Mmm… I get why you would think that based on that post. Apologies if I started to get more rambling as the thread went on, yesterday wasn’t the greatest for sleep for me unfortunately xD.
I will clarify:
Generally when Blizzard makes a change to the game, class spell tuning, for example, they do so at the behest of some portion of the community and their staff identifying an issue. That change will obviously split the people affected, as some number of folks will always resist change of any kind, genuinely believe the change is wrong, or not want their toy taken away because it is fun for them to be above the competition.
Then you have systems changes for new expansions, patches, and so forth, that again, are generally done at the request of some percentage of players and staff, or is part of new creative endeavors on Blizzards part.
… A monetization of a service to skip content is entirely different on the grounds that it requires a real life money to get the “solution” to an entirely in game problem, when the philosophy of having all the solutions to problems and goals in an MMO are to be found IN the MMO and not externally is more in the spirit of what classic set out to achieve originally, and is expected by those that wanted that purely internal mmo experience. I’m not trying to speak for everyone, but obviously a big part of the ire that the anti boost people are trying to articulate is that these kind of services give us no option to have that kind of experience in WoW if they’re introduced to classic. We can’t go to modern and we can’t go to classic now because blizzard decided money supercedes the importance of the precedent that they set for themselves in classic.
I’m also pretty sure that they flat out SAID that Classic is classic, and those types of in game options would never be offered because that’s not what classic was about.
Edit: Here is at least 1 instance. https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/ct08c7/welcome_to_the_rclassicwow_subreddit_ama_with_the/exiano5?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
Well, if you feel that way, you are more than entitled to. I’m concerned with retail systems creeping into classic, just like they had in the current game. If you look at the history of the game, when payable services entered the picture, the game began its decline, and they never rolled them back. Once it’s in, it seems to stick. Is it entirely the reason behind the decline? Of course not. But to act like it wasn’t a key point of change to the philosophy of making the game, is in my opinion, delusional.
I really hope so. But again, it’s not a position we need to be in, in the first place. RAF would have been more than enough to satisfy both sides with 0 need for conflict, imo.
In the hopes that I don’t have to copy and paste all of my posts for the entire thread, I believe my reasoning is evident in said posts. Blizzard also said that the boost was targeted at new players looking to play with friends of I’m not mistaken. While TBC as a whole may not be targeted necessarily at a new audience, the boost certainly is, and blizzard will ALWAYS be happy with new subs, regardless of who they think will primarily be playing long term.
Edit: Quote by Kaivax directly: "Character Boosts are not in keeping with Classic. We don't want to break any hearts." - #10 by Kaivax
… It’s “for” new players, man.