lol, it makes me disappointed that some people out there actually think stuff like this is a good thing for the game. I can't wait for the day blizz starts selling gear and some of the guys on here surely will be like "WHOO HOOO!!!"
lol, it makes me disappointed that some people out there actually think stuff like this is a good thing for the game. I can't wait for the day blizz starts selling gear and some of the guys on here surely will be like "WHOO HOOO!!!"
Or....blizzard could have just NOT let anyone ever get a lvl boost and no one would have been the wiser. But there are TONS of people who wont have gotten the new expansion and rejoined the game if this free 90 wasnt happening. There are Millions of people who have no interesting in buying one.
I mean...i dont even get it. How would them making this 60 dollars increase the rate of people preordering it? people are going to get it no matter what they do. Whether they buy it this fall, or buy it when the preorder happens.
They invested a shitload of resources into making new leveling content in Cataclysm (which BTW was some of the best questing in the entire game). Their reward? Players bitch about it to this very day.
People want to skip levelling because it isn't endgame and in this day and age if it isn't endgame it's just filler to be skipped as fast as possible.
Not to mention that Blizzard wants people to AVOID buying this, which is why the price is so high. I mean Blizzard is a giant cash cow and you think YOU are smarter than them and are all like "Well if they where as educated as me they'd realize they'd make more money if they lowered the price". Blizzard sold their current game (the whole thing) for 15 dollars last fall...or rather almost all the winter .
And pay to play in the beta? No one has ever done that. Or are you giving a corrupt pessimistic and unrealistic interpretation of people getting 3 free things for signing a paper that says they are going to buy stuff they are going to buy anyways?
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Yep and tons of people still like many of the "old" zones
He doesnt work for the company anymore because he got a cool opportunity.
You dont get fired by making your company millions of dollars and helping to create the biggest most popular experience in the entire Universe.
But hey, if you want to hang on to your tinfoil hat , go ahead.
Mmm, stopped taking anything you say seriously right... about... there.
GC left Blizzard because he got a better job. Incidentally in my business the average time until someone moves on to a new role is more like 3 years, 10 years is a hell of a long time.
Oh and also, he joined in late TBC when Wrath development was already 99% finished IIRC. So more like 5 years.
I mean do you people even get that? Did you not see last blizzcon. The game company is INCREASING. dozens of "Wow killers" have come and gone and went out of business. It is the single largest entertainment community in the entire universe. The company is getting bigger and more independant. "normal" people are playing what has been regarded as the second most nerdy experience in existence.
If WoW dies it wont be for yet another 10 years. This company KNOWS what it is doing. Stop pretending like you people have the slightest clue.
Who is this Reason you speak of and why is his behind disgusted at the 60$?
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It's a reasonable price considering you get decent gear, a level 90, and two free level 600 professions. Me personally though, fuck that. I already have a 90 priest, was going to buy one because I didn't want to restart my professions and grind engineering but, I don't need it that much. I got other games to buy for that 60 bucks ><
Buy game, buy 5 expansions, pay 60 bucks to skip 4 of them.
I think it's a good move from Blizzard to counter external leveling services.
I think that it should be:
1st Lv90 for free
2nd Lv90 for 60$
Increment of 5$ (65, 70, etc) per additional Lv90
One thing is helping players explore the world.
Another thing is encouraging players (even if not all) to massively skip content.
Why did you create a new thread? Use the search function and post in existing threads!
Why did you necro a thread?
I feel majority of the people do not know this. This warning label should be posted in giant red letters in every thread that's about the level boost.
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All but 3rd is correct, last part is silly. If they have 60 bucks to blow, let them buy all the 90s they want. Who's going to notice or care if all the important stuff will be at level 100? More than plenty of time to "learn your class".
This has probably been said already, but $60 is roughly equal to buying the battle chest, a copy of WoD, boosting one toon for free, then paying the transfer cost to bring it over to your main account. If the boost price was any higher than $60, people would ignore it and just go through the process I mentioned. The boost is just another QoL service this way.
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Still planning to let people get a free boost with expansion purchase. All told, the $60 price tag is, as another poster mentioned, around the sum total--less, actually--of buying a WoW battlechest, MoP, WoD, and the character transfer to put the boosted 90 on your main account (which Blizz acknowledged was going to happen anyway).
Rough math:
$20 for WoW (which now includes Cataclysm)
$20-30 for MoP (can't recall offhand which)
$40+ for WoD
Not even figuring any account transfer fee (I haven't used that feature so I dunno if there's a price tag attached), that's around $80 minimum if you buy standard editions and do the transfer off a dummy account, versus $60 to buy it through the ingame/online store.
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