Even if EVERYONE start at level 60 for TBC. A lot of players are gonna be behind because they can’t play X hours per/days.
While some players will be doing Karazhan/Mag/Gruul some players will be level 67 doing normal dungeons.
We can’t wait everyone, everytime.
I still remember how crowded the belf zone was. It was so much fun discovering it all for the first time. Sadly taht belf never made it out of the Ghostlands as I was just checking it out.
I agree this was the goal. I am just saying that 2 weeks is too short for that to be a reality for most people.
During Blizzconline TBC deep dive, they joked about their blood elf /draenei friends still levelling in Dustwallow while they were all in Outlands. That very scenario will still be the case for a lot of players with only 2 weeks lol.
Yep, was fun till the 30-55 range, when I was alone and missing out on what my guild was doing. I think I got to outlands as people started attunments.
I think the point is that players that want to main a new race, would like to be able to take that character into the dark portal as it opened.
The opening of the dark portal is one time only event (two if you count the TBC originally). The rest is not.
That is true. There are rep grinds and such and the hard core will be rushing them. The problem is, the regular players now want to emulate the best players due to all the free information out there and get the “max” out of an already super old expansion.
I love TBC and will put the time into this hunter to get the fullest experience I can (even though they are changing a lot of stuff) and I get we can’t wait for everyone. I don’t think we are “waiting” though. I think blizz is rushing to put out content that I doubt will be ready and polished and they could release prepatch the 1st and the game 2 weeks later or what ever they wanted to do after that.
Not only would delaying just slightly give returning players the ability to catch up to 60 it would give more time to polish the game which lets be honest is something blizz never does.
Would you have more faith if they rushed out a game where they are making changes to systems that are 14 years old essentially recreating them or would you feel more confident having them say, we are releasing a little later to really polish the systems we are changing?
I don’t see how everyone wouldnt win in that situation. Im full t1/2 pretty much all I cared about in P1 hard to find players after a while and quit due to lack of guilds recruiting. Heard the news of TBC and was ecstatic. wanted to prep my main and level my druid just like i had in the good old days and now the game is like oh btw its pretty much out already…
Honestly, not even worth arguing with these people. A two week prepatch is silly af. One month notice is silly af.
These are just giga-nerds with egos trying to flex on you to boost their ego. From another no-lifer, these people are dumb and honestly quite annoying to play with.
2 weeks is far too short for the general population. Literally zero reason to rush this outside Q2 ending.
It’s amazing that the shareholders think THIS is the best idea.
I did the same, I loved the BE zone. I did go back to tame the green core hound when BM was able to in the space goat starting area. I was chaotic though. Think that adds some charm to the launch though while maybe adding in a little baby rage due to the lag fest 
Thats the only reason. They need a Q2 boost. Thats the only reasonable take on it.
wow good thing people who play this game don’t have job’s or family and can just play 8+ hours a day
Wonder if these people deleted their characters because guilds were clearing AQ in under 40 minutes
They dont have to.
They just have to accept they will not be as far along as those who do put in 8+ hours a day.
Thats a simple fact of WoW from Vanilla to Wrath.
This cracked me up. “I practice on private servers for live.” Why not just play for free then on private?
well i said “a decent chunk” meaning a pretty small population of people. and I do think it’s too short, I wish it was a few weeks longer, but what are the odds they’re going to change it now?
That’s fine, and that’s how mmos should work. But you’re trying to distract from the real issue here, and that’s that Blizzard said players would have plenty of time to level their Blood Elves and Goats before TBC launched. You can argue semantics all you want but two weeks is not ‘plenty of time’.
They never said that.
They said that you would be able to start them during pre patch
I’d say Blizzard has had some hard numbers to chew over in the last 2 Quarters, and they feel their hand was forced.
I understand. When I was 14 I played 8.5 hours a day some days (during some xpacs most days) but life goes on.
IMO (and mine only) Its just sad that a lot of the people who can put in that time these days are either paid to do so or they will be the 14 year old kid who wants to jump into an MMO but see the raids and leave shortly after investing their time over their summer etc.
I really want TBC to last a long time and understand people did invest that time back then as I stated I did too! but blizz started putting health warnings on loading screens to go outside and take breaks and changed the GM pvp farm so people didnt die at their keyboards.
I feel they didnt think this one through with the time they gave 
It’s possible, but nowhere near what it was. Have to kill with flamestrike and herd em with r1 blizz