SO MUCH OF THIS!!! Hell I see it now honestly due to Boost running. Had a 45 Lock in my group on my alt Hunter whose currently 46 doing Elite quests in Sear Gorge in The Pit. First they keep asking the Priest to make them water…ya I’ll let that sink in, then on pull instead of DoT’ing mobs they just spam fears, needless to say we ended up w/adds and died pfq.
The ability to insta boost in TBC is going to be such a train wreck early on (I’ll def be doing guild only runs).
I think antiboosters are the wow equivalent of anti-vaxxers
because the premise that it doesn’t ‘hurt’ (which I think is a silly word to use in the context of a video game) anyway is false. And I’d say it’s false for the reasons that I listed in my OP, that madseason mentioned in his video, for the reasons that asmongold has mentioned on his streams and that other anti-boosters have mentioned in their threads.
You had to purchase 3 months of game time to receive the mount, also the limited use was a 90 day window. We could argue about how “limited” it is but I’m just gonna leave this there because its just an opinion.
I’m using the word “toxic” in reference to people just powering their characters to 70 with little to no effort.
Here I’ll justify it. Adding the shop is a convenience, it does not change game play or anything at all. What they add to the shop can be debated which is what this subject is about, complaining about the shop is irrelevant to any argument about this topic.
This is the crux of your argument, which I agree with. Adding the TCG mounts ingame for gold is imo not a bright idea because then it goes back to what you said about the rarity. I do think they should add the mounts either via shop or card packs again but I also don’t really care if they add new ones in place of the old ones from the shop. Mounts for real life money existed in TBC so its really not a big deal if they do in classic TBC too.
worthless youtubers just stir the pot for views. madseasons video was nothing more than an appeal to emotion, and a blatant lie about bots buying boosts
I don’t believe you, or if you’re not lying, it was likely some kid playing his dad’s character.
I have yet to see any one come up with an actual in game problem that is not just massively over blown fear mongering.
You won’t even be able to tell a boosted character from anyone else in game.
That’s because you don’t want to believe that there is an ‘actual’ problem. I’d argue that many legitimate concerns have been brought up AND justified but you simply refuse to accept them with no reasonable explanation as to why.
Yesn’t
At launch you probably will and even when you can’t, why does that eliminate any in-game harm they still do? You will still be able to notice the effects even if you can’t see the characters.
It is, because you don’t have a coherent argument. Just your gut feeling & some faux outraged youtube experts that say what you want to hear. Tell us more how boosts cause autism, oh I mean bots.
Every single point has been debunked. And once dug into just a little bit ends up not actually being an in game issue but just someone being vaguely offended someone else didn’t level the “right” way.
Coherent is not the opposite of substantiated. An argument can be both unsubstantiated and coherent. As long as the logic is consistently applied throughout the argument, which I think it has been. I’ve been consistent with my way of thinking, it’s just that you think that thinking is wrong. Some of the arguments are somewhat substantiated either through logic, historical precedent or empirical evidence and some are more feelings based.
The fact that you are insistent on using this mind-numbing comparison is just cause for me to discontinue our conversation.
Except they haven’t. Pro-boosters have simply repeated the same half a dozen surface level one liners that nobody with a functioning brain takes seriously.
That’s your intentional mischaracterisation of all anti-boost arguments, yes.
I’ve asked repeatedly for an actual in game problem and noone can come up with anything.
They can and have, you just choose to pretend as if they haven’t and can’t.
Except all those points have been answered and noone can come up with anything new.
Come on, name something that’s not in mad season’s video.
You can’t “pretend” something hasn’t been done if it has not actually been done yet
Go ahead, instead of avoiding the question why don’t you actually respond to it?
Except they haven’t been answered because those ‘answers’ have been counter-answered.
But you can if it has (which it has).
what do you think the OP is + all the other people making arguments are.
Not always true, not that everyone uses it the same but I used it with friends back in the day to boost ourselves multiple characters across multiple accounts that we then later all merged on to 1 battle.net and one account. Again not everyone has to do it that way and maybe new players will legitimately use it, just it can and would be abused by existing players.
The only thing that was limited as the new account, you could connect 2 new accounts at once the the “main” account and do it every 90 days if you wanted. The limit was how many times you wanted to connect a new account.
Making people jump through more hoops doesn’t hurt in game. This is just an opinion here because again its just convenience. Me logging into their website or using the shop from battle.net for my game time purchase has no effect on my in game performance.
I remember the cards back in wrath going for $100-150, sure the price point should be expensive but not the current prices online. I’m not going to estimate a price because its just an opinion.
Sure but again its either you go through blizzard or you go through another site, you wouldn’t rather just go through blizzard? If someone is making the money here why shouldn’t it be them with their own shop? Just a reminder again you can’t trade or sell hearthstone cards so an argument could be made that that does not work either because they were tradeable and sellable irl.
Right and those answers quickly just devolved into what I said, some people are vaguely offended that someone else didn’t level the “right” way.
That’s not an in game problem with boosting.
Exactly as has been explained: blind speculation based on personal feelings, victimization, and a video of a YouTube personality telling you how to feel
Every single point in the op is wrong lol… I don’t have time to go into details now, but hopefully I can get to it soon.