Expansions and sub cost are the same thing, a cost to have an active account.
You might argue expansions make it more costly, which yes it does. But if sub prices were raised to equivalent the prices of expansions + subs in earlier time, then it wouldn’t necessarily be so.
Which means that you miss the message. Blizz said before:
People WANT to buy multiple boosts and we don’t want them to HAVE TO PAY extra money on extra accounts to buy more boosts.
Today:
We don’t care about that anymore we just want money.
Nowadays, people are more conditioned to microtransactions, getting what they want right now, not knowing that commitment is part of the reason why they play and that its value is reduced whenever there is a way to progress through the wallet rather than through the game.
And Blizzard is exploiting that, and even cattering to tourists.
Can you please read the thread before commenting things like that. I don’t want boosts and I even explicitly said it above. However, I demand a company to be consistent with their arguments if they are using those arguments to change the game that I love. And blizz is one of the most inconsistent gaming companies I have ever seen, at least after Cata when it was clear they shifted greatly to the casual demand instead of the community.
Because you aren’t meant to buy multiple boosts in classic TBC.
They’ve already stated their reason for the boost(so peoples friends can just jump in)
If you’re paying for multiple subscriptions just to purchase multiple boosts, then is that not your own fault?
But you aren’t purchasing an expansion for the boost.
Which is what they stated in that statement.
No, I am categorically stating that more potential players is a good thing. Nobody would start playing a game their friends play if the barrier to entry was an average of 240 hours of old style content on their own as thei friends progressed. If some of these new people who boost to 58 stay and enjoy the game with us, that can only be a good thing.
Man you are really dense in all threads I see you. I am sorry to insult you like this but I don’t know what else to say, the double standards is so obvious.
Even in their recent announcement as you said the boost is meant for friends to catch up. So then why is it offered to people who already have a lvl 60? It’s meant to make money and they make up whatever reason they want.
Barrier to entry? The barrier to entry to TBC is the game itself. You create an account, you start at level 1, that’s the GAME. TBC starts at level 1, not at level 58.
Nothing prevents people from leveling characters now, or wait until TBC pre-patch to level characters to level 58-60, and they would be ready. The real barrier to entry here is the laziness and lack of commitment.
Lack of commitment expressed through the boost since it’s a way of progression through wallet and not through the game itself, which by definition reduces the value of the game.
You say dense because I don’t agree with you. Wouldn’t the world be a terrible place if we all agreed? I agree Blizzard’s position here was misrepresented and it is in fact to make more money. Blizzards making more money though is not a bad thing.
What if you have a level 60 on a realm where your friends no longer play and you want to play with people on a different realm or faction, but as a different class?
There’s no problem with skipping what is now irrelevant content, spending a few days played looking at the wall in Mara waiting for each boost run to end is not exactly riveting content, paying to bypass this is not the end of the world.
To be specific you wrote realm and faction. I responded to the realm part of it as there is no solution to the faction part. But as I said previously, if you play with your “friends” on different faction during all of Classic, then you can play with each other still, just be a decent “friend” and boost your new mate up a little when he joins, takes a day or two and with the reduced xp needed to level it will easily be done in the first week of pre-patch. So there really is no problem here.
Dense for what reason exactly?
The level 58 boost is meant to be one time only.
It’s not meant to be used multiple times for the same person.
If you choose to make another account to boost, that is your issue.
Most players only have one account.
The real question is why does me boosting to 58, getting crap gear and no professions really impact your gaming experience? What benefit do you get out of forcing someone to endure content they do not want to play?
its not only 1 times is it?
botters will have a blast
and tbh the majority of the player base has more than 1 account and wouldnt think twice to boost on every account
Yes, but it’s meant to one time only, it’s why I’ve suggested for the boost to be available for like 1 week only.
As I said, it’s meant to be for one time only.
If you choose to purchase another subscription to purchase another boost, then it’s your own issue.
You aren’t purchasing another expansion
Blizzard has stated this time, it’s only meant to be a one time thing(As opposed to WoD’s one)
I don’t care about that and that wasn’t what we were discussing. Boost how much you want. But nice change of topic instead of acknowledging the fault in your arguments.
