My wife and I preordered BFA, including the collector's edition, and here are my thoughts:
We preordered BFA, and we additionally donated an extra $40 bucks to Blizzard for the collector's editions over the standard editions. It was money well spent. I have 2 Highmountain toons, a druid and a shaman, and I am having a blast with what they have done for the new areas. My wife has a Nightborn mage, which she is also enjoying.
It is true that some things could be done better. Examples are: First Aid bandages could heal for quite a bit more, mobs could hit a bit harder, the copper and silver coins could be eliminated and low level items repriced (or least get rid of the copper coins). I would also like to see continual improvement in the story chains, and I would like to see substantial low level rewards for getting Honored and Revered with Orgrimmar, Undercity, etc. So if you get to Honored by level 20, not too hard, you get a nice item or two to make you stronger. Revered would get you an even better reward. There would need to be appropriate rewards every 10 levels or so.
But mostly they have brought back the leveling feeling that I had before super fast leveling became a thing. I am exploring areas in full that I did not before, and revisiting others and remembering why I liked them in the first place. They revamped low level Jewelcrafting, and I am creating items that I can wear that are nice upgrades in kind of a natural way. I hope this continues to be true as I level up!
My wife and I bought two Collector's Edition Pre-Orders, partially to reward Blizzard for entertaining us. This is one of the expenditures I feel the most satisfied with. Thank you Blizzard.
My hardcore wow days are over with wife and work and all but I did and would pre-order anything that has blizzard name on it.
Tomorrow Blizzard can put a box of shit on their store setting a release date 10 months. I would pre-order it as I know it will be good quality shit.
I say this every xpac, I would preorder the next 10 xpacs if I could. I dont care what they do, Im not gonna stop playing this game. I consider the game free anyways with all the gold I make.
and you can refund the pre-order, or even refund the expansion shortly after it launches if you dont like it
friend of mine pre-ordered overwatch day it was announced, i told him it was pvp, he doesent like pvp.
game comes out months later, day we play it we play 7 matches win, then 8th match lost, he rage quits and blizzard refunds the game for him.
btw i pre-ordered, but then saw this thread and pre-ordered the collectors edition just to spite you.
cause i rather they get a boost of money now so they see the expansion worth investing in, instead of feeling like less people are buyying it and causing them to think people are gunna hate it, and they better move on quick.
To late,,uh...eh?
Speak for yourself I've still got alts left to level (I think I've leveled half the available classes through their order hall campaigns and mounts, though I might skip the ones I already spoiled from Nobbel's videos, which is a shame because the DK one I spoiled is frickin' incredible) PvP prestige rewards to get, and hopefully eventually that darn challenge tower appearance before the end of the expansion (SURELY heroic antorus gear will be enough!)
But it worked out so well with WoD! We cut so many corners some of the warlords like Orgrim barely had an in-game presence, we lost an island, actual garrison customizability and a raid tier!
My lock is now a beautiful Shal'dorei. (Avatar <-----). No regrets. Bought the expansion and a race change.
Let's get 1 thing straight, I'm not
So many in this thread with a "Oh Blizzard, PLEASE take my money now!" attitude, very sad to see. Stop acting like a fool and take back your right as a consumer!
Fully agree with OP. But people are stupid.
Digital Delivery goods fall under a completely different returns policy in general.
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Great Product? Damn you have low standards
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You mean the unfinished allied races with placeholder models and animations? Enjoy!
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"you pay 12 months of subscription to WoW and we'll give you Diablo 3 for Free"
"You pre-order the expansion now we'll give you a shiny mount and access to Allied Races that will have new models and animations on release of the actual game"
"If you Pre-order our game you also get cool stuff for our other games"
No they're not EA they are just a version of EA backed by blind followers. At least EA customers call them out on it.
Each to their own though.
Meh, was telling myself i wont reply but i am bored so
You are wrong, this is World of Warcraft, its always the same game and has been for 13 years.
It wont be changed in the next expansion, it wont be anything different.
Its not a new game, its not a 100% cash grabbing company like EA, its the same shit it has been.
Quests-->Collect starter gear to kill big named pixels-->Collect more gear for bigger named pixels-->Bigger named pixels--->Next expansion.
The quality wont change, nothing ever changes gameplay wise.
There isnt anything safer to pre-order than World of Warcraft really, assuming you have a brain about what the game is about and you arent crying on the forums "I DONT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO" while your main activity is Pokemon in WoW.
Last edited by potis; 2018-02-02 at 10:39 AM.
I think their motivation is not the 50$ for BfA, but the ongoing subscriptions.
I think, while Subs dropped through the WoD cycle, they got ass kicked by some share holders and thus their executives.