I'll spend my money on whatever I want to spend my money on, thanks.
Maybe I will buy it, maybe I won't. Some random post on a minority forum certainly isn't gonna sway my decision either way. Especially not when said forum is full of people who like to hate regardless.
If I don't respond to something you tagged me in, assume one of two things.
1) Your post was too stupid to acknowledge, or
2) Your post is cringe and not worth replying to.
Alternatively, if it happens a lot I probably have you blocked due to one of the above things. Thank you.
Whether you preorder something or not wont have one iota of an effect on what's available at launch.
"Oh damn, not a lot of people preordered, I guess we gotta put that new class we were toying around with after all!" ~something never said by blizzard ever
I have never once seen anything like that happen from Blizzard. These development pipelines are years in the works; they aren't going to belt out three new zones or a new class or new race in a few months because sales weren't in line with what they internally expected.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
I have never been one to preorder anything way ahead of time, just in case something happens later that would make me lose interest. It seems pretty pointless to spend money long before getting the product, and any preorder bonuses will still be there if you order a week before launch instead of a year. That being said though, I have to agree with the many others pointing out that literally nothing would change based on preorder numbers being lower. The only way to talk with your wallet is to not buy it at all, and most of the people saying they refuse to preorder will end up playing anyway even if they wait until post launch to buy it.
cool story bruh,no reason not to pre order if you plan on buying the expansion no matter what
I have no interest in wow right now so unless they pull something massive I’ll just keep playing other games.
Technically they already cashed in when I spent a relatively useless currency to convince other people to pay them $200.
That does make me wonder if they double dip for their investor metrics, though. $20 from the sale of the token plus $15 from its use as Bnet balance to purchase something else = $35 of net bookings for the quarterly report when only $20 was actual revenue? No wonder net bookings continue to rise as MAU's drop...
A friend in discord told me today that this old dinosaur of a game is releasing yet another expansion and I didn't believe him. I had to login this account after many years just to see for myself.
LMAO...the sad reality is that for 20 years you losers have played this shit game and let life pass you by. A lot of you probably left your families for some fat "elf" you met in your guilds and now this is your identity. Life has passed you by and you're stuck because this is all you have to show for it.
My guess on the new profession is a rapist executive where you rape your co-workers for skillpoints. Blizzard approved for sure.
LMAO at all you losers still stuck playing this trash. Eat shit.
You're just relevant enough for people like me to come and bully you. In before some fat hairy trailer park low income admin with a pony tail nukes my account.
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The reason why pre-orders became big and were actually an important facet to marketing was because the more pre-orders a game received, the more incentive and ability there was for the developers to create DLC. It proved their was a market for it, more-so than the developers earning faith from the consumer.
Now that we're in the space of Anthem, Battlefield 2042, current WoW, New World, so on and so forth - that incentive is gone. Who wants DLC when that DLC is just finishing the game?
I'll pre-purchase it because I enjoy the game as a whole. There's always going to be aspects of an expansion that I like and dislike, which is every expansion in WoW's history. Shadowlands is awful, but I've enjoyed many aspects of it regardless.
I think I'd rather fly the friendly skies on my new Emerald Drake mount in 12 hours instead of 12 months from now. I mean, thanks for trying at least?
We're all newbs, some are just more newbier than others.
Just a burned out hardcore raider turned casual.
I'm tired. So very tired. Can I just lay my head on your lap and fall asleep?
#TeamFuckEverything
I may have my grievances with the current state of the game (at this point it's mostly niche stuff like putting BiS endgame gear behind a Timewalking event that is only available for a week every 4 months), but I'm still playing the game daily and having fun.
Even if the next expansion was just more of the same I'd still be playing.
If y'all grievances outweigh your enjoyment of the game, stop playing. But don't expect everyone else to do so.
I'm sorry my dude if there's a dragon class I can't be held responsible for how fast I click preorder. I recognize I'm part of the problem.
The people your post would actually have a chance of having any effect on probably already aren't going to be preordering it. The rest, I doubt your post will have much effect. People have been pushing against preorders like this for close to 2 decades now, and hasn't really had much of an impact. A very large portion of the customer base will be preordering it pretty much as soon as it goes live. The best you can really do is just vote with your own wallet and let others do as they will.