New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[Shougun]

Who goes into the game laser-focusing on the endgame without doing research about it first?

I haven't made the reason why I think it's a good choice exclusively on end game so you're talking to the wrong person if you want to focus on end game why I think an option is a good thing. I'm sure some other might discuss that perspective better/more excitedly.

Perhaps because WoW has a much higher profit and also has other ways to earn it (like the sub tokens)? What they're losing in sub time to get to level cap, they're earning it through other means.

I wouldn't know if that's why they chose to, it could be a factor for sure. But I think unless one of us is actually part of their financial team we should avoid playing their accountant since we could make a lot of mistakes and bad assumptions doing it (but not because I think you might be wrong, you could be right - I just think it's error prone and assumption city). Although are you saying if we had sub tokens you think a baseline option is a reasonable choice? Keeping in mind I'm not even trying to get the potions as baseline in the first place (even though that's certainly the fastest "fix"), but I do think an optional solution is in order.