Im almost convinced that people who dont see the need to have belf/draenei 60 or close to it by the time tbc launches dont have friends they intend to play with who are already 60.
It doesnt matter if youre casual or hardcore, nobody wants to feel like theyre behind even if their personal playstyle will cause them to fall behind. everyone wants to step foot into outland with their friends, not still be questing in searing gorge.
And the fact of the matter is, an extra week would just let people have fun in prepatch instead of feeling the pressure to level to 60 asap and get into as many raids as possible to get some kind of gear they might not replace instantaneously and burn themselves out.
These threads are why Blizz should have just kept it the way it was back in the day and have Draenei and Belfs available when the Portal opens and TBC officially launches.
No matter what players would find a reason to complain whether they gave us a month or just a week.
the problem is prepatch has no reason not to drop next week. nobody realistically expects blizzard to push tbc release back, but its within expectations to be brought forward.
Good post. Mine is actually pretty simple. I would like 1 additional week with the prepatch skills in the Classic setting :). Seems like a good time to me lol.
It was an absolute shock to me that they decided to go with a 2 week pre-patch. That combined with the 58 boost cost makes it very obvious they did it for the money.
A number of people who may have leveled normal will now pay for the boost.
Youāre right thereās no reason they canāt release it this week, but they wonāt. Corporate has spoken. Theyāll piss everyone off without blinking to make a buck then pretend they donāt want to make some minor changes because it will hurt the game.
Blizzard, few things you could do would hurt the game more than focusing on the money to the extent that you obviously are. Itās disgusting.
Lol well screw them. They will get their gear with the same amount of of gameplay or most likely less in pre patch. P6 grand marshal or hwl is a meme anyway
āSo you can play with your friendsā has been used to justify some horrible retail changes over the past few years, and big surprise, most of them have been a net negative to the game and even abused for the purpose of twinking and ganking (see: party sync)
Yes, no company ever introduces a microtransaction and then doesnāt want you to buy it. This might seem obvious to most people, but youād be surprised how often people will ignorantly pull the tired old ātinfoil hat!ā card when the idea that the dev team is intentionally doing things to encourage paid boosting is brought up. Itās not a conspiracy, itās proven and obvious business behavior.
Iām not trying to justify it lol. I just see blizzard for what they are and am no longer bothered by it. You canāt be surprised when you expect the worst.
Oh, sorry, I wasnāt meaning that as a rebuke toward you. Itās just that you raised those two points which Iād been meaning to comment on for a while and thought now was the time. Nothing against you.