This is a message board, nobody here gets to decide anything. I could ask for all players to be recolored pink and it wouldn’t make a scrap of difference.
I am perfectly aware that I don’t get to decide how players play the game. The comment is irrelevant because I have absolutely no power to enforce my will, even if I wanted to.
The point is that I think that the pay-to-win boost will have devastating consequences for the game over the long term. Therefore I believe that your view that the ‘boost doesn’t matter’ is completely wrong, and I will continue to argue against it.
Problem is that people are unable to see further than the tip of their nose. They just want “more convenience”, because they are unable to think beyond that. They want instant gratification.
It’s a level 58 with not a lot else. Nothing about the boosted character is a win, if there even is such a thing in wow.
The issue is that through your arguments you are essentially saying only these certain groups of people can play. If a player doesnt meet the terms you argue for then they shouldn’t play?
It’s a bonus gold through having an additional character which can be used for professions, which makes you earn more gold, which allows you to buy BoEs, which is pretty important on the launch day for raiding and arena.
True, and if you do it by yourself it is fair. Unless we are talking about gold boosting through afk mage aoeing, then yeah it’s an issue, which also needs to be addressed in Classic+ and preferably in TBC too.
The boost isn’t “pay to win”.
You don’t get a lvl 70 character decked out in SWP BiS gear.
You get a dungeon-geared lvl 58 with a hamstring-mount, no professions, and probably not even enough gold to buy a single Flask. Compare that to the Mass of Naxx / AQ40 stacked capped characters people will flood HFP with when the portal pops open, and explain to me where exactly the “win” is situated.
It’s p2w in the context of casual/semihardcore players who didn’t bother to overprepare and can have additional profession alt by buying the boost. Which is important, since the kind of people who made an account full of lvlcapped profession alt characters is really small, and there are much more casual/semihardcore. And also in the context of absolutely crazy individuals who will buy multiple accounts to have a farm of boosted profession alts on different accounts.
I have, as of now, 4 Tailoring-Alts, prepared. My main is already respecced to Tailoring ofc. A 6th tailor will join them once the prepatch hits, because I will 60cap my Shaman before TBC release as well.
So let’s do the math:
The non-preparing player will have his main and 1 alt == 2
I will have my main and 5 alts. And that’s if I don’t use the boost myself == 6
Again, please tell me how the boosting player is “winning” here? At best he can make up some ground.
Because, I think, that no-lifer deserved this advantage for being a nolifer. If you would really want a justice for a casual you would just advocate for a fresh tbc server.
Yes, because world of warcraft is the escapism type of entertainment and the real life situation and resources should bleed in the game as little as possible. It doesn’t matter if a person could afford to sit behind the computer for this long, it matters because the person did it inside the game, not by shortcutting their progress by introducing real life recources.
You are decreasing the advantage you gain between you and a person who didn’t bother to level alts by themselves.