huge if true
I’m not entirely sure if it’s a total level squish or just Shadowlands by the way it is written.
Have to wait for more details on it.
What about the other levels then.
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Interesting since Heroic and Epic prepurchases come with level 120 character boost. If they then squish you just back to 50 it’s quite a scam. 
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Be interesting to see how this is going to work. I am liking it though.
That’s what makes me think it just for Shadowlands. Levelcap 60 in Shadowlands, Levelcap 120 everywhere else.
Also, if current max level characters start at 50, does that mean lower level characters start at a lower level? Possibly meaning you could enter Shadowlands at any level?
Well, not really since when your level is squish presumably you will be at the start of the expansion level range if you used the boost. Same difference 
Nah it will definetly affect the entire game. As Blizzard has put it: “Every Level Is Meaningful: Shadowlands will introduce a new leveling system, meant to provide a meaningful sense of advancement with every level achieved. Current max-level characters will begin Shadowlands at level 50 and work toward the new level cap of 60.”
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Then again whole 120 boost wouldn’t make much sense, cause it would be useless. On the other hand, whole squish qould be useless if you anyway gotta grind to level 120 first. (i personally don’t mind leveling but just pondering this because it all sounds so weird)
Perhaps in practise but as selling point whole boost thing then should have right number on it.
i think people are overthingking it
its 120 because it comes with pre purchase so people can use it now to get to 120
will change to 50 when prepatch hits.
alternatively it would be indeed 50-60 levels just in shadowlands but dont belive it.
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A level 120 boost would be a level 50 boost for Shadowlands then I guess?
We need more details!
That does make more sense. 
Really interested on how it will affect the whole world.
Yeaah like i mentioned i don’t mind leveling and such, not really using boosts because leveling is one of my favourite activities. It just sounds weird that they would actually sell something advertising 120 boost (with no remarks of it being squished) if they know it would not be staying. American companies are usually very sharp on how they sell things because people are quick to ask compensations.
Maybe, but would it really matter?
If 120 becomes 50 for everyone, than nothing changes really.
that is debatable.
without a doubt a lot of people will have nagative experiences just because blizzard is robbing them out of levels.
yes its “just a number” but for a lot of people its the most important number in game.,
if they wanted it to be 60 they would just play classic. instead dumbing down retail because people cannot cope with 130.
most likely leveling will feel as awefull as in classic due to it being extremly slow levels to get to 50. because i dont belive blizzard will speed it up .
my bet is it will take exackly as much time as getting to 120 in retail now. and for a lot of people it will scare them away from game.
we will wait and see but i already expect a lot of backlash because of it.
so what if you will get 1 skill point each time - when each level will take 4-6 hours to get.
andblizzard will without a doubt take a chance to slow it down even more to boost MAU.
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aslo last squishes dint fix any issues and still have problems from it even now.
And lvl squish needs far far more work and can mess up far more
I am pondering it PURELY on point of view of how it’s advertised. It should be written differently if it’s not 120 boost, because if they write is purely as “120 boost” and someone buys it based on that, they can ask their money back if they don’t get what is promised. I personally would have written it different way , for example “character boost to starting level of the Shadowlands” or such, where exact number for level is not said (if i would know 120 won’t stick).
In all likelihood it will be a boost to 50 once squish is implemented, so not really a scam at all.
Now —> Next Expansion.
120 --> 50.
Basically:
vannilla = 1 to 30.
TBC / Wotlk = 30 to 35.
Cata / MoP = 35 to 40.
WoD = 40 to 42½.
Legion = 42½ to 45.
BfA = 45 to 50.
Shadowland = 50 to 60.
If you have a lvl 80 alt now, it will not suddenly be “max lvl” (50) when this patch hit, it will proberly be around lvl 40 after the patch.
I bet each lvl will just take 2 time as long to get, compare to what you get now, meaning, it will just seems it take a bit longer for you to gain a lvl.
All in all, i dont expect this change to have a major impact on the game, the time it take you to get from 1 to 120 will be the same from 1 to 50 with the new expansion, its just the nr thats smaller, nothing else change.
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