I do not remember this being a thing lol. I remember mount training going to level 20 I think it was in warlords but blank on the 30 riding.
You are several years too late. The precedent was set YEARS ago.
Every time Blizzard releases a new expansion, they offer a boost to the LOWEST level of that new expansion. That increases sales to brand new players, who can play the new stuff on day 1 instead of month 2. It has been hugely succesful.
It’s only offered to veteran players because they whine and moan if you don’t give them something! See GD for the last 8 years…
Talk about setting a precedent, TBC Classic will be FREE. Shouldn’t there be a charge for it? There was a charge for TBC back in 2007! Why isn’t there an outcry about that? I paid good money for TBC!
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(hey, didnt you and i have a long discussion about classic+ ideas?)
anyway, for only 1 character. i bet some folks will want the whole tbc experience including leveling thru old world azeroth zones the tbc way. the pop has been growing on classic since the prospect of a tbc announcement was made. they will not all boost and the ones that do, will surely have more than one char for tbc.
for example, i’m leveling a second mage, druid, holy paladin, priest, lock and hunter. one of them is gonna be boosted. the rest will go thru the content the old fasioned way. and i plan on making a couple draenei too.
Why am I ok with level boosts? I’m not ok with boosts. I’m ok with boost–the one and only boost they are offering. Got friends who didn’t play classic but will play TBC. This lets them play now instead of 2 months behind. The end.
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I personally don’t support it. It shouldn’t be TBC
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yea its over classic becoming retail really fast
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Like many others I also think this is a mistake. I’m not upset with it, but I do think there is a much better solution. Simply take the 20% exp reduction from 20-60 and increase it so that people can level through classic quickly, but still need to go through that experience on their way to TBC. This stays far more true to the original intent, and it doesn’t invalidate all the work and effort past players have put in to get there.
Blizzard is doing this because they want more people to play TBC, and they want to increase the mtx sales for classic wow, same with the character copy. Those things could easily be free as they cost blizzard almost no time and effort to stand up. The tech literally already exists for things like PTR.
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You’re still missing the point. The release date has absolutely nothing to do with this. New players are still allowed to start the game upon the release of BC 
It invalidates nothing anyways. People are choosing to think that their work is suddenly invalid because players can pay for a single boost into current content.
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It encourages the behavior that RL funds give you an advantage in the game. I don’t think that’s something that should be encouraged and I believe goes against the spirit of the game.
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How does it give anyone an advantage? It’s a one-time boost to catch up in level and you still have to level 58-70, you have to gear up, and if you want to play any other class or race you have to start from level 1. It’s a nearly insignificant “advantage” that is literally here to help new players join their friends in BC.
Well, looking at this from a different POV - One time if you only have 1 account. Many players and more notibly botters have multiple / hundreds of accounts therefore hundreds of boosts. The ramifications it has on the game overall is significant beyond just a single player with good intentions.
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Simple I will be buying boosts.
Yes more than one.
I still have one for Shadowlands.
I want to play TBC end game not Classic end game.
the group I will play in is waiting for the rush to end.
My problem is now my game time is cut into thirds now.
I play on retail Classic and now TBC and soon Wrath.
Just can’t get enough of Wow.
Hard part is picking the character.
I’m ok with it because what exactly is it hurting? Its 1 per account which is pretty fair of a compromise considering the reasons like hey bud tbc is out they can join. I like it cuz i can boost an alt up to mess around arenas or w.e with. Im trying to figure how this is hurting the game at all. Please give a solid example and not mere speculation other then it leads to retail.
my biggest concern I have about level boosts is that it will screw up the faction population.
Many of us know the private server scene and know that the horde is always stacked like 80:20 or 70:30 so these private servers turn to tactics to make players roll alliance (extra XP to lvl, free mount, ect)
Now with this buying boost bullcrap, it’s going to be worse.
Population balance will be destroyed after this.
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If wow token and character boosts where effective against botting, retail would have very few or no bots. How ever the reality is retail has a botting problem that is as bad if not worse then Classics botting problem.
Bots still sell gold in retail. It does work.
People are already talking about making multiple accounts just to abuse the 58 boosts to for the really valuable crafting CDs in early TBC. Putting the limit of 1 for account is pointless.
I am totally for it and if i could pick and choose i would like a gold shop too. As of current, your success in real life (or lack thereof) influences the game already. If you are unemployed / student / person with little to no real life you can invest a whole lot of time in the game. Level rank 14 before anyone else. Farm tons of Gold and level plenty of alts. When i come home from work i might have enough time to farm a little to get ready for a naxx run and thats it. So in terms of balance i wouldn’t mind buying gold or levels.
I do see this is an issue, perhaps people should level up through 1-60 before boosting unlocks. I believe what service will be and what we know right now will be 2 different things and requiring 1 60 is a fair compromise.