An option for characters to start at level 50, pre-heavensward, for FREE

[Seraphor]

Maybe... Maybe the game doesnt need to cha ge to attract the WoW crowd. They can either stay playing WoW, or make an informed decision on their own. This game is doing fine, and if you start changing its core, it would alienate its own player base to attempt to attract players who like a different core.

But this isn't changing it's core, it isn't changing anything about the game. It's offering an ARR skip for free, once the game gets too big and there's too much story to slog through.

ARR is the worst part of the game. The quests are too long winded and vacuous, and there's far too many pointless ones, and you'd get to avoid the nonsense that is the Praetorium, if playing the story firsthand doesn't concern you.