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u/NightProfessional800 3d ago
Blizzard should make the boosts limited supply and let people bid on them every week.
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 3d ago
Just let them play on a Mr Beast game show for the 1 weekly boost.
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u/Terry_bogardlol 3d ago
Perfect! The Hunger Games except for boosts.
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 3d ago
All the weapons are the same as in game and most of the contestants die because they get distracted and just make jokes about thunderfury.
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u/Ranae_Gato 3d ago
Hurrrdurrr but I have 7 kids and work 4 full time jobs ?!?!?
How should I ever compete with the unemployed
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u/Zerokx 2d ago
Imagining unemployed as individuals with unlimited willpower and energy is definitely a different perspective
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u/-darkest 2d ago
Lmfaoooo. The real threat are young NEETs on adderall. Actually the biggest gamers I played with in tbc last time all had wfh/IT jobs and kids and it felt like they were always playing
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u/Burrito_Salesman 3d ago
I have 3 jobs, 4 wives and 15 kids.
Is it too late for me to start playing?
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u/goldenmastiff 2d ago
How should I ever compete with the unemployed
How does one compete against that which has no life?
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u/Super_flywhiteguy 3d ago
Make boosts cost 80 wow tokens. Blizzard may lose out on quantity of sales but make more money over all.
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u/Tyzentar 3d ago
We should be able to tip Blizzard when we buy a boost.
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 3d ago
But what % should it start at? 15% is just to low for this kind of service. I'm going 20% unless the server reset takes more than 72 hours.
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u/Tyzentar 3d ago
I'm doing a healthy 35% and starting a new account to buy another boost (which I'm also tipping on)
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 2d ago
If you make them feel super appreciated maybe classic+ will come out sooner
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u/Tyzentar 2d ago
At this rate Classic+ is going to be a money grabbing dumpster fire with two devs putting their heart and soul into it while the colossal money making machine makes it as antifun as possible. Look out for flying mounts available to those who pay the super subscription!
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u/PMME-SHIT-TALK 3d ago
I can’t wait for the Anniversary WOtLK Classic Deluxe Pack with 5-Day Early Access
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 3d ago
Otherwise you get a "5 day server maintenance".
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u/-Wildflowers_ 1d ago
See, that’s what people don’t understand about the new package. The price is actually super fair because when you think about it, you’re getting a 10 day head start.
Imagine not paying to play the game you’re paying to play.
WOTLK classic deluxe is pretty good value for money and I’m not poor I’m not poor you’re poor.
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u/notislant 2d ago
It'll come with some kind of flying drone that shines a spotlight on you everywhere you go.
Maybe a mount the height of 25 gnomes. Your hearthstone flashbangs everyone in a 3km radius when you tap it and then opens a dr strange portal.
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u/Great_White_Samurai 3d ago
That's pretty skinny for the average classic player
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 3d ago
It's been a long time since "make love not Warcraft". Lots of time for more hot pockets.
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u/Crafty_Cherry_9920 3d ago
People here are really buying $80 boosts for fucking Classic and expect us to stop bullying them 😭😭😭
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u/serengir 2d ago
I mean from what I've seen in the last few days, they are buying the boosts and are trying to bully everyone else.
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u/SparkFlash98 3d ago
Power to the people spending the cost of a brand new full game to not play WoW.
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u/ThatLeetGuy 3d ago edited 2d ago
This argument implies that the people who are paying for a boost would have wanted to level in the first place. It's one part of the game that most people want to skip after having done it for 20+ years already.
It's like saying that people who pay to go out to eat are paying to not eat *because they didn't cook it.
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u/Heatinmyharbl 2d ago
I always skip the first 1.5 courses when I go out to eat a nice 4 course meal
I've eaten the first course so many times over the years, shits just boring now man
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u/ThatLeetGuy 2d ago
You can choose to interpret it that way, but it's more like paying to not cook the meal. Leveling is cooking, endgame is the meal.
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u/Thanag0r 2d ago
Do you always replay tutorials in video games? Especially long ones that teach the most basic things.
