Buying gold has always been in the game and regardless of it being legal, people have done it. A fella I used to know bought like 100K in TBC so he could buy boosts for everything from the War Bear to BT clears. The fact that buying it direct cannot get you banned just brought people into the light with it.
Lol
I was playing wow actively during the spectral's steed release. Wasn't watching youtubers back then and was only using youtube for some musicvideos.
I bought the spectral steed on release and I remember the whole Daralan populated by them. Like 3 other people from my guild back then got it as well, rest either didn't care or disliked the looks of it. Hadn't seen anyone shaming or attacking people for it.
Please stop presenting Youtube videos as "community reaction". It's a reaction of that specific creator and his followers. Totalbiscuit was a great content creator but his early years aged pretty badly. Glad he changed his mind on many topics as time passed by.
YOu might actually want to read the post:
So, you really have no evidence at all.but some argue this is most likely just due to the fact that the Chinese version of Classic already has a WoW Token, so the equivalent page was made by default (or by mistake) for NA and EU as well.
I don't blame anyone for taking advantage of the boost if they can justify that ridiculous price to themselves. Totally their choice. The leveling experience is tedious as fuck. It helps new players I guess. You will know your abilities like second nature after you've killed 1000's of mobs leveling up. Anyone who has played for years doesn't need that kind of grind.
Anyhoo I'm not seeing this spitting / harassment thing on EU servers either. Atleast on Pyrewood EU. Is it mainly a U.S thing?
EDIT: Or maybe a PvP server thing. Yea I can imagine the idiots that play on those servers acting like dumb little jealous kids.
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If you cant handle /spit, then log off the internet
The analogy is not the same for the simple reason that retail exists for this. People who decided to play classic vehemently despise these additions and practices. You can buy all the useless shit you want in so many other games. But when a game that was made for a demographic that despises these additions because they fundamentally alter the games premise it is different.
Why do people assume WoW was created with some motive other than to make money?
They sold. They absolutely didn’t have to. They had hundreds of millions in revenue and a rapidly growing base.
And from a design perspective, WoW was created with significantly lower barriers to player success than EQ. They wanted growth and that’s it.
The boost gear is, looking at the fresh boosts around the hunter trainer in SW, closer to Uldaman gear than 30 gear. It's far from ideal for 58 but unless you're playing a squishy with no battlefield control or a tank spec, it'll do you fine enough to start questing in EPL and plugging into BRD groups. A few trips through BRD should get a fresh boost enough gear and practical experience that the only way people can tell you have a boost in your account is if you ride the warpstalker.
Mind, I don't have one nor have any plan to get one, so I'm just napkin mathing it based on the stats from inspecting and running on the assumption most or all of your abilities are ranked up to the max for 58.
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People have been on this train since 2008, it hasn't worked in 13 years and trying the exact same thing for 13 years insinuates either obsessive tendencies or an inability to learn from experience.
Be seeing you guys on Bloodsail Buccaneers NA!
I'm not going to argue over every single piece, some pieces are plain worse than items from level 20 dungeons, others are a bit better.
Putting aside that "Uldaman" is as vague as you can get as this dungeon notoriously has one of the biggest levelgaps in the entire game.
Feel free to direct that reply to the person that wanted to join a strat group on a 58 boosted character.
I should elaborate since I was just stealing the previous posters idea...
The point that I think they were making and that I agree with is that because this wasn't met with strong opposition from the beginning, we are all responsible that it has progressed this far.
I have a very clear memory when the helmets were released of sitting in vent (yes, I'm old) with my guildies and everyone agreeing to deliberately boycott those helmets, both the free one and the purchasable ones. We all felt it was the beginning of a bad thing for our favorite game. And we were not wrong. That is the sentiment I was affirming. Not that it's cool to be mean to people today, but that this is the end result of not revolting hard enough when this process started.
Not a hate crime persay, but it is worth asking whether there is any purpose to this protest other than to push hatred further into the community. Given that Blizz isn't going to take away store mounts or make them accessible in game and that people really can't refund their mounts once it's done, it seems to me to be solely a harassment campaign to shame people into not using what they paid for and instead giving Blizz free money. I'd argue a better use of time would be to push Blizz in places like forums & Blizzcon rather than spending time harassing people who just want to have fun with what they bought.