Why the level 58 boost is bad for the game #stoptheboost

I agree on this, but there is also this thing called choice.

I’m not interested in some heated debate in which results in namecalling and toxic behaviour, but I agree: Tokens should be removed from retail, everything else may stay for all I care.

I’d go one step further and remove boosts too but yeah. We can leave the discussion here. I’m much more concerned with the matter of the 58 boost in tbc rn.

I wish you the best of luck, but I honestly think you will be just fine :wink:

Whole idea of Classic was to get away from retail game design. Back to the time when journey mattered more than end-game, where levelling was the game, where conveniences were few. And now some people here saying how levelling is boring and this a reason to add the boost? Quite frankly - and I say that unironically - go to retail. It has boosts, fast levelling and sounds like something far more suited to this kind of mindset.

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But it’s not old Azeroth nor is it Old Outland.
It’s Shadowlands and it has poor gamedesigns within the game.

It’s not a representation of Vanilla wow and Vanilla TBC.

I dont want to see boost in classic or tbc classic, whole point of classic was to get that oldschool mmorpg aspect back without paid services

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You think our main problem is 58 boost, really?
There are thousands of leveling bots in game.
They get/sell max level chars without playing too. At least boost is legal (!).
Change the subject #stopthebots

Of course i don’t like 58 boost thing but i can understand blizzard’s point of view.

The problem is people’s attitude when it comes to dollars.
There are 45362 topics on front page for 58 boost. But 0 for botting atm.

Botting and boosting are not mutually exclusive. Boosting is a very small part of the main problem. Extensive botting and RMT has many negative effects on every aspects of the game.

And what do you think will happen when grateful botters are given the chance to make huge armies of instant, Outland-ready, L58 bots? No need to waste time and profit by levelling them - straight to the action, straight to the farming…

Right now the most prolific botters must be rubbing their hands in glee at the news of this boost. It must feel like Christmas has come early for them.

My prediction is that each main botter will make around 20 accounts, and boost 20 characters to 58, and then unleash all 20 into the world on a variety of servers. It may be more than 20, it all depends upon their predicted incomes, which you can be sure will be calculated well in advance.

There’s, at a decent guess, maybe 50 prolific bot farms in operation right now, along with a few minor ones. If all 50 bot farms make 20 instant bots each, and unleash them immediately upon Outland… well do the maths.

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If the bots actually do buy the boost en masse (which i doubt due to them having to frontload money which seems unlikely unles they can do some scummy stuff like the dirtcheap south american subs) blizzard will actually have incentive to ban bots. because they will keep using the 58 boost.

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which they can and even if they couldn’t it’d still be more efficient then levelling.

this makes sense in a vacuum but it ignores one important fact. It takes resources to properly enforce the game’s rules and resources = money. Blizzard will have to hire people and actually invest development time into classic which they seem unwilling to do especially with the further lay offs that have occurred recently.

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If Blizzard wants to screw us then they will, it’s naive to expect (current) Blizzard to do anything (classic WoW) without making money off of it. If it stays with the announced boosts then thats a fair compromise to me.

In an ideal world (of warcraft classic) there are no boosts, but this aint that.

I just had a mental image of Blizzard constantly banning boost-buying bots and bots constantly buying boosts in a never ending circle… They’d be making more money from that than from actual subs xD

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if blizzard actually did that, botters just wouldn’t buy them so it wouldn’t actually pay off for blizz in the end.

I know, but it was funny to imagine :stuck_out_tongue:

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So you’re saying there is a chance where legit ppl benefit from the boost, blizz benefitting from the boost, and bots getting banned.
Told you all your panicking was uncalled for.

The fact that ppl even defend the level 58 boost is baffling to me.

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when did I say this?

ikr

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If you really want to play tbc you would have levelled a character, I mean you really want to play it, but you are lazy and can’t care less so you buy it. That is the whole thing behind it.

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Its not even as much as defending as it is to be realistic enough to realise that nothing is for free,if we all want blizzard to take a more hands on approach on handling the bots ingame (i do too) then it is imo understandable that they implent certain (limited) options.

NOTHING happens for free, especially not at 2021 blizzard