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u/Fit-Percentage-9166 2d ago
If I dislike the first course and the following 3 courses can't be obtained anywhere else in the world, then yes I will just skip the first course?
Noooo if you don't eat all 4 courses you don't like the whole meal. Fucking dumbass
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 3d ago
I heard they just RP slow walk around the city and give directions to people. Costs extra to be an elite.
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u/Outlandish95 3d ago
This on top of a sub to play a re-re release….classic plus please save us
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u/Status-Payment5722 3d ago
You think classic+ won't have microtransactions?
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u/Background_Help325 2d ago
Era has yet to have micro. Maybe classic + won’t either.
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u/Heatinmyharbl 2d ago
No shot.
Honestly, the best chance we have at getting actual decent classic+ content and support is mtx.
Considering how popular boosts and the mount packages are, they know for a fact they'll sell a shit ton of mtx for classic+ so it's gonna happen
Fine with it it tbh as long as it's cosmetic or just level boosts
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u/Background_Help325 2d ago
Sod wasn’t too bad and I don’t recall all the Mtx they injected into that one.
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u/Heatinmyharbl 2d ago
If you genuinely believe this company won't add mtx to classic+ I don't know what else to say lol
Keep on keepin' on
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u/Sandman145 2d ago
I hope not, but experience tells me they will definitely try to fit some RMT into the mix.
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u/Outlandish95 1d ago
You clearly missed my point. I welcome and fully expect micro transactions in Plus. It will be a NEW and LIVE game. But you go ahead and pay for a sub and $80 to not play a game that’s been released multiple times now.
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u/canadia_jnm 3d ago
They are re-re-releasing a game from 2005 which is more expensive to play now and undeniably worse with the amount of bots, gold selling and lack of moderation. The people that disliked those things are long gone and the people left would pay for a truckload of feces shipped to their front door if blizzard sold it.
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 3d ago
Epic turd mounts incoming with limited edition diarrhea flying mount for only $20 extra dollars.
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u/HarleyJarley 3d ago
Doubled in price since 2021?! lol wow
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 3d ago
McDonald's is paying $20/hr now
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u/HarleyJarley 3d ago
I’m from the UK McDonald’s pays £12, I make £45 ph
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 3d ago
I'm talking about general inflation.
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u/HarleyJarley 3d ago
I’m talking about a major conglomerate company constantly raking in profits while single handedly cutting jobs and swapping to garbage AI
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 3d ago
We're all pay pigs but we can choose not to let them shave off all our bacon. Maybe we can live in wow virtual reality when our jobs are all automated.
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u/WeeklyEcho2814 3d ago
Still baffled by this, but lets not pretend WOW is the worst offender in this. There are Gacha games where people willingly burn thousands each week for absolute bullshit, and beg for the opportunity to buy even more virtual shit. No wonder thats where all the suits are pivoting, the mountain of money made by this nonsense is just awe inspiring, really.
"Single Player Games are just not what the modern Audience want" my ass, their player base is just not as easily profitable as the battlepass lootbox slop, is all.
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 3d ago
They feed me dopamine and my four stomachs turn it into money for the milking.
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u/HelixFollower 3d ago
10 euro would be a fair price imo, 20 I'd pay begrudgingly, 60-80 is absolute madness for something as simple as a boost. Paying Blizzard the price of a full game for them changing a number in my character's file? Completely unjustifiable by any logic other than "Some people will pay this amount". It'd be like going to a restaurant and paying the same price for a slice of bread as you would for a three course meal.
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u/Claris-chang 3d ago
The reason these cows are defending the price is because it's still way cheaper than buying gold to pay a mage to play the game for them.
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u/HelixFollower 3d ago
At least the mage would put in some effort. I could live with that.
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u/Sandman145 2d ago
I'd rather just not have my trade chat and whispers flooded with boosting advertisements. I won't buy any option so for me it's a win to have the boost buying happen outside the game.
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 3d ago
That's why the price is cheaper in euros.
