I remember when that was posted was like good job but I knew eventually with the casual game that was happening with MOP that it would eventually lead to this. RIP good times in wow. Its a business though and they want to make more money so their doing what they think will help them get the most $$$ but it might turn out negative impact in the end who knows.
This option doesn't change how they spend your time or money. 6+ months isn't soon I guess, the expansion is old and pretty much over though, nothing new is coming out and the current stuff is several months old. As of right now you can boost one toon per account so there is a limit. Depending on the feedback and blowback from this I am sure they will certainly look at letting people pay the $60 that was place marked for a character boost someday.
"Privilege is invisible to those who have it."
I never got why people try to defend Blizzard's recent cash-grabbing direction even when such blatantly obvious contradictions are presented. It's like witnessing indocrination. I love their games, but that doesn't mean they don't screw up every now and then.
Buying a 90 is not someone playing the character for you. Case closed.(meaning someone plays the character for you)
All these services are there to counter ones that people are already using, I'm not sure why people are surprised this is just effectively cutting out 3rd party companies more and more and making things safer for players.
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It is not marketing department.The above is a link to a Blue Post from a Blizzard rep. explaining how skipping content in this fashion ruins the game.
Right now blizz don't like to blue post, instead posts are made by PR department.
Blizzard's loyal fanbase and Blizzard themselves have been, to a point, galvanized by a lot of very harsh and unwarranted criticism over the years. People don't take criticism of the company's actions seriously anymore because it's been so unnecessarily vitriolic in the past.
This time, however, the outrage is justified in my opinion.
Why does everyone act like Blizzard is a collective hive mind? Blames the fuckin CEOs on the shit you're complaining about. There are too many individuals that work at Blizzard that share different opinions on everything but they don't hold the cards. Those individuals may want to form the best Warcraft they could ever make but there is always a bigger boss lurking in the shadows.
I guess we should get rid of LFR because it gives blizzard a revenue in casuals that would probably quit if they removed it. I have 5 or 6 90's 3 85-90, and a shaman in the 70's and I still paid to get my monk to 90. Guess what blizzard made money. As much as I hate LFR they make money off it and they're a business.
That's not a reason to provide the services themselves. There was a Canadian center where you could legally inject drugs. Does that make the drugs any less harmful or addictive? Sure, they were trying to cut out the various diseases from used syringes, but come on.
If leveling weeds out characters or players that aren't interested, boosting is only going to be a temporary fix. If leveling was too much, do we really expect these characters to progress at all after the boost?
Since when is the leveling cap level 100? New expansion isn't out before 9 months.
Looking at that logic we can say, the cap is not level 100 because in 2 years it's going to be 110.
Or in almost 4 years it's going to be 120.
It's allowed to change policy, but it's cool to see how money influences a company opinion. Quality rather quantity. But heck who cares, let blizzard do what they want. It's their game, all I know I'm not in the new expansion, lots of friends have left since months and years. Obviously numbers are going down, nothing to deny.
Those who wish to stick to it, do so. Others .. Find yourself a hobby
Exactly. I'm sure there are plenty of people in Blizzard who don't agree with the direction the company is going, either. That's my exact point.
Loyal fans of Blizzard have this idealized concept of the company in their heads. Like Blizzard is only a couple dudes in a cool office writing games and making all the decisions, like they are the same guys who designed all the content we love and make the financial, legal, and business decisions for the company, and that we need to be grateful to them and never question their actions.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
but on other hand if we charge people for the privilege we can pocket, I mean invest that cash back into the game. Basically we don't give a funk about the levelling experience anymore, money is better.
Or they totally revamped the leveling experience, many people STILL hate it and would never ever like leveling, and it improves it for them to be able to insta 90. It gives more people playing cap characters in the game to group with.
Also, playing a character 1-90 won't make people better players unless they want to be, some are just stubbornly always going to be terrible no matter what.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
We could potentially have a bunch of people who've never played games in general buying insta 90's. WoW could be one of their first games. You don't even have to know WASD and how to move around and here's a character at level cap.
If you would go back to 2005 and tell everyone one day Blizzard will sell toons at cap that you could take to a island where epics just fall out of chests and you quest for them, people would call you a troll.