Thanks for answearing my question that you rather see the game die then get new blood in.
Not that i would agree to it. But i guess that is your choice. P.s a lot of new players who bought boost ended up enjoying it so they started leveling alts. But screw them also i guess.
In other words, new players don’t even need a boost.
Great to hear.
You still appear confused. When did I claim it wasn’t a prediction?
Why have you made no attempt to answer my question. If anyone is moving goalposts it’s you?
What am I supposed to be owning up to? You’re not making any sense.
Good , pls do not play .
I bet blizzard has an absolute blast reading through all these threads
were entertaining them more than they’re entertaining us at this point
blizzard " next person to say the word toxic everyone takes a shot of vodka "
I so much want to buy a boost for this exact reason.
@All: Thing is… ALL decisions have some sort of consequences, some very minor, others huge. As far as boosts are concerned, there are actually multiple different conditions that exist concurrently and mostly independently from each other…
A) People who do not want a boost and can not afford one.
B) People who want a boost, but can not afford one.
C) People who do not want a boost even though they could afford one.
D) People who want a boost and can afford one.
E) People who are personally indifferent towards the boost regardless of their financial status.
F) People who belong to groups A and C and also wish others could not acquire one.
G) People who belong to groups B and D and are also ok with others acquiring one.
H) Subgroups of E, people who still have a preference between others being / not being able to use boosts.
Now, with so many different situational options it is highly probable that the groups are not of identical size and several posters have made very different predictions about this.
Ideally speaking, it would (probably) be best, if there were both boost allowed and boost not allowed realms. Sadly from some (many?) people’s point of view, this is unlikely to happen. Blizzard decided to make boosts available. This decision meant that certain people elected to buy one. Some of those people are only playing, because the boost became available. At the same time, some people elected to not play (TBCC), because they do not like the boost. Thing is… At least I fully admit that I have absolutely no idea, which group is bigger… nor exactly how that specific split affects the game both short and long term… Blizzard most likely had some people run many different kinds of scenarios through and we all ended up where we are now.
As to the future… I just wish that people were able to co-exist relatively peacefully regardless of their views on the boosts.
On a purely personal level… I am not rich, but if I desperately wanted a boost, I could acquire one. However, I am one of those people who like levelling. So, I will level up in retail, classic and TBCC and along the way, try to treat my fellow players in a manner I would prefer to get treated myself… with respect as a fellow human being. I will also attempt to have fun on the way, because if I ever reach a point, where I feel I am not having fun / learning new things / making new comrades at arms / friends at least some of the time, it is then time to call quits. So far, over 13 years have passed and I have not yet hit that point. I am not a great player in terms of achievements nor skill and I know some people feel that my very presence (in BGs / dungeons) is detrimental to their fun in the game… and I am sorry about that.
TLDR: Please try to get along with your fellow players. Thank you!
The only thing disgusting here is you calling other people inbreds for buying a 1 per account boost. Classy and mature fella. Another shining example of how nice some of the Classic community are.
Intolerant people like you make me want to buy 10 boosts just to make you cry more an eventually leave
How come we still have fascist mindsets around in this day and age where people are being “hunted down” even in a videogame just because they don’t play it how some insignificant minority say it should be done…
I love that one of the main reasons people will tell you classic is better than retail is because “community” is important and people are less toxic than retail.
Guess you can take the player out of retail but not the retail out of the player.
Roll on 2nd of June.
Anyone who boosted will either have replaced their communal items or will very quickly in tbc content and will go undetectable.
Only the absolute Chad’s will be noticeable running around on their deluxe edition mounts.
Wow, some people here…and I thought League was toxic
I’m surprised how many people don’t get it that people disrespect them because they buy into Activisions practices.
Because of these people we have this mtx plague.
Boosts / QoL Features in games, especially MMORPGs, are the worst way to make money because it sacrifices gameplay for every non-payer, to give payers a reason to buy the QoL in the first place.
There are also many other reasons on top you can broadly research.
I don’t know what you smoked that you come up with fascist mindsets but you gotta chill out
Because its either you play how someone else dictates it or you will be excluded from groups or called inbred which is among the nicer terms I’ve read and heared others refer to people that bought the boost
And how exactly is gameplay “sacrificed” for non payers? Did I miss something and they removed all the low level content?
Saying you’d like to pay 300 € just to make someone leave ? Seems you are actually worse than the people you blame.
Probably because the “Classic Community” is actually a lot of groups that disagree on some level, and they need something to complain about to get that feeling of unity. First it was “#NoChanges!!1!1!!”, then “No addonz!!1!1!!” and it just kept going.
If someone tries to dictate how you should play the game - probably best to just ignore them and move on.
Amazingly all servers I connect to, players that are actually “real” classic ones are spamming boosting services for gold.
I am a veteran wow player and been playing since vanilla launch. Whatever you have done now in classic, that you feel proud about, I did 16 years ago. So when people talk about cheapening the experience because some guys use the 58 boosted toons I can’t help but smile at the hypocrisy when I see the amount of spam for boosts and GDKP and the like, so far from what vanilla used to be.
If you feel hurt by 58 boosted toons, take a chill pill, go out. In all likeliness you wont see those people in July.
Those boosting are going to be mostly gold farmers and multi-boxers. Boosted characters is the least of what they are doing. I’m not bothered since it’s a one off and boosted characters isn’t changing anything in-game really, just players running about. But boosting and all that rubbish is something in the game, not a paid service by Blizzard.
GDKP was actually in Vanilla, it was just really rare since I think the community generally weren’t interested in that kind of playstyle. Now though, lazy and selfish people just want total convenience to do the least possible effort to then delude themselves that they made it when they max out. Gaming has to be one of the most depressing industries in the world.
This is one of the most inaccurate statements I have ever seen.
Less of the psychoanalysis Sigmund, and more realisation that people who buy into these hideous new paid services are actively damaging the integrity of Classic. The more they do it, the worse it will get, because Blizzard WILL keep adding more if booster kids keep buying them.
It’s particularly annoying because, by the very nature of booster kids, they won’t stay for the most part, and when they get bored, Classic will be left forever ruined by them. That is, until Wrath comes out and things get even worse, as in FAR worse.
Why are we in a better position to argue our side? Well, because of the absurdity in trying to make Classic more like Retail when Retail still exists. It really wouldn’t take much more of a push until the two are effectively the same pay-to-boost or pay-to-look-pretty.
The entire point of Classic was to get away from cash shops and all that awfulness. We don’t go to Retail and expect them to remove boosts.
Spit on then- that’s nothing. If I was any self-respecting guild master I’d kick people out the guild who buy them or the mount for that matter.