Quote Originally Posted by Moonlite View Post
Let us not cover the level potion just the story portion quest needed to get to Northrend
At that point there was no available skip, if you wanted to get to Northrend you either ran countless dungeons or quested through a variety of zones with no heirlooms to boost you all the way to level 68. The developers wouldn't decide that all that should be skippable as an option for another 6 years, and decided tacking it on to the expansion (while bumping the price up $10 as a consequence) was good for the game at that point.

And that's my point - bundling with the game should be a thing, but choosing the right time to do it is a complicated question with a highly subjective answer (not all games are at the same point in their overall life cycle as a game at the same age milestones, and doing it one way just because another MMO did it that way is a recipe for trouble). Bundling skip potions with the second expansion less than four years into the game is arguably not the right time to include it with the purchase of the game.

Six years in with expansion number three? Good time to start doing so. Eight years in at expansion number four? A no brainer if they haven't bundled it already.