I get what youâre saying but it didnât stop the gold sellers. What stopped the gold sellers (mostly) was Blizzardâs token system, where you buy a token, you sell it on the ah and you get gold. Thatâs as far as the token system should have gone. It should never have been allowed to spiral out of control into what it has now, along with what gold can do. Thatâs all on Blizzard, but theyâve gone so far down the rabbit hole with gold and tokens itâs out of control.
But at the end of the day it all boils down to what I said in my first post. As long as there are players willing to buy bossts, there will be a market for them.
So unless Blizzard brings out their own form of boosting system to cut the revenue to the spammers and boosters in LFG, itâs up to Blizzard to be more diligent in removing them. Right now, as I said, the best they can do is just ban accounts soon as they appear, and as ishayo correctly says, thereâs a LOT of them, and soon as you remove one, two take their place.
The revenue they get from boosting makes it all worth their while.
The problem is that Blizzard creates opportunities for selling boosts. Not just opportunities. Sometimes the mechanics almost scream âyou are welcome boostersâ. They either do it on purpose for profits from tokens or are so out of the touch, its sad.
the point was that LFG is advertisement only. There are no groups left at all for normal play in certain sections and at certain times.
it was a jokeâŠ
I think thereâs probably more WTS listings Horde side than Alliance, but with the overall lower number of groups forming on the Alliance you end up with the situation that Dezi has described where some categories are purely boost sellers rather than genuine groups. This normally seems to be the case for Torghast and the PvP groups at certain times of day.
Iâm not sure what Blizzard can do here to be honest. These guys only need to sell a couple of boosts to be able to buy a new account and so even permanently banning them for doing this wonât have an impact on them.
Hardware banning them would definitely work as a computer will cost quite a few more boosts than an account, but I can imagine that Blizzard would be quite reluctant to do this!
never came across as one, there was no satire at all in your post hence it came across like you was actually believing what you wrote, make it more clear next time
https://i.imgur.com/iEoCA4a.jpg
On alliance there were these + 2 more when searching for wts https://i.imgur.com/gQm1sPE.jpg
On horde 20+ wts groups total
unpopular opinion butâŠit isnât all on blizz to be fair, a few people have been warning you all for years that boosting is bad for the game and far too many that have been defending it, this is NOT the way a game should be played, you made your bed and now you have to lie in it, the fact that itâs way out of control is all on the buyers not the sellersâŠ
both the players and the devs need to work on why it became so necessary in the first place and that is what needs to be fixed.
I think youâre spot on that it isnât all on Blizz - if there wasnât such a large market for boosts then there wouldnât be so many people trying to cash in on it.
Iâve never bought a boost so this is purely speculation, but I imagine that the demand is driven by the risk of potentially losing out on limited time cosmetics and achievements that are locked behind hard content. That and the fact that itâs an easy way to catch up if youâre on an undergeared character and struggling to get invited to PUG content.
I think puny is right, its out of control.
Blizzard defenitly has to do something about it, but they wond.
Its all about tokens, wich brings them a lot of money.
Same goes for all those BoE drops, it seems they drop more than bossloot, so how can Ion say we want loot to be meaningfull. Its not, because these BoE will sell more tokens.
I myself will not buy any token or item in store, because we allready pay a monthly fee to play this game (we even pay for each addon ).
And when you play it right, AotC and KSM can be reached without boost.
I got my KSM last week while playing frostmage.
This topic isnât here to debate whether or not boosting should be allowed in game.
This topic is here to show how something that blizzard has said is against the ToS is being straight up ignored by the boosting community and even ignored by blizzard themselves.
There is no fear for these boosters abusing the system in this way because they know blizzard wonât do anything, even after multiple reports, as Puny has shown earlier in the thread one of the adverts was up for 3 days!
On the very rare occourance that blizzard do get involved theyâll just give that character a 24 hour mute and thatâs it! so the booster just /shrug, relogs to a new character and sets it up again.
The state of the game is awful right now and this is just the icing on the cake, the lack of communication from blizzard and care is just a massive middle finger to us as the community and playerbase.
lfg is the same as general chat, not a place to sell boots/items, but that dont stop people from spamming those channels as long as they dont get a ban warning.
Iâve always thought when Iâve been doing the daily WTS reporting spree âThey probably wonât get much of a punishment, but at least Blizz will do something to them.â but Punyâs post showing the ad that has been up for three days is really disappointing. Iâd thought theyâd at least be getting a slap on the wrist for blatantly breaking the ToS and Iâm sure that listing has been reported several times by this point!
nobody is, but the fact remains the problem is driven entirely by the insane demand, whatever blizz do about it will be worked around another way. all the time the demand is there the sellers will be right there with them.
