Only thing I hate about boosting is that they can't keep the $%^ out from in-game chat which is annoying AF. If Someone wants a boost, that person will get it anyway and not because you flood the freaking chat everywhere 0-24h. Yeah, I know " then turn the chat off noob" why not play a single-player game then? xD .... Yes these people ruin the game experience way too much. They should have a team exactly for this, perma bann all of them.
Boosting exists because a huge part of playerbase wants it to exist so it won't go anywhere no matter how many conveniences Blizzard decides to ban or make against tos. So I think they should just embrace it and became a hub for boosting communities themselves. That way they can also keep track on rmt much easier.
Literally nothing wrong with boosting if it's not account sharing. I can't wait for literally nothing to change in game except no more advertising and people pretending like it changed the game. Because it didn't and it won't.
Discord did more with one single decision than blizzard has done in its entire wow life. With blizzard you get a lot of hot air. WTS ads are fobidden. But if you do not enforce the rule what good is it?%99 of the players know blizzard is full of you know what when it comes to the enforcement of that particular rule. We all moan and they do fudge all. Nothing. Nada.Blizzard.....fricken waste of breath to say anything more. Nothing will be done till there is a mass walkout. When it hits their wallets big enough and bobby cant buy anymore yachts you will see a change of tack. Till then the players can stuff it.
It does bring a smile to my face when I get a mail or ticket response letting me know there's been action against an account after reporting trade chat spammers.
All this panicked downplaying of boosting culture/impact. I can’t laugh hard enough. Best timeline would be if blizz didn’t have plans to make a dedicated services channel. There should be no soil to allow this behavior to fester.
hahahahaha get screwed over boosters! ppl like you ruin the game. i cant even express how satisfied i am when i saw this.
Good riddance
While PVP boosting is absolutely harmful and cheating indisputably, I do see some interesting discussion around PvE boosting. Some boosters claim it doesn't do any harm because other players aren't being directly affected but I think those boosters forget that a lot of people play wow for the prestige. Getting AOTC, KSM, and CE are prestige achievements you can flash at people to let them know you can play the game well. It creates aspirational game play for people who have not yet earned those achievements. When you can just pay IRL money to get these achievements it throws everyone who earned those achievements' skill into question; no longer do those mounts mean you are seeing an incredibly skilled player and that ruins the game. The only really prestige title left is the top 1% dungeon rating achievement and I'm sure there are people trying to figure out how to sell that too.If you value the prestige aspect of MMO's then boosting communities need to be put down.
For what my sources say, they have not one but two discords one Is the public that was removed and other Is for members only and with the peoples on the seccond they just remade the public one just a few minutes agoThanks Discord for your efforts anyways
the level 1s spamming trade chat spam all day every day without punishment is odd indeed
The biggest problem is that Blizzard made rules. But have no personal to enforce them. Its so stupid. Rules came out. No more boosts trough community's. 2 weeks later they all back with a new kinda walk around the rules advertising "personal groups - guild runs - friend group". In the first few weeks they where still scared. Trying to take your gold but not saying what boosting community they where. Now they just open about it cause blizzard doesnt care. And dont even talk about all the advertisement in the LFG tool to all the boosting sites. I mean i get it that you wanna work full force on your new expension. But than dont make rules you cant enforce. Only gives a vibe that you stopped caring.