Quote Originally Posted by Fat Tire View Post
It does look like there may be changes coming -

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/...ge=19#post-372
I...I'm not sure...did they even read the thread? The only sentence that made sorta sense to me was "if leveling is too slow, we’d rather address that in the game itself than have Refer-A-Friend be some kind of bizarre workaround." But that assumes that the vast majority of new players recruited through RAF want to lazily surf through the old content. How they could read "we dislike that you level so fast that you get hit by the quest chain breadcrumb lockout" and construe that as "we don't like leveling this fast" instead of "we like leveling this fast but we hate not being able to progress to the next hub in the zone because we haven't done the 49 chain quests that lead to it first" is beyond me. There must be other primary factors in the discussion that prevents people not privy to the marketing/playerbase/sales data from connecting the dots. IMO, it's starting to sound a lot like another version of Ghostcrawler's raid-or-die or "You think you want fast leveling of alts but you really don't." I'm sure I'll keep playing but it'll definitely make me think a lot harder about the ROI of leveling new alts.