For you. If someone prefers 15 character slots, then it literally has no impact on you.
Nobody is asking anyone to do this. This would be an option for those who would like to increase their character limit beyond what is included with the account by way of purchasing WoW Tokens.
Again, this is a technical issue. If Blizzard decides to do this, then let them worry about how to do it.
Many things in the game have been called “unreasonable”. Mythic difficulty was once called unreasonable, because less than 1% of the playerbase participates. 4 difficulties of the same raid or dungeon was once called unreasonable - and still called it by some. Pet Battle quests reward reputation was once called unreasonable.
What one random player calls “unreasonable” has become an entire genre of the game.
Some people enjoying leveling on different race / class combinations.
If you are fine with players having a 2nd account, then you shouldn’t have an issue with them expanding 1 account instead.
The max is already what? 60? 65? I dare say that’s more than enough for anybody. The number of people with no life who would even actively play that many is miniscule at best. I have enough trouble finding the time to play 4. I could only imagine the amount of free time I would need to play 100. My vote is no. Servers are already running weird. I would think 100k+ characters on a single realm would bog down these antiquated squirrel driven servers.
That’s just over two dollars a character slot. Way too cheap. If they did this I think the price for a single slot would be on par with a boost.
I do exactly this.
Neither of accounts are even full up I just had forgotten the details to it until I found it in my accounts google doc.
Tho sub got 20% more expensive not long ago so I’m likely gonna let it lapse.
65
I am finding it really interesting that people are so eager to say, “Based off how I am feeling and how I play, I have determined that this is enough for you.”.
The same could be said for Mythic difficulty raids right? I want to say the number of players who complete content on this level is around 1% - to 3%. By your logic, this shouldn’t be in the game, because it is for a miniscule number of players. Same with M20+ dungeons, pet battles, or class-based content.
I find it fascinating that other players would rather keep a reduced number character slots for everyone, because they can’t imagine it being useful for themselves.
Like, I could understand, “Meh, idc, no life yourself into 200 characters.”, but people are outright saying, “Based on me, you cannot have something that you want.”.
That’s not how any of that works.
First, it is on 1 account, so only 1 would be logged in at a time.
Second, if by your logic only a “miniscule” number of people would benefit from it, then a massive addition of character slots wouldn’t happen anyway.
Third, let Blizzard worry about the technicalities of implementing new concepts and ideas.
So, the number here is more-so a place-holder for the idea. If Blizzard and/or the community see 10 as too high, then it could be 1, 3, 5, or any other number.
I didn’t want to put it in the initial idea, but they could position the number in a way that benefits them in the future. So, for example, maybe they start at 3.
1 WoW Token = 3 Additional Character Slot
This would give them the availability of having “sales”, such as 1 WoW Token = 5 Additional Character Slots during a Christmas holiday sale or something.
Yeah, I’ve tried it, but I hated having to log over to an entirely different account swapping characters. It’s more inconvenient for me, because of the initial legwork of setting up addons and etc in the same way.
In this regard, the good news is that if a player is fine with other players having a 2nd account, then they shouldn’t have an issue with them expanding 1 account instead.
Lastly, the ability to have and play a 2nd account is not being taken away. If people want to have multiple accounts, then they could continue.
This idea appeals to those who do not want to have a 2nd account. They just want to continue to add to their current account. So, while there may be a slight market overlap, Blizzard would be expanding the incentivization to spend more in the Blizzard store to those who would otherwise not be spending anything.
i would 100% buy 2 tokens today if i could. dont know why ppl are hating on this.
must be new to the forums the reason why it it would either flood the market with tokens or stop players selling the tokens and you can not buy the tokens from the AH
The most I keep max leveled and welfare geared is 40 toons per xpac.
Disagreeing does not equate to hating. Let’s not be dramatic.
The issues were already outlined for infinite character slots and the OP refuses to comprehend reality.
I have upwards of 50 toons, do we really need more character slots?!
My bad, I missed your message earlier, somehow.
When you remove the context surrounding this line, then, yeah, it would appear that I wasn’t here, so I will restate it here:
So, what I am saying is two-fold:
WoW Token prices fluctuate every time something is added to the Blizzard store. So, saying that it would negatively impact the WoW Token just isn’t true. This is demonstrated by the sheer number of items on the Blizzard store, and the fact the WoW Token is operating just fine.
Based on comments here, this suggestion would only impact a “miniscule” number of players. Therefore, comparing its implementation to the Brutosaur cannot be considered in any way.
How do you figure this would impact the WoW Token any more than the following: