OP thinks he's being super-clever. The quoted post doesn't even contradict anything, although the intelligence of the pitchfork-wielding rabble might be challenged.
Well if you're going to see everything in such a cynical mindset then there's no reasoning with you. Even if the paid 90s are just a money grubbing manoeuvre (they're not) and the free boosts were simply a means of making the latter look less money grubbing (they're not) why does it even matter so long as both Blizzard and the playerbase are benefiting? The boosts still aren't pay to win like so people think and the free ones still provide plenty of benefits to new, current and returning players alike. Just get over the fact that levelling is irrelevant and the idea that the boosts are P2W becomes absurd.
Now i am not one for defending Blizzard but the only thing i have come to realize is all they are trying to do is make it a win for everyone. They earn a bit of money we have the choice to skip many man hours of something we have done multiple times and it puts a big dent in the black market power leveling sites coffers.
Going a bit off-topic. They really should reduce the cost of faction or race change, At least for the start of the expansion with the new models and racial's but other than that there paid services offer a viable choice to save some time in the long run.
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Changing direction isn't always a contradiction. The statement they made was a year old, I certainly wouldn't hold you to a comment you made 3 months ago, let alone a company who has to adapt and change based on their customers to a year old comment.
Instant Level 90 does allow them to skip all that content, but not everyone is only going to buy the service, many people will still level through the older content to experience it, or to get the Veteran Bonus.
Also the issue is one employee=/=Blizzard. Especially just a customer support employee. That's like going to your local Wal-Mart and taking the word of a worker there as the opinion of the whole company.
If it was said by someone higher up in the chain, this thread would be more reasonable.
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WoW is sinking ship mostly due to its design being whine-driven. They could have ignored all "I want naw!" whiners and the game would be in much better state than it is today. Its fact, that by choosing this direction they are shooting themselves in foot.
What about when Blizzard sued Glider and the other bots? Their whole argument was that botting allowed players to skip content, and that allowing some players to skip content harmed the game environment. Now that they're cashing the check, they're singing a different tune.
How about you find anything coming from blizzard prior to a year ago saying power-leveling was no big deal?
90 is the cap now and it will be for a rather long time. It's getting to cap without playing the game.
Even if the cap was 100, that doesn't change a thing. If you had a power-leveling service level you to 90 and then you played the last 10, is what they did not considered power-leveling anymore?
Power-leveling involves sharing your account with someone else, paying them to do it, and could lead to them using your account as a bot or something I would assume.
All of which is against the ToS, which is why they got banned/sued.
They're not similar at all, Blizzard isn't doing any of that with your account except wanting money.
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Well, do you have an article or something that says that's the exact reason? Or did you post it already and I missed it.
Because they could of easily sued on the grounds that people were making a profit off their game while going against the ToS, which would probably stand up more in court I would imagine.
If that's was their serious argument, then that should of been what was posting in the OP, not one employee's opinion, although the only thing I could think that would somewhat debate that point is that the option is there for all now, not just some who want to risk it.
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