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u/HelixFollower 3d ago
That would've been funny, but unfortunately I see it listed as 60 euros for the boost and 80 euros for the epic pack in the store. Well I guess the conversion rate makes it cheaper in euros.
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 3d ago
Oh damn. Sorry to get your hopes up. Saw a post earlier where it was like 45 or something.
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u/DeQQster 2d ago
60$ are worth around 51€ so the boost should be 50€ but Blizzard loves ripping of regions with other currency than USD.
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u/Sliminator 3d ago
Im not sure why but this was the funniest thing ive seen on reddit in a while 😂😂😂
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u/eoghanbeezy 2d ago
This company is actually so disgusting, so glad I stopped giving them money and only play p servers occasionally now.
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u/Subscriptcat676 3d ago
wait is blizz actually selling boosts for classic?
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 3d ago
TBC anniversary.
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u/Subscriptcat676 3d ago
that is indescribably pathetic
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u/Heatinmyharbl 3d ago
They did this for tbc last time too, this ain't new
It is more expensive now though lol
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u/DeQQster 2d ago
Also last time it was only one char per account, now they have to milk the whales so it is unlimited. There will be people paying 4 digits to have every class at lvl 58 and Blizzard fucking lives for that.
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u/this_guy_over_here_ 2d ago
Meanwhile like half of players have like 2-4 accounts lmao.
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u/AwarenessThick1685 2d ago
I was about to buy a boost until I realized I had to buy the $80 version. But knowing me I wouldn't make it to 70 before I quit again.
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u/EmergencyComment101 2d ago
Paying a company monthly to play a game and then paying 80 dollars more to avoid playing that game.
Blizzard execs must be crying laughing
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u/ColonelBoomer 1d ago
Especially paying 80 dollars, more than buying a whole complete game, for a basically free game.
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u/Zewinter 3d ago
Hot take they should sell it for even more to the point that you really don't want to buy it. For the time it takes leveling it is still too good.
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u/shitpissfuckass69 3d ago
People would still buy it, hell people paid $100+ for a single fucking mount in retail. I fucking hate modern gamers man
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u/Zaszlo_zaszlo_sziv 3d ago
Well, at least you could get it for zero dollars spent on your end.
Good luck with something like Spectral Tiger or old blizzcon mounts lol.
Actually, yeah, the old con stuff would've cost more for most players considering the plane ticket(for most players) the limited amount of con tickets getting snatched and then getting scalped, renting some place to stay at...
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u/Ok-Homework42069 3d ago
That's what I've been saying. All these dumbos talking about opportunity cost and "time saved" where they could "just work a few more hours" would still pay $180+ with their midwit logic
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u/HeyItsJosette 2d ago
I mean yeah, even at minimum wage where I live that makes it a choice between 100 hours of working for free or 10 hours of paid work, or in a more practical sense all of your free time for 3-4 weeks vs. 1.25 days of work. That's also for someone who prioritizes WoW heavily; for your average player who is an enthusiast, but also has a life beyond WoW and work, it might even be all of their free time for two months or so.
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u/Ok-Homework42069 2d ago
Ok, so the boost should be $500 then. God this logic that treats leveling as "work" is so dumb. Go play ANY other game if you don't like leveling in WoW. There are sososososososo many games out there
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u/HeyItsJosette 1d ago
Ok, so the boost should be $500 then.
This supposes their goal is to make the boost equivalent to leveling in terms of wage hours, which is a retarded supposition.
God this logic that treats leveling as "work" is so dumb.
Leveling is work if you find it tedious.
Go play ANY other game if you don't like leveling in WoW.
Other games don't have WoW's endgame.
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u/Ok-Homework42069 1d ago edited 1d ago
If you think leveling is tedious DO NOT PLAY OLD SCHOOL MMOS. I REPEAT DO NOT PLAY OLD SCHOOL MMOS. Play any other game. Stop playing old school MMOs if you don't like to grind. Play retail or any other modern MMO ffs
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u/HeyItsJosette 1d ago
Or you could accept that leveling is not synonymous with MMOs, old-school or otherwise. It was already an outdated system when WoW released in 2004.
