What’s the advantage?
Getting a mount that just looks different but runs just as fast as any other mount available to every other player?
And is a ground mount in an expansion with flying.
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I would state that being able to play the game versus someone who is F2P is definitely a massive advantage.
Level 60 characters in full naxx gear and sitting on thousands of gold think a fresh level 60 shouldn’t be able to have a full speed mount unless they make 600g which is basically the amount you get for leveling to 62-63.
nevermind that the boost doesn’t even give journeyman riding, it gives apprentice (aka 60%)
but all the anti-boosters seem convinced that it’s free 100% riding 2 whole levels before that’s even able to be trained 
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Woah cowboy let’s not get too factual here.
Inb4
“OMG BUT YOU GET THE MOUNT FREE AND THATS LIKE A WHOLE HUNDRED GOLD”
but wow isn’t f2p. That ‘experience’ is a trial.
Sounds like semantics to me.
Either way your argument is pointless and a waste of time. Boosts are official.
Why not go back to retail? Looks like you’re a 3rd of the way to 60 already.
Pity they can’t respond to the important questions. Like why they lied to the community about the length of prepatch, and telling players they’d get a boost (only to charge an astronomical amount for it later). Those are the responses we need… some owning up to the f-ups their greedy implementation team decided to put forward.
There was nothing said by Blizzard about the length of the prepatch before it was announced.
Anything said by the community and press was pure speculation.
No lie was told. Nothing at all was said. Period.
The boost was announced as a paid service from the very beginning. No ifs, ands, or buts.
It is $40 USD. Not an astronomical amount by any means.
What the hell are you on about?
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This isn’t pay to win and if you think it is you are unbelievably stupid.
All they said was we would be able to level Draenei and Blood Elves before TBC launched. The statement of having time to get them to 60 before launch was a fabrication by the community spawned from hopeful speculation
They never said this. They said from the very start that the boost would be a paid service, and the “astronomical price” is in fact cheaper than the retail boost
Incorrect. It’s a level of stupidity I can believe.
I can’t, I figured people who could operate a computer couldn’t be this stupid.
I assume you don’t work in IT.
There’s a political joke to be made in there, somewhere
It’s silly but we are stuck on semantics here…
To be more precise. This is not “pay to win” but this is “pay for an advantage in the game” which is the concept behind which ‘pay to win’ is opposed.
Technically correct, but the boost is as much an “advantage” as getting a handful of gold for signing a guild charter
In fact, most of the people upset at the boost are already level 60, likely with a handful of fairly high-end gear, journeyman riding, and at least a solid amount of gold on hand. The boost is 2 levels short of that, only gives you basic green gear, likely no more than a couple hundred gold at most, and apprentice riding, so by all accounts it’s actually a disadvantage
They didn’t
How would going back to retail help when it comes to store mounts and boosts? I should be saying that to you if you want those things in Classic.