So blizzard messed up with who gets it, but instead of giving it to everyone those who got the boost while still having an active sub will get a 30 day ban for “exploiting” i bet 
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I reckon they used RNG for the boosts lol
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I don’t really see the problem. This is a widely used business practice across many platforms. Newspapers (online or paper) and streaming-services often offer so and so many months free if you resubscribe.
It’s the same tactic used by other retail stores. Put a TV at a discount, luring people to come to the store and while they are there they also buy a vacuum cleaner and a new coffee maker.
Could they have offered a 100 boost to everyone with an active subscription instead? (thus including those tho choose to resubscribe) Yeah, sure, but it really doesn’t bother me that they didn’t.
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only until the system catches up with you…it finally caught up with me so i had to use my gold to be a bad penny…not here for the game or to run it qown…just…well…i’d miss you all…weird. i know…but hey that’s me…
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I play their games since warcraft 2 times, joined battle.net with diablo 2, I play WoW since March 2005, I have all their games (well, almost)… but still a bunch of people who do not even care about a game and stopped playing years ago get a boost while me, a loyal customer get a reskin store mounts for 15 (?) bucks.
This is a spit in the face, blizzard.
The final nail in a coffin of my loyalty.
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I love me some solid rocks.
But the fanboys will still claim the game is alive and not totally dying at all. If this isn’t thirsty for retail subs I don’t know what is. Next thing you know if you only play classic you get boosts every few months, cause classic cannot be milked.
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How dare you support the game ?
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Seems I don’t need a sub to post 
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A returning player claims this and then pays a sub to play, current players who sub gains nothing. It is effectively free since both sides are paying a sub at the end of it and the character boost is normally a paid for service which the returning player has now been gifted this by Blizzard.
In the end, its just a way to entice people into returning but still requires 20 lvls to play the end game content with said boosted character.
Are you just going to keep coming back to the forums to let people know you’ve quit? You clearly have a hard time letting go.
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Had the same, I could post for half a year past sub on these new forums. And now with sub it got temporary revoked because forums thought I had no time lmao.
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If this is confirmed then I’m very disappointed but not at all surprised. I too think that Blizzard should gift the boosts to all currently subscribed players, as well as those who resubscribe within the time window.
I have been paying my sub without break since 2005 and my thank you is to see those who have quit and not contributed to the game in years getting free boosts while all I get is a “LoL, we got your money sucker!” as a thanks for my 14 years of subs.
Great job Blizz. You need to timewalk yourselves back to 2005 and relearn subscriber appreciation.
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You clearly don’t have the willpower to quit fully since you keep coming to the forums 
You’ll be back and you know it
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Doesn’t surprise me at all.
Yet I can hear all the fanboys/girls already screaming it’s totally normal and fine.
As far as I’m concerned Blizzard have lost any and all ‘player connection’ much like they have with the rest of their games.
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Cheap move blizz no one will play it again except your exisiting community, instead of supporting your present supports you do this:clap:
WoW players struggle to come to terms with, or are in outright denial, that Activision and Blizzard are one in the same. They have been since the merger in 2008, and the company was christened Activision Blizzard as a result.
Players will see no evil and believe ‘Blizzard’ can do nothing wrong, and when they do, it’s a one-off. Yet they would find what Activision is doing in Call of Duty and what they did to Bungie/Destiny to be absolutely egregious. Indefensible. They would attribute that to Activision, and not Blizzard.
It’s really quite bizarre how people will consider them two separate entities. Vehemently defending one, and not the other. I don’t even know why people still refer to them AS Blizzard.
In any case, these sort of practices should come as a shock to nobody. It’s really quite tame as far as Activision goes. Still, it should be called out each and every time, lest we invite in the devil that is Bobby’s (CEO) insatiable greed.
Next thing we know, Mythic Raids will be removed and we’ll be buying lootboxes for the best gear instead. And if you think that’s hyperbolic, the most OP gun in CoD is inside a lootbox. Don’t be naïve and complacent. Be highly cynical instead.
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That’s just bs. I want a free boost. Not stone mounts. Ugh. Eyeroll.
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They lost that years ago however I still enjoy playing and so I will continue to state that I enjoy playing.
To be fair there is fairly reliable evidence to state that over the course of the last 15 years there have been over 100 million different players subscribe to WoW and yet here we are with 5-10% of that number now and even the heights was only 10-15% of that number. We also still have new and returning players making threads in the forums so not entirely unjustified move by Blizz from a marketing perspective.
Plus all they are also pinning their hopes on some of the ‘Classic’ players returning to the full game now they are willing to part with their hard earned money to play Classic rather than play it for free on P servers.
WoW players are in denial to think that Blizzard was ever this benevolent entity that would put players over profit in any of their games ever. They may not have been quite so bottom line focused as they are now but to say that players came before profits at any stage of the development of the company is rose tinted glasses time.
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You can celebrate by buying 2 (TWO!!!) new store mounts for only €25. Feels great, doesn’t it?
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Or if you were lucky, flush and had a significant other who was too far away to tell you you couldn’t buy it, you could also get the 15 year anniversary collectors edition.