Let me get this straight: You’re okay with people fundamentally undermining everyone else’s experience of playing Classic and uprooting the social fabric embedded in its gameplay and design, but someone who spends money on a level 58 boost (which, mind you, can only be purchased once), and has no effect on you, as a player, is abhorrent?
Your logic is skewed and flawed. You should do some self-reflecting lmao
Anti Boosters and “Fresh Starters” share many of the same ideals. That Classic is broken and rolling into TBC with characters from Classic just made TBC a cesspool of min/max, gold digging, elitist punks who ruin the game for the people who have a life.
I like to think of it this way, if someone sold you a new home, but told you you couldn’t move into it until you lived in the old home for 60 months, would you think they are crazy? If I bought a new home, I’d want to move in right away!
I wouldn’t go that far, but not having even one single fresh server option is insane.
I think it’s a compromise. Letting people start in TBC, but not just freely giving out the boost for $.
“freely” giving out the boost for “$”. One thing it’s not free if it’s paid for and second it’s one per account. they aren’t handing out anything
I don’t know what’s going on with this community.
https://youtu.be/znzH9u3DK2o this is mike morhaime talking to the community. one of the starters of your sacred world of warcraft. maybe you should heed his advice. we’re all gamers. we’re all human. be respectful of each other and have fun. it’s a game we are all here to enjoy
I just personally feel that boosting takes away from the health of the game. New characters fill the old world. New characters keep dungeon groups happening in the old world and making it possible to run instead of begging for 60s to bail you out. The overall health of the game works on this principle.
However, today’s “Boost me big daddy” crowd has pissed all over this concept. For people who want “Authentic” WoW experiences enough to whine and moan about how Blizzard shouldn’t change things that are being abused and changing this principle, they are against the “authentic” experience of being out in the world and leveling the old way. Which is what the “authentic” intentions were. It’s just a sign of the times. I don’t hate boosters at all however. Boost in dungeons, boost with cash. It is what it is.
I’ll get mad at whatever the F I feel like getting mad at and boosting has NO place in TBC. It’s the greatest failure by Blizzard to date.
Don’t lie to yourself and say otherwise.
Oh and by the way Blizzard called the game “Classic” TBC sooo…
then quit. stop paying your monthly sub.
but Warlords of Draenor was awful for reasons completely unrelated to boosts
Calling it Burning Crusade Classic is fine. Having the boost is fine. Even starting at level 1 is fine.
My point is that Burning Crusade Classic does not start at level 58. If I start that up right now and create a new character, I start at level 1.
If they meant something other than Burning Crusade Classic when they said it started at 58 they should have said that then. If they used the exact same term to mean 2 different things, that’s poor communication.
and now a bunch of pro-boosters use that to claim “but Blizzard said the game starts at level 58!”.
Then those people are incorrect. They said the expansion starts at 58, not the entire game, at least that’s what their wording sounds like to me
I would love a fresh server!
I personally do not care. I bought a boost because I stopped levelling a toon at 16 . I started having flashbacks to original WOW from 15 years ago and I want no part in that. I just want to play TBC for about a month, then will probably quit again.
Honestly folks, people getting mad at boosters (such a fun thing to say) are possibly mad because they feel like another gate has been torn down. When they tell you to actually play the game, they mean it! Facegrind to a questing system designed in the early 2000s to keep subscribers suscribing and enjoy it. Endear yourself to others or join a guild to get carried. Save up pieces of gold to give to someone so they will boost you (but do not give money to Blizzard so that they will boost you! Remember folks, it’s about integrity!) Learn that to be truly successful, you will have to gain access to meaningful progression through established players who will determine at their discretion whether or not you are worthy of receiving this access. If you are not deemed worthy then you will suffer. This is playing the game–passing through a series of gates kept by players who rely on these gates to feel good about having passed through those gates themselves and giving those players the added sense of self-worth that they feel when they judge others. Simply paying your way up to lv58 undermines their position as self styled gatekeepers, and you really should be spat upon for that.
You can go and level out in the world any way you want, mages are as they were back in the day and as they are intended, we just weren’t smart enough back then to realize it. Now adding boosts to INSTANTLY get 58 was NOT in the game at any point back then and it shouldn’t be now, otherwise blizzard needs to stop calling it “Classic TBC” because its not and its false advertising.
There is time involved in leveling. Big deal. If you don’t like it don’t play the game because leveling is one of the biggest parts about classic. You don’t HAVE to pay a mage to boost you or pay blizzard they just increased questing XP across the board.
You’re going to tell me that leveling is one of the biggest parts of Classic and still defend boosting in the same breath?
No, they don’t.
Funny how we have to access TBC through the “Classic” tab in the launcher. I know you’re going to deny any and all reason on this, but just a PSA, there is Retail, and there is Classic. There are multiple eras contained within Classic (it’s a category), but if you’re playing anything other version of WoW than Retail through Blizzard’s launcher, it’s Classic.
Buying and selling dungeon carries is cancerous too, but even in spite of how destructive it is to the game overall, it does still happen with in-game mechanics as they were designed. Monsters have to die, quests have to be turned in, etc. Dungeon carries weren’t intended by Vanilla Blizzard, but at least one level of grime is scraped off of this whole topic because you don’t have to explicitly break any rules to do it.
It’s even worse that, instead of removing this ‘gameplay’ that wasn’t intended by the original designers of the game, Blizzard saw that it could be monetized, so they slapped a price on it and you can swipe your credit card to just buy a character.
There’s been an interesting trend over the years since Activision took over that Blizzard doesn’t mind enormous breaches in their mission of “Gameplay First” as long as they can get you to swipe your credit card for them.
No, no, see, that doesn’t count because you’re still logged in not playing the game and letting someone else get you to 58 for you!
How could I be so stupid?!