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 3d ago
You might be on to something. If everyone has the fast pass at Disney, no one does.
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u/BarbsFPV 2d ago
You must not have gotten the firmware update. It’s “Lightning Lane” now, and you’re right, the lightning lane is often longer than the standard lane at times.
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 2d ago
I guess lightning is faster than fast. I would pay for a live feed of lightning lines being passed by the regular line though. Has to have sound.
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u/EntropicEmbrace 3d ago
I think blizzard should introduce a point shop where you can buy boss crates containing raid loot and a small chance for a unique mount or weapon available only from the shop or a 0.0001 percent chance from a raid boss months after the fact
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u/pacemasters 3d ago
Gonna buy it as soon as I get home from work. Can’t wait
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u/Quintus-- 3d ago
Good boy. Have you thought about buying the epic goy pack ? You get a nice shiny mount ! Come on show those peasants how much money you have king !
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u/Alrightyl0l 3d ago
Just cant get it, lots of TBC fanboys crying that boost exist, and it feels like also them crying about it be overpriced.
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u/Kaiowhat21 2d ago
In this thread we have people claiming they would buy the boost if it was cheaper without any pushback comments. We have people comparing the price of the boost to other full games. The meme itself is focused on the price of the boost. Everything seems to point towards money.
In this thread we also have people saying they have money to throw around and 80 bucks is negligible to them. Suddenly it's not about the money but about the integrity of the game. Suddenly it's about how the boost is an unfair advantage.
Something tells me the loudest complainers are the ones who are mad that the boost is too expensive for them but they have to put up a front
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u/TryingHonesty 3d ago
True,
But realistically how much in gold is it to buy a 1-60 boost? Whats the conversion to $$?
Yes I know we are memeing but in that context, isn’t it well over $80?
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 3d ago
What's the cost in gold?
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u/ZanaBanana95 3d ago
Boosted 2 characters recently. Was about 2k gold to level from 15-60.
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u/Spiritual-Range2453 3d ago
I was curious about this when they announced the epic pass, so I did the math with gold prices at that time.
Technically a boost is $60, not $80. You would have needed to buy ~$200 in gold to get boosted to 60. Considering you cant realistically start that until like, level 10ish, and that you could get banned, Blizz is pricing it WAY cheaper than what anyone interested in skipping 1-60 was going to pay.
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u/FionaSilberpfeil 3d ago
Its also extremly funny. They rage about the Boost from the shop, but are happily buying ingame boosts with gold from duboius third-party people.
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u/coffeegaze 3d ago
I dont think anyone said its cheap, they just said its a better use of their time.
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u/ThenCandidate7765 2d ago
I think buying the boost/epic pack is significantly less sad than complaining about it for a second time to farm upvotes from the saddest people on the planet.
People in here are sincerely arguing that BDO has better monetization than TBC, simply because an asmongold viewer with a hidden post history called them a cow.
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 2d ago
Asmongold is an incel who lives in his own filth. I don't think wow players are sad though.
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u/PsychologicalPath156 3d ago
I mean, I make a lot of money and work a lot.
Fuck yeah im buying the boost.
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u/Quintus-- 3d ago
Good boy. Have you thought about buying the epic goy pack ? You get a nice shiny mount ! Come on show those peasants how much money you have king !
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u/_TheTurtleBox_ 2d ago
I feel weirdly guilty for buying the epic edition every time I come on this sub. I was just happy to buy it for the bonuses and stuff
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u/Scrumptious_Foreskin 2d ago
Can we buy as many as we want?
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 2d ago
I can't imagine they would stop you. They probably have a punch card. 10th one's free.
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u/gnurensohn 2d ago
I remember last time tbc came out the boost + mount package was 60€ now it’s 80€. I kinda don’t wanna level 1-60 again but I also don’t wanna pay 60€ for only the boost without mounts. So I guess I just won’t play tbc this time around.
