If Blizzard truly end twinking would you still play there game?

[mysticalmite]

Since Blizzard loves to eavesdrop lets let them make it clear. I had this theory since Blizzard created xp-off. They intended to keep the twink community going even though they stated they hate twinks and really have there focus on endgame material. It would be crazy that if Blizzard really wanted to end twinking, they would just remove xp-off like they have done already at lvl 51-59. Now would you continue to keep playing this game if they completely remove xp-off feature so BG's will finally be in order?

 

[Chops]

Now would you continue to keep playing this game if they completely remove xp-off feature so BG's will finally be in order?

F2P would still exist, so sure

 

[ohti]

Yes. There's more to this game than playing the same 3 15+ year old BGs in low level PvP.

Also Blizzard doesn't read these forums this bit never fails to be ridiculous

 

[tence]

Since Blizzard loves to eavesdrop

Bold of you to assume individuals that work in an industry that routinely requires you to work ungodly amounts of overtime would specifically seek out a forum dedicated to a niche style of play that caters towards ~.1% of the total playing population in what little free time they have.

 

[Mattymatt726]

No. Not intrested in forced end game crap.

 

[Ivo]

Yeah, it's the real thing after all. I'll just stop being a weirdo who locks xp at 20 and play the real game.

 

[Voc]

Yes. There's more to this game than playing the same 3 15+ year old BGs in low level PvP.

Also Blizzard doesn't read these forums this bit never fails to be ridiculous

warsong gulch is the greatest battleground ever made in the world of warcraft

i think there is a lot of us who would like to go back to when it was just wsg and ab, something like that , it was good times

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[kurosawa]

I have decided to level all my twinks. I started a subscription about 3 months ago after a pauze of almost one year. I quited wow because I play on a lot of alts and I got tired of the anima farming. Now I came back and I must say it has become much easier to gear alts. I also like the Wow companion app. You can level your alts by doing missions. That's why I removed the level cap.

 

[Kirise]

I had this theory since Blizzard created xp-off. They intended to keep the twink community going even though they stated they hate twinks and really have there focus on endgame material.

Show me one place where anyone from Blizzard said they hated twinks. Dude, I get you're salty about losing gems, but just because you care about your twinks and you got your gems taken away doesn't mean Blizzard was out to get you.

This myth of "Blizzard hates twinks" continues to perpetuate over the years, and I'll bet people would actually feel better if Blizzard were out to get us, rather than for us to mean so little to them that Blizzard can casually nuke a piece of our history. That's what really gets people. The gems, the gear, the things that represent so much to twinks and Blizzard just whoopsie-daisies them for the sake of some minor but current feature of the game.

That aside, your theory is correct, and it was correct from the first days of the XP eliminator. Tom Chilton (game director of WoW at the time) explicitly said in an interview that they knew adding XP to battlegrounds would kill off a subcommunity of WoW players, so they intentionally added in an option to preserve those players.

To answer your poll question with a fourth option, No, I would not play WoW without twinking, but I would look back fondly on my time with WoW as one of the most fun experiences I had. Far from years spent "going down the drain", I learned a ton from my time in WoW that improved other areas of my life, and I had a blast with some great people.