Suggestion about jump potions

[Berethos]

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.

[Moonlite]

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You are missing my point. Northrend only required you to be lvled plus one quest. We are not at the point where we need a leveling boost. Hell PoTD levels you so fast. But we were past story skip potion at 2.5. The amount of work at the end of 2.5 is probably greater then any decade old MMO. So if they didn't bundle both, the story skip should almost be mandatory. That is why I said not to cover the level potion.

[Berethos]

You are missing my point. Northrend only required you to be lvled plus one quest. We are not at the point where we need a leveling boost. Hell PoTD levels you so fast. But we were past story skip potion at 2.5. The amount of work at the end of 2.5 is probably greater then any decade old MMO. So if they didn't bundle both, the story skip should almost be mandatory. That is why I said not to cover the level potion.

And you are missing mine - that at that point in the story for WoW, there was no skipping of any kind available at all, so there's really no easy comparison. You're trying to compare apples and oranges to make your point.

It's definitely not something that should be encouraged for new players, which is what bundling them together with the game would do.

I agree that this would be the kind of optics bundling it would give, and why it's too early to start doing. That they exist at all this early in the game's life cycle is enough.

[Zojha]

And you are missing mine - that at that point in the story for WoW, there was no skipping of any kind available at all, so there's really no easy comparison.

Well, of course there wasn't because they didn't need any at the time. SE has managed to create more artificial gating in base game and the first expansion than other games in multiple expansions, hence they implemented them earlier.

And I'm still sure that's intentional. The sooner you can start selling such things, the better.