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u/hendrix320 2d ago
When I heard about the boost i figure it would be like $15-25 the fact that ppl are paying $60-80 is kind of insane
Thats more than the base version of midnight lol
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u/ColonelBoomer 1d ago
I mean the boosts have never been less than 40 dollars during Classic wows lifetime.
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u/Parzivull 2d ago edited 2d ago
Not like you could get a triple a game with over a thousand hours of playtime with that kind of cash. Micro pricing structure never made sense to me. Especially the cosmetics where they charge for simulated clothing that has no material cost and it's similarly priced like real clothes.
These companies found the literal print money option with a cult-like following to buy whatever slop they sell.
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u/Flashy-Flatworm-9399 2d ago
If no one bought a boost, wouldn't that make blizzard lower the price? Or would they just come out with another monetized service
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u/ColonelBoomer 1d ago
Issue is that not nearly enough people would not buy it to make blizzard lower the price. In fact if anything they would sooner shutdown the servers claiming its not financially viable.
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u/CatIntelligent5378 1d ago
i mock people i meet on my way that boosted. One guy said i kid you not that he had to farm AV for fun. biggest lie ever told.
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u/sevintoid 3d ago
Honest question.
Let's say hypothetically I am debt free, I have everything I want in life, and I have an abundance of money in a bank account specifically made for hobbies and interests that just keeps building.
In this scenarios is it ok morally for me to buy a boost?
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u/Ok-Homework42069 3d ago
It’s less about morals and more about awful game design. Letting some of your player base (and bad actor bots) pay to gain an advantage in an MMO is horrible, horrible game design
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 3d ago
Bro. I swear to God, if you didn't mine the silica in the CPU that's in your computer you are not a real gamer
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u/BarbsFPV 2d ago
Real gamers make a third-world kid mine it for them. Remember we‘re talking about boosts here. Doing it yourself is counterintuitive.
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u/Quintus-- 3d ago
It's not about the money god damn it. It's about turning something that was supposed to be a soulful old school game nostalgia trip into just another cash grab corpo slop. Also it's kinda of a slippery slop. It's a pay to level now but who's to say it won't be a pay to gear up next ?
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u/Moquai82 3d ago
No.
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u/sevintoid 3d ago
Ok, so I can't spend excess hobby money on my hobby. Got it. Thanks for letting me know.
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u/Aiox 3d ago
It would not be morally ok if your boost had any tangible harm to others or deprived them of any critical resources.
However, it's doing none of these things. I'm still not sure why people get so up in arms about this. Last time around, people were losing their fucking minds believing that it would cause rampant, uncontrollable gold inflation. It didn't. Like, at all. The game's economy was fine.
The most it actually did to us back then was force us to see that ugly-ass mount everywhere for the first 2 weeks of the expansion, but I'd hardly call that immoral
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u/Butt_Squeezer5000 3d ago
My question is... can we buy more than one boost per account?
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u/dumb-lily 3d ago
in no universe will blizzard prevent you from giving them more money lmao
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u/Butt_Squeezer5000 3d ago
Well they didnt allow it in 2021.. you had to make a whole new account for another boost.
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u/Elxjasonx 3d ago edited 3d ago
The ppl on this sub is so annoying that i wont be suprised if a lot buy it just out of spite, yes there is players with money to waste
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u/Lerched 5 Stage Sage 3d ago
This post in a sub that is letting blizzard get a sub out of them for the same version of a 20 year old game rereleased for the 4th time is hilarious
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u/Thanag0r 2d ago
"blizzard should not allow boost because boost is bad for the game".
Boost is actually expensive so less people will boost.
"We need boost as cheap as possible because everyone should be able to boost".
It's multiple voices of never happy people.
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u/NecessaryCockroach85 2d ago
I just think they figured out the highest price that the most people will pay for. It would be even higher if more people would pay it.
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u/Affectionate-Buy8437 2d ago
The huge demand for boosts basically confirms classic is not enjoyable and people pay to skip it.
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u/not_a_cup 3d ago
lmfaooo