First off, really excited about the burning crusade. I’ve been playing and leveling characters with my friends in preparation for tbc. It’s been really fun but we’ll get back to that.
The option to pay real world currency for a powerful, ready for Outland character will upset the balance of Classic servers, it will gum up the dark portal at launch where the game was meant to be spread out over all the Azeroth zones even on launch day, and it will excasserbate the botting problem.
If you want to play burning crusade on launch you have MONTHS to level a character. Like my druids already level 42 and I’m a slow leveler.
Blizzard please reconsider offering the paid boost, it’s detrimental to servers and players.
Essentially if you don’t have time to level a character you won’t have time for TBC.
Wow, there’s a lot of new and non-regurgitated information here.
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If you’re on a PvP server, just kill the 58’s. Unless you’re terrible you can easily kill them, boom solved problem of them “gumming up” the dark portal.
PvE server? Most sweaty guilds are going to be dungeon boosting, so that’s a non-factor. If you’re not in a guild that’s doing that, then realistically even if you don’t want to deal with it you just wait a day or so and then that issue is solved.
From what I’ve seen and talked to people on my server about, it looks like most people who are going to be using the 58 boost are already 60 and just want a different class. So you’re trading 1:1 so that literally doesn’t matter.
So then you have only new players / bots left.
New players buying boosts is literally only good for the game; this was someone who wasn’t likely to play the game but now is. That helps server populations and other things.
Finally, bots. I’m on the fence on whether or not bot runners are actually going to buy boosts. I’ll be completely transparent; I used to run several bots during MoP/WoD and for how long it took for them to get banned as long as you weren’t suicide botting it was entirely more worth for me to just have the bot level them up manually versus paying IRL cash.
The only other thing would be massive bot farms, and sure, they maybe buy boosts? But usually they’re purchasing things with stolen credit cards anyways, so those boosts will get charged back and accounts banned anyways. Even if they are paying out of pocket for boosts, it’s the same thing whether they used their other accounts to boost their character up to 58 or bought it.
Recruit a friend existed in original TBC and was far, far more OP than what boosts can do. So the argument about ruining the “integrity” or whatever is asinine. That’s why I think these anti-boost threads are stupid; this same thing existed in retail TBC and was literally never a problem.
There has been multiple valid reasons to be pro-boost. You are just too self absorbed and dense to accept them. If you don’t want boosts, stay in classic era or just quit. It’d be better for everyone.
browse his post history. you’ll see why you shouldn’t try to actually talk to him. he has me blocked because i called him out on his bs. but i respond to him knowing he sees my little thing that says a post is hidden.
some of these people SAY they played original vanilla/tbc but when they post they seem like late teens early 20s at best. because it’s such a zoomer thing to think you are the center of the universe and someone should go against their best interests because you want them to, for your benefit only. (says the millenial, i know. but i’m an older one, darn it!)
I literally don’t understand the complaint about the boost. You get one per account. It won’t be max level. It won’t come equipped with tons of gold or epics. If you don’t know how to play that class, well people will notice. But whoopee, so what. Now if Blizz was selling as many as someone wanted that may be different. But they aren’t. It’s a one time catch up.
Heck I plan on using mine on a rogue because I hate playing them but then I’ll be able to open my own lock boxes then. I’ll never group up with others with him because I know I’m not good at playing them, and I’m okay with that.
generally you just go around and support every pro boost argument that exists. because your “counter” is “cuz i said so.” if you had stronger arguments than this you’re doing yourself, and your community, a huge disservice. you’re one of the most vocal anti boosters and your arguments essentially boil down to “No U.”
Okay, if you want to go with that logic, sure. They should exist because we want them to and they shouldn’t exist because you don’t want them to.
So we’re at a stalemate I guess? Oh, I have an idea! Let’s let the creator of the game decide!
Oh wait, they already did. And I guarantee the amount of boosts sold is going to more than offset the small, vocal group that quit because these were added.
I’m gonna put a TL;DR since I doubt you got past the first sentence before concocting a reply.
If you really want a good reason as to why they should exist: ‘cuz blizzard said so
You can’t kill bots that are inside instances. You have a really skewed perception on how the launch is likely to go. “Just kill them” isn’t a solution tot he problem that the purchasable boost solves.
And it’s not “literally only good” for the game. Your only argument against the bot farmers is that “they’ll likely spend more money on other stuff also”.
I think you’re missing the point. Once you turn the valve on this thing, things get better for an extremely small minority, and bad for all servers. It’s not worth it.
