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Douglas, your intentions are good. Yes, but the fact is that anything that requires a time investment by you, the player, means potentially more money for Blizzard, in terms of a renewed subscription. There is literally no impetus for the manager's at Blizzard to force this kind of development when in the current situation you have the option of rolling an alt to level up/play with your friend(s).
The creation and leveling of this alt means (likely) a healthier server economy (not necessarily, but something to think about), the user spending more time in game (how this time is distributed is of particular consequence to Blizzard), and a reduction of server stress on outland zone-servers. Now if you spend a set amount of time playing each day, rolling the alt will consume part of this time, and thus you will have to extend whatever playtime you have either in the short term(play more), or long term (continue to subscribe), in order to complete whatever goals you have.
Now, the first option does not mean you will cancel your subscription, but the second option does mean they have you for another billing period, guaranteed. This, to me, seems like they would want you to roll that alt, since leveling that alt and THEN playing with your friend takes more time (money!) than just mentoring and playing with your friend. Add in the fact you rolling an alt costs zero design team dollars, that this is not an issue that plagues the majority of players, and you have intertia working against you.
As to why people want to shut down this discussion, I think that most feel that this change would contribute little to the overall game in comparison to the cost to THEM in terms of resources that could be spent on things that matter (to them), like raids, and max level 5-mans, etc. You can clearly see that anyone posting here has a strong opinion on the matter, so getting raged yourself isn't going to change the tone of anyones posts.
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