Except the part where a good majority buy the headstart and the problem that blizz was trying to avoid with sharding happens anyways or they just shard it anyways. Then say thanks for the extra money.
I’d just rather not have sharding but I’d rather have sharding than reenforcing the milk the pkayer base mentality.
Which in case you guys missed is ruining gaming.
i understand your point. this was only meant as a way to spread out the population and only for like 3 days or so early access . if they went and did sharding anyways there would be no point to it .
like i said im just spitballing.
seems though that any idea i can come up with to spread the population would involve p2w or some other stuff that people are against . i too am against it but not in this case cause its a 1 time cost before the game even comes out officially and would only give a 3 day headstart. it would have to be a low cost though.
I would include it as one of the perks (along with a companion pet) of a Classic CE. Are people against a collector’s edition for Classic too?
Which means even more buy it.
Set it too high and it becomes even more of a p2w advantage because less will buy it.
Either way it doesn’t spread mant people out.
They may as well sell level brackets. LOL
Seriously if I was a mod reading this and then reading GD.
I’d be roflmao.
No problem with a collectors edition, but like the original it should only give you a fancy box, some art, and an in game non-combat pet.
Nothing more nothing less.
The point is, I am totally against allowing Activision to interpret anything or even consider allowing them to expand on features because they will make a real mess out of it no matter how they intend to handle things.
Just to make sure we don’t overload the battleground servers, Blizzard should allow us to pay for a head-start access to battlegrounds too. I wanna get a week or two of honor grinding done before everyone else does, it’s no different than people joining battlegrounds a week later.
/s
I’d prefer to show my support for Classic by paying for such a thing. This is showing your support and passion for something. Everyone has the option.
For the tourists that Ion mentioned who just want to check out Classic…what difference does it make if they’re there a few days later? For the purists who want a community-driven mmo, it’s fantastic that those with similar love for the game will be playing alongside them in those first few days.
It’s a win win win.
Here’s another interesting thought.
That slippery slope that everyone was so scared of.
Add a paid headstart and whats next?
Name changes? Faction transfers? Server transfers? Tokens? Level boosts to 60? Tmog for cash? Extra storage?
Where does the slippery milk slope end?
thats something to be considered obviously. i dont honestly know.
So you’re telling me that if Classic had its own, separate sub that would be pay2win? Because how is that any different? Is it not enough they’re giving Current WoW players Classic for free?
Don’t know if someone already suggested, but perhaps let people who’ve been subbed for a while (ie, you’ve already been subbed for 2+ months or something) start like a day early.
When did we start talking about seperate subs?
One sec let me reread this. Brb.
Open beta to every single person that wants to try it out. Maybe like 2 months prior to release. This will give those a chance to try it out and if they don’t like it, well they won’t be there on release. It will also somewhat gauge numbers wise how many will play. Idk.
It’s something other than sharding at least. I’m sure this idea has been brought up before.
You’re saying paying anything extra is wrong. A separate sub would be something extra. Why is there a distinction being made for something like a headstart or collector’s edition?
Like I said: is it not enough you get Classic for free? You’d flip out if there’s an option for Classic fans to pay to start a few extra days early in a game that is going to be static for the infinite future of WoW? That’s really a big deal to you?
Ironic. Oh my god this is ironic.
The people who want a community-driven MMO will be the ones with a more casual mentality, who don’t pay for the early access RUSH to the finish line that the streamers and ALL OF THEIR FOLLOWERS will pay for if they’re offered the chance.
If there’s a head-start option, you’re going to get the Asmongold experience, the Quin69 experience; the Alexensual experience more than you would have if everyone started at the same time. In fact, the trolls from streaming communities will be split up and scattered with sharding rather than focused into a single point ruining the experience for the Classic fans.
Yea. No. I see no mention of a seperate sub.
Then you fail to see the hypocrisy in your argument.
Oh I see what you’re trying to do there.
No. I don’t get classic for “free”.
If I don’t sub. I don’t play same as everyone else.
There is no “free” and I didnt say seperate sub was p2w.
if blizz went the seperate sub route than I would choose to sub to classic and not retail.
Until I felt the itch to sub back to retail. At which time I would unsub from classic.
Thats not what blizz decided though. So here we are with some of you trying to change blizz’s mind with a p2w option disguised as an alternative to sharding.
That won’t make a difference other than blizz getting more money.
If they do it I have no problem paying to gain early access. I’ve got money and I would almost think that most of the “old” classic wow crowd has money these day since were all older. I think that so many would jump on the pay to play band wagon it may even defeat the purpose of getting on early and you would still have the starting zone crowd
I also think that depending on what time zone you are in it also benefits you. Now all of this is contingent on how well they did their stress testing on the new servers and load balancing. What would be horrible is server crashes
Please quote me as saying this.