What an idiotic statement. This is my US account alt for forum posting and is a completely different race and class to my main and this alt is on retail…
My comment wasn’t an opinion, it was a fact: your position that “most players who threaten to quit never do” is in fact not demonstrated. You can still believe it if you want, but you’d be believing it for no reason. And positions held for no reason carry no argumentative weight.
Do you have any data or statistics to back up the claim of more people are going to play because of the boost than people quitting? How do you know that?
I happen to agree with this statement. But why settle for that? Why not keep both playing?
Simply offer fresh TBC servers without boosts or cash shop and those who would have quit, or already have now have a server they can come back and play on. Everyone is happy.
Couldn’t be further from the truth… economically it makes more sense to put the money spent on a boost into more accounts and take advantage of the reduced exp requirements from levels 20-60. Also less risk of $ loss if an account is banned.
In the long run botters will make more money from 10 accounts than 1 boosted account…
One the main purposes of the boost is it lets people get back into content when they skipped a previous expansion, or in this case classic without having to start at the beginning. As for how can we be certain it works? probably because its been relatively successful for Blizzard, and they probably have actual data that shows this.
Honestly though even if it does nothing but pad their bank accounts, it doesn’t matter. Its old content and has minimal to no impact on the end game. Most people already have multiple 60’s does another matter much? The funny thing is even the older zones might get a boost, because people who start to play again, will actually have a good chance or rolling an alt or two.
I also doubt that many people leave because of the boost that wouldn’t leave for other reasons. The reality is if your willing to leave a game because someone can have a cosmetically different mount, or skip some old content, your probably not having fun anyway, and your better spending your time and money doing something else which you would enjoy.
Its why the blizzard store doesn’t really matter, it lets you do things that allow people to have fun, most of its pretty cheap, and its all essentially cosmetic. People have never been able to buy a real advantages in the actual game, like end game armor, or special skills, and with its track record, those aren’t likely, or we probably would have seen them in retail already.
Bots will not be using the boost lol it gets even easier to level a character to 60. Also using the excuse that it’ll put more clueless players into TBC is just wrong. Boost won’t decide whether someone’s good or not. Either their good or their bad at the game. 58 very fast levels will not fix that.