Eh, they’ll pivot it later on (after they’ve sold many boosts) like was always the plan, make themselves look like the good guys by giving it in ICC, they love that positive PR that people soak up.
So the initial comment from you:
The answer to that is because they can. They can remove LFD and their “repercussion”, if you can even call it that, is that a few people and their alts have thrown a temper tantrum on the forums but are still subscribed anyway.
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It was a generalized statement to a generalized statement.
The guy was just talking about blizzard not being a democracy.
I don’t discount that as a possibility. There are a lot of people that think the lack of RDF will encourage paid boosts and that is the reason they don’t want it. I’m not sure I agree with that, but I wouldn’t be my life that it isn’t.
what if im in a dorm with my entire guild?
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you can be as loud as you want but as long those subs and whales keep pumping money
yeah, 0 repercussions
remember people hating tbc pass? the fruit bowls ? the bunch of guys on mediv’s and illidan’s escort quarters?
and now the wrath pass?
yueah, people keep on buyin them and no body cared about theoutrage 1 month into the expac
Because people don’t actually care about that.
How about flying, or dual spec, or covenants, or purchasable legiondairies
There’s many things they’ve backed off on because it would lose them money, they’re not a dictatorship, they’re just a company that has to keep customers.
Sure we won’t lose much over this, it’s not that big of a deal, but they wouldn’t lose anything by putting it in either, LFD will make people play more, thought they liked that.
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Currently, they think people will play (and pay) more if they delete LFD from wrath. Thats the entirety of the logic behind removing LFD. They’ll only reinstate LFD if this is proven to be wrong i.e. the sub #s are lower than projected.
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Or like i said earlier, after they sell enough 70 boosts.
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Yea but only after the fact. 0% chance blizzard pivots before then. So, as of right now, Blizzard wont even entertain adding LFD. Phase 2 at the earliest is my prediction.
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Because their decision isn’t based on what the simple majority wants, even if that ended up being the case. Kind of a simple answer to your simplistic question.
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Because they’ll just say what they want to do.
In this case, “the majority expressed a desire to keep RDF out of Wrath Classic”.
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Right. Or the minority for the matter. Or anyone. The decision has nothing to do with public opinion and everything to do with profit maximizing.
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I have no intention of being monetized any further than my subscription and I’m very satisfied with the change.
That being said, I’m not so sure of your assessment.
That would ruin the narrative. They want to pretend that they are concerned for “muh community” but in reality they want to peddle the 70 boost. They don’t want competition for the 70 boost since that is a valuable source of money. That is why they removed LFD, so people don’t have a time-saving leveling alternative to the boost.
Blizz won’t poll something that will ruin their bottom line.
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Leveling is dirt-brain easy in WOTLK, you can do an 80 in mere days without touching a dungeon.
The suggestion that a lack of RDF “promotes 70 boosts” cannot and will not be taken seriously.
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As if I need a clown’s validation. Keep shilling for boosting services under the guise of “muh community”.
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Your opinion is garbage and nobody cares what you think.
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because they already made the decsions. this isn’t a publicly ran business.
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Nah, because AFAIK, the Boost will still be ‘one per account’. I think the real reason is to slow down leveling so we end up needing to play longer to ‘finish’ a character.
…longer play means more MAUs and more Sub Time.
((I keep hearing that they’ll be making boosting impossible…something about XP dropping significantly if there’s a higher level in the group.))
*Even when RDF was introduced most still didn’t use it in the lower levels. It was primarily used by those in Wrath content.
((This also the reason for the lockout changes being considered. Guilds won’t want to waste a lockout to clear a few of the Heroic bosses. They’ll spend it on the Normal and THEN progress into Heroic. Potentially adding weeks of grinding to the Phases where this will be ‘a thing’.))
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