Yeah this.
Having early access doesn’t ruin anything for me, and it is always included in the editions I would buy anyway. 
People need to wake up so here it is
anyone think 3 days headstart is not an advantage because blizzard locks everything during that 3 days period is kind of delusional.
In 3 days you can level up 3-4 characters and when everyone can start playing you already have let’s say 4 lv 80’s ready to do stuffs with while everyone else just steps into the first zone with their lv 70 character.
Leveling alts take a long time and having more max lv characters is extremely powerful in pretty much every expansion.
The amount of min maxing you can do is crazy high. How is this not an advantage?
Everyone banging on about Early Access ruining the economy & giving players advantages seem to have forgotten that Rare drops, Mythic dungeons, Weekly Quests, and Profession cooldowns will be unavailable until after the official launch and weekly reset.
And what will you then do with these chars? Most of what you can aim for is gold making through gathering professions, try to get a small headstart on getting up other professions and maybe have 3 additional days, if that, of running HC dungeons for loot.
The 2 weeks before season start is there specifically to level up the chars you want and get them somewhat started on things like rep grinding and getting some initial gear.
There’s no real in game advantage to speak of that merits this degree of outrage about it. The main problem is more so on the social side of things and how some may feel left out for 3 - 5 days if they tend to hang out with a particular friend group that bought into early access.
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Im really happy that early access is happening. It will give me an entire weekend to play wheras i usually could only play after i finish work.
It well worth whatever it costs, not that i even knew about it when i bought it, all i saw was new expansion and i had already bought it 
Yep. Many people are going to pay for early access because spending less is essentially getting late access. I’ll be one of them - I hate it, but I will.
It’s a dirty way to raise the cost of the base game, preying on FOMO and anxiety to drive people to throwing money at a problem that didn’t need to exist. The benefits of EA in a long-term game like WoW really don’t outweigh the harm done.
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We have to thank Microsoft for this. They have a lot money to recover.
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Nope as far as I understand. All you can do is level up and explore. I am not sure about gathering professions but for everything else it will all be locked for the 3 days.
A new day a new thread crying about the same thing 9 months later. I’m surprised they are still complaining
Exactly. I don’t think the 3 days are a deal breaker or game changing and it is not going to be what everyone expected. I betcha the new threads after the launch are going to be " I feel cheated".
sincerely i dont care about it. so is "rest of us except Tèsla.
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I’m not sure if you got the memo, but LIFE. JUST. ISN’T. FAIR.
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If professions are blocked, I really see more advantages than disadvantages.
Reading the replies here i can tell most if not all of them are solo players. “Just don’t watch youtube to not get spoiled” “there’s no advantage in so its fine”
When you have friends you play with ingame or/and discord, or even a guild, you essentially have to socially isolate for 3 days or pray that you won’t get spoiled on all the new flavor and story a new expansion brings out on release that everyone is so hyped about they WILL share about it (understandably so).
Not everyone gets their WoW related things from only youtube and streamers lol.
And on top of that, the fact no one even mentions the joy of getting to play together on launch with other people, esp ones you know, is telling of their priorities.
It’s an MMORPG, not everything is about the “advantages” and whatever, it’s also about the flavor and social aspect, which is story and friends. Both of which get negatively affected by this early aka late access business move, because the story will probably end up getting spoiled for you due to others hype playing already, and you can’t start with everyone at the same time, be it ppl you know or just everyone on your server in general…
Inb4 “pay up or shut up and just dont have friends lol”
OP: there’s alot of ppl happy to pay extra to then go justifiy to themselves and berate others on the forum who can’t or don’t want to for whatever reason, that’s how it goes here, but i agree with your post
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This is what folks can not see. Everything, and again I don’t know about gathering professions, will be locked.
All you have 3 days later is a bunch of level 80’s.
Then when the game opens for everyone we all get to do what’s unlocked. Leveling for those, Professions and HC dungeons.
Folks levelling can level up the characters and professions. Then 10 September the season starts.
It’s because it’s a highly controversial topic and discussions need to be had about it.
The general population (at least in the West) are getting extremely tired of money being able to buy you advantages. From better private education to better, quicker healthcare as far as being more likely to get let off for a crime due to being able to chuck money at the best lawyers in the world.
I realise WoW is small fry compared to the above but it’s just another symptom of the problem.
I’ve managed to completely wean myself off the FOMO teat in recent years so I don’t give a crap about this but I COMPLETELY understand why it’s angering people so much.
After the scandals, the lies, bringing Metzen back (who knew about it all and did nothing) coupled with Diablo, OW2, etc, Blizzard have a LONG way to go before I deem them deserving of anything extra beyond the base price for their products at this point so it’s all they’re getting off me.
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I don’t see it as a massive let down, though I get the criticism. On a lighter note, perhaps it will help spreading players a bit and have a slightly less rough start with lag and overcrowding. I for one will play the first available weekend after release, the only thing I’m a little sad about is that feeling of all the players waiting for it to start, but it’s not that big of a deal (and when DF started, we couldn’t actually get to the dragon isles for quite a long time because the ship was broken, so I ended up starting a few days later anyway).
Ure own choice if u see at a streamers stream tbh so u are only responsible for ruining your Fun, i also have Beta access but i dont even play on it just for that. Only aspect i do is testing classes.
I have already learned from many other games that this early access, honestly, is more of a performance test than a game itself. You already had a lot of fun with Hogwarts Legacy when the game was very unplayable and it was only at the premiere that a patch was released that fixed most of it.
And you feel calmer afterwards, because there are no such wild crowds in every place you can see, and it’s simply more enjoyable to play.
You’re assuming there will be bugs, that people will exploit farms and that blizz won’t punish them. That’s a lot to assume.
I’m certain blizz won’t make this mistake again or that players will be stupid enough to try their luck and hope it doesn’t end in a ban.