have i heard it right there is likely to be a one time paid boost option?
bah sucks i wanted a alliance shaman!
i’m really not surprised they are gonna offer the boosts considering how much money it generates in Retail.
They excluded the 99% character boost targets in the form of new races. And it’s one per account.
So the boost will be exclusively for Drenny/Belfs?
sure nearly everyone will make a warlock or hunter now 
No. Boost can’t be used on them. Only on old races. They heavily intend it for people not having anything for TBC.
OH okay my brain read that prior message as only fresh TBC toons could be boosted.
I’ll boost either way because I love druid’s but can’t stand leveling them.
Did you not get enough boosting from Mages already?
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this is slightly faster
Deeply concerning.
If this is deeply concerning to you then your life is going pretty good bud.
Its a video game which is built to make money so it’ll happen sooner or later tbh.
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Does it not already make money? I don’t understand what this mid-wit point is meant to be. Could you flesh your argument out a little more perhaps? Is it really as simple as, X has a purpose to make money, therefor any means to produce money must therefor happen?
They should ask for all of your gold for that boosting. Too add some realism.
That’s a dumb statement, even considering that it comes from you.
First of all, you could always buy another account. I know multiple people who pay for 2-4 even now.
Moreover, it’s going to cause the faction imbalance to get even worse. In addition to that, blood elf isn’t even desirable for any class expect when it comes to paladins (since it’s the only race on horse with paladin as a choice available).
We will see how it’s going to turn out, I guess. As I’ve mentioned in another thread, you could always buy gold and get boosted in dungeons, but introducing a official way is even worse.
So sure Classic makes money but Blizzard have their own goals as to how much they want it to be making and if its not meeting those goals then they will look into what they can do to make more money.
Retail brought in Pets/Mounts/Boosts/transmog sets etc etc and that brought Retail’s wealth generation up and beyond what it used to be regardless of the subscriptions they’ve lost over the years.
Classic has the exact same situation but they are far more lenient on it as they know how defensive the playerbase is and your the perfect example as the mere thought of a one time boost is deeply concerning to you so they very likely won’t go as indepth for money generation methods as they would for retail.
Classic essentially generates its own subset of people who pay for subscriptions because its uncommon for Classic players to also be heavily engaged into retail and vice versa so if they see Classic’s numbers dropping they will implement more cash incentives to bring players back.
I’d now like to throw the question back to you as what you find deeply concerning about a simple one time boost?
We are getting Dranei and Belfs at the pre patch. Yay!
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The concern, naturally as I’m sure you are aware is the standard that is set by introducing such a thing. Obviously if we want to be deeply semantic about ‘Deep concern’ Relative to the crushing weight of existence, purpose and the universe it’s not really.
However, the Purpose of Classic wow was to go back to an era of the game that was different, not only in game play, design but also monetization. So naturally the first crack in the wall being something like a level boost, it makes one wonder where the new line will be defined for monetization in a ‘museum piece’ version of the game.
When making an argument , it is worth attacking ideas, not people; this is elementary. I expect that to be something mutual between rational minds.
WoW classic was indeed to go back to a bygone era of the game but by no means does that mean that the company can afford to operate in the way it did back then.
As much as I love WoW I understand that they have a job to Keep the lights on as it were so ofc first and foremost profit is their goal.
It maybe that adding WoW shop into Classic causes them to lose money due to lost subs but that would only snowball the effect as they are pretty well known for doubling down on bad idea’s but in the same realm WoW Classic is ran by an entirely different team so for all we know this could literally be the only P2W aspect added to the game.
Their reasoning for adding the boosts is absolutely valid aswell because its not meant to be for players who have been playing for the past 2 years but its for players who want to jump into TBC and skipped Classic entirely so it won’t affect the classic servers at all as they explained that TBC/Classic will be completely seperate.