Because it works. It adds players to the game. That has been proven over and over. BFA was an xpack. Legion was an xpack. So were ones before that. Adding the boost to an xpack can add as many as a million new players to WoW. It’s done it before.
Blizzard WANTS new players. Blizzard doesn’t care if that doesn’t matter to you. It matters to them. The game is not only for veteran players. It is also for new players. Sorry about that…
Of course it doesn’t. It simply adds content to an already existing game. Everything in the game is relevant, whether it was from Vanilla or added in TBC. If not, then you could only play Blood Elves and Draenei, for example.
But for people say, ‘Well, this part of the game is content, but that part isn’t’ is completely disingenuous. People grasping at straws.
Right so even back in the day blizzard was trying to funnel players into the current expansion asap.
Boosts just cut out the BS.
I didn’t realize they were actually removing Azeroth from the game, what a travesty
it sure does, they get some money for a month or two then everybody quits lmao
Vanilla, TBC and Wrath managed to add 12 million + players without boosts.
To me boosts were put in as a stopgap for all the subs that had left the game by then…which was many, many millions. A lot less players means they needed more ways to get their money.
That was in WOTLK not TBC. Don’t quote me out of context to try proving a point that isn’t valid.
TBC decreased EXP needed to level, increased quest exp and added new quest hubs to low level content. All of which are designed to get people into outlands faster.
So yeah I wasn’t talking about just heirlooms… kind of hypocritical noone is whining about those changes…
The XP changes came quite a bit later in the expansion though they weren’t there from prepatch or launch, so for many people 1-70 at a normal XP rate was still the overall TBC experience.
Of course Blizzard adds catch up mechanics to each version/expansion once it’s been out long enough. Heck, even Vanilla has catch up gear and raids that are designed to close the gap. It’s a pretty bold assumption to think that some form of catch up mechanic or change is the same as completely invalidating parts of the game though.
Invalidate? What, did they announce the boost was mandatory to play TBC Classic? Shoot, that sucks
Saying that “TBC starts at level 58” like OP is referring to, is trying to invalidate a large part of the game yes? That should be fairly obvious imo.
TBC was and still is an expansion and there isn’t nearly enough content in TBC for it to ever be its own stand-alone game.
Which really doesn’t change that during TBC blizzard realized that leveling in old content was mostly just a solo experience and was trying to speed people through it.
Boosts just cut it out altogether, which is fine, since most people playing classic already played through it anyways and it makes more sense for them just to be playing with everyone else in outlands.
No it doesn’t? The whole game is still there, saying an expansion starts where it starts doesn’t suddenly make the rest of the game cease to exist, what are you on about?
You people keep going on about how “TBC isn’t a game, it’s an expansion!” when that changes literally nothing about what was said. You’re not arguing a point, you’re stating an unrelated fact
Leveling in TBC wasn’t a solo experience though, I actually ironically had an easier time finding other people to level with in old world content in TBC than I do in Classic.
Probably because it doesn’t start at 58? There are literally new leveling zones for two completely new races that both begin well before 58 lmao… I swear forum posters here get more ridiculous every day.
So yes saying “TBC only starts at 58” is not only an incredibly stupid thing to say it’s just flat out wrong.
If you’re trying to argue in favor of boosts maybe pick an argument that isn’t just plain wrong from its most basic premise.
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Neither of which are eligible for boosting, soooooooo…
Maybe instead of throwing out backhanded insults and sarcastic remarks, you actually sit and think for a moment that perhaps you’re overreacting for no valid reason
And? I can still take old characters around new zones that are not 58, and not in Outlands. Again one of the dumbest and just plain wrong arguments a person could be making in favor of boosts.
And you’ll still be able to do that even with the existence of boosts
Honestly at this point I’m pretty sure boosts (or any other change) causes people like that actual pain.