I’ll not say anything. I’ll just quote patch 9.2.7 notes.
- A new chat channel for searching or advertisement of services like raiding, dungeons, or PvP activities has been added: Trade (Services).
- Developers’ note: The trade channel that’s been in the game for 18 years will continue to exist, but we wanted to add a new channel to direct messages about the request and advertisement of services like raiding, dungeons, or PvP activities. If you’re looking to buy or sell these kind of services, this is the channel for you! If you’re not interested in those, you can leave the channel and avoid the noise, or move it into its own chat tab. We believe that with this new distinction, you’ll be able to keep Trade chat for the traditional buying and selling of items and professions, and not other chatter.
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No news here. This was announced and has been known for some time,. It seems to