I have more of a cross skull actually
Tell me when I should start laughing.
well if I were you I’d be laughing already, at myself.
You called me thick when you can’t even spell. touché…
As an Italian you can immagine how much I care about it.
But everyone else has to?
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just reply with a clownface to one of his troll posts. it “thicks” him off.
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gotta love the “please kill yourself” line.
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You will make your family a favor if you do it monke.
Parrydodger,
Do you think that the vast majority of players are new to the game? And therefore won’t know the Class they boost?
Or do you think they have played the game before, even if it is retail, and know the class?
I am of the opinion that there will be very few players who use a boost that haven’t played before, and probably most have played quite a lot.
Since it’s not free most new players won’t use it like in retail, mostly only seasoned players will use it to bypass 58 levels. Still, it’s only 58, not 70.
I have been levelling a Hunter recently and I press two or three buttons during levelling, I only use one more to change aspect with a macro. Do you think I’m a bad player as I only need to use two or three abilities during a simple mob fight?
I have loads of skills I don’t use, like the drain mana sting, whose name I can’t even remember.
Forcing someone to level does not make a player better, especially for dungeons. All of this is moot anyway as they are adding it whether you like it or not. You can express your displeasure and argue against it all you want.
It’s coming…
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The boost might actually draw people in who are afraid that if they have to start from level 1 and will be too far behind.
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I think the OP sees them all as useless players or botters who don’t match up to his elitism.
I think the OP is mostly wanting to point out that boosts will be used by bots more then players.
The RaF program is a great way to reduce bots and also help out friends that join at any stage in the game.
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No but I do think that the vast majority of people who feel like they need a boost to play TBC will be new to TBC specifically.
You don’t have to be new to wow as a whole to not know every class. I’ve never played priest in over 10 years for example.
Some players could also be experienced but rusty (haven’t played classic or private servers in ages)
it isn’t free in retail either. I don’t know if this assumption is fair. New players may be affluent IRL and so don’t mind cashing out 50 bucks whereas existing classic players may have only been able to play because classic is just a sub fee and nothing else (no box cost). I also think that many new and returning players who don’t have a 60 will feel compelled to buy the boost (it will almost feel essential) because a lot of people, even when they aren’t in the top percentile of players, like to feel competitive and don’t like to feel behind. Hell, that’s why I think some people are attempting to justify the boost. They’re scared of falling behind (despite the fact that within a few hours of launch they will anyway).
I’m glad you brought up hunter. Now, I don’t like anecdotes but I’m going to use one here just as an example (not saying this applies to all players because it happened in my anecdote). I recently got my sister into world of warcraft, and I introduced here to the game through classic. Her solo character is a level 22 night elf hunter. When she got aspect of the cheetah, she was very happy because she could run faster and she doesn’t like running for a long time. However, she kept it on all the time (not knowing about the daze effect) and thus would get dazed all the time. After she figured this out, she started to swap between her aspects. This is an example of how levelling gives new players an opportunity to learn the nuances of their class. This is just 1 example in my experience.
You only know that you only should use 2-3 attacks though because of your pre-existing knowledge and depth of understanding when it comes to the game. New players don’t have such a luxury. It also isn’t good game design to rely upon or expecting ur players to do external research (wowhead, guides etc…).
It won’t make them amazing but it is all part of the learning curve.
weird flex?
And I think you are trying to cheaply discredit and misrepresent my arguments
I think it is as when you bought the last few expansions you got a free boost and two of the three versions of SL have one that’s much cheaper.
@Parrydodger: That is a very interesting take on things, especially since multiple people keep telling me that TBCC population will be a MAJORITY that specifically wants TBCC, because they played the original TBC and do NOT want to play Classic. This would mean that a majority of the boosters would also be people, who are not new, but specifically buy it to skip Classic as much as possible. Considering the fact that a lot more people played the original TBC than Vanilla, it is even entirely possible that those players are correct.
Aren’t you the one that asked for motw in retail?
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Yeah I stopped playing retail in 2018 because it sucked, logged in once in 2020 to do LFR, asked for motw to a druid, then he asked me “what is that?” because he was boosted.
Which even if I didn’t check what happened to every classes’ ability after I quit the game and started classic, still proves my point, because if he wasn’t boosted his response would be “thats a pvp talent now”. So a level 120 druid doing a max level raid not knowing one of his spells is the issue, dear level 12 forum troll.
I wasn’t replying to you since you are an obvious one, but you keep repeating this because you have absolutely no valid arguments about the main issue and try to nitpick 2 words from a long post and take it to a personal level. Because you know as much as everyone else that you are wrong and you only want to get boosted because you can’t play the game on even terms/equal opportunity.
MMO games are supposed to give everyone a “new world” where everyone wins by commitment and skill, not determined by how much money you have irl and can spend it on a game.
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He probably thought the same of you and just ignored you. I’m not against the boost, and I have yet to see any factual argument to not implement it at TBCC launch. All I see is opinions.
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Nah, we kept talking, he asked me where to find it, I asked him to open his spellbook and look for it, he told me “theres no spell like that” then he said “I’m new to the game, I don’t know about that spell”. He didn’t ignore me, I tanked the whole LFR with my DK tank where one third of the group was fully afk the entire raid, another third was boosted, there was oldschool players who came in as tourists like me to see what battle for dazaralor raid looks like and there was 1-2 good dpsers that carried the raid.
Pretty much what happens in most LFRs in retail.
what is this majority you speak of? the 10 loud chicks on this forum, or players playing classic only, that didn’t receive invite for poll?
I only saw the poll in screenshots on reddit.