I didn’t want to waste my time with one of your posts but you have improved a lot since your last thread where you asked for basically all cash shop services and retail features so here we go:
Something being optional doesn’t mean that thing is beneficial for the game.
If you have done it over and over again then you have level 60 characters already and you don’t need to level another one to play TBC.
People’s real life obligations is not a reason to dumb down the game and give everyone a shortcut. If you can’t play the game because of your irl limitations, and believe that I have been in the same situation for many years, be happy with the amount of time you can put in and stop asking for the company to hold your hand through every content.
If my real life obligations don’t allow me to practice the guitar more than 1 hour a day, I can’t go and ask metallica to have me in the band, do I? Then why do people that can’t spend any time for a video game should be given the end game content?
It matters, a lot. They save one or two weeks of downtime, which equals a lot more profits from botting, by simple economics, that equals more bots will enter the market to earn that profit.
And none is punishing anyone, people simply point out that this is an inevitable outcome of paid boosts, and since Blizzard doesn’t want to invest money into hiring GMs (they have been cutting off more and more from this in their record) there is no way that Actilizard can deal with a new influx of bots better than now.
Takes time and effort.
Buying gold (if you mean that) is against EULA and can get you banned. Plus, it is still a lot more expensive to buy gold to boost you all the way through, and still, you need to spend time in game.
The only reason is that we have seen what paid boosts have done to the game in WoD and we can rationally grasp how they will harm the game and its long-term playability.
It does affect the economy, thus affects every single individual playing this game.
I wonder why they agree with a boost, sweet lordie. Oh and by the way, not only that they “agree” with it, they also shove it down our throats.
A bot takes “a few days” to level but a normal legit player takes months to level? Very astonishing level of intelligence and flawless logic.
Then why is it also offered to players with level 60 characters already? Why not just make it available to only those without characters?
If you are talking about those 7 zones that come with outlands, don’t you worry, they will be filled to the absolute top all the time. They will in fact, be so full that you won’t be able to log in for hours and keep lagging out and crashing when you manage to log in.
Yet the other 49 zones in azeroth will be empty and not “filled with players”. You were talking about a live world weren’t you?
Actilizard is a gaming giant that has an enormous amount of money and WoW is one of the most monetized games in the world. They have a thousand times more money that they can spend on developing games right now. But even then, they keep firing more and more employees and automate everything. Insatiable greed.
Also, I don’t even believe them that this will bring them money, IN THE LONG TERM. All the paid services, etc. make money at first, for a few months, but in the long term, causes the game to be out of content earlier, make a lot of players quit earlier and lose profits in the long term. Proof? Check wow sub numbers and sub revenues before and after WoD expansion.