Agree. You can clearly set up blockades on advertising and people just donât care. Even if blizzard did police it harder, theyâd need to do it like STUPID hard, because these individuals lose little by simply setting up a new account, youâd need to go for hardware bans to make it effective (good luck with that).
There are two other ways to look at the problem:
the thing itself that prompts the adverts - boosting
The demand for the thing
Blizzard can exercise control over 1), by changing their stance on boosting in general and making it so even gold boosting is a violation of ToS if they want to. Whether theyâll do it or not is another question (as is whether they have the powers or willngness to track and police it if they did)
Regarding the second, blizzard canât do much about community desire to use boosts, except by maybe taking out FOMO stuff, but so long as gear is tied to content, boosting desire is always there. This is something that has to come from the community itself in a concerted manner, because if nobody wants to use boosts, the communities will shrivel up and die and stop advertising.
But thatâs a huge ask because it would require some pretty dramatic actions such as making pariahs of people who use boosts so doing so frustrates their progress in the game, but you could argue thatâs a pretty nasty step to take for people just exercising freedom in a game.
But at the end of the day, so long as boosting itself exists, the onus to advertise it is there and will always exist in some form.
yeh, sorry for throwing my tuppence worth in, ivâe always been pretty vocal about the games boost culture, while i have little sympathy i understand how annoying it must be and support you trying to deal with itâŚsorryâŚ
This proves that Blizzard isnât doing enough when a listing is up for 3 days.
I honestly donât understand why there isnât just a gm sitting all day dealing with this stuff instantly, Like a chat mod on Twitch or something? Iâm pretty sure they can afford that.
Even just checking once or twice a day and banning all ads that are up at that time would help a huge deal.
The Group Finder requires level 50+ to use. If you only get a few days of advertising out of your account it would become unprofitable pretty quickly.
Not doing anything about it also sends the message that itâs okay. So people that are on the fence about it, might be more likely to just go âoh blizzard doesnât care about those ads being up for 3 days, so itâs okay if I do it aswell.â
TBF they could probably even hire a player on a barebones wage to do it, enough would volunteer. Itâs not like they need to pay bigbucks, just a couple of people on the channel every day, rotating them so theyâre on it 24/7.
But that would require blizzard to admit two things: 1) their current position against the boost spam in GF isnât sufficient and 2) that currently the game is in such a state that there are MORE groups looking to sell content than people looking to run it legit. This isnât a brilliant thing to own up too if all your game design has been made into commodity so soon into an expansion life cycle.
So theyâll probably just do nothing because that doesnât require them to publically acknowledge any of it and face the players over it.
Thereâs been a system in some ARTS game, I think it was LoL, that allowed players who were meeting certain criteria to anonymously review reports and vote on whether or not it was a bannable offense.
A similar system should be easy to implement and insanely simple for things such as groupfinder advertisements to supervise.
That being said âinsanely simple to superviseâ would still require a bare minimum of effort from Blizzards side, given that at least some people would complain about getting banned.
Thereâs a ton of easy solution regarding this issue, itâs simply that Blizzard isnât willing to put in any effort.
As for the topic, Iâm using world quest tracker to blacklist any leaders that are advertising in the LFG tool, thus my screenshots will look a lot less impressive than other ones. (and Iâm not willing to clear my blacklist, sorry)
Funnily enough, the fact that blacklisting leaders works to filter most of the spam also showcases that most of the LFG spam is repeat offenders, rather than new accounts or similar, which again showcases that Blizzard is not taking any actions against people breaking their very own ToS regarding this topic.
people try to make other people feel bad about their in game status. Forum is full of douchebag responses. Those people buy boosts to then make other people feel bad, since they realised it didnt fill the void they have inside
and now we got boosting ruining the game for normal people. Its always something⌠cheaters, boosters, both⌠every single even slightly competitive game got these issues because of the sh!t mentality of our consumption society today
i have no idea why people take this game so serious, its not like it will get u laid⌠on the contrary
This was indeed in LoL - it was called âThe Tribunalâ and you could review reports that other players had made and state whether or not you thought that they had broken the rules. I think the report would also be reviewed by 4 other players and the majority would decide whether or not the reported person was punished (although Riot would then decide what the punishment would be). You couldnât see what the other users had voted for, but you would receive minor rewards at the end of the month if you had agreed with the majority for most of the decisions youâd made (which would deter people from just voting âyesâ to everything or not weighing up the choice).
Iâd be more than happy to do this for nothing at all aside from a confirmation that the offender has been punished. It is so disheartening to see from your screenshots that the vast majority of boost spamming is coming from a set of accounts that youâve blacklisted as this suggests that they are either receiving no punishments at all, or a very short muting. Presumably these are the same people that I and many others report every single day!
This is what happens when you have FOMO rewards or make the rewards too hard to get for an average player. The boosting will never stop as long as this system exists.
If they didnât fix it by now I doubt theyâll ever fix it. This is the reality. The LFG boost spams are here to stay no matter how many people report them. So I donât really see the point of this thread. A thread on the EU backwater forum isnât gonna change a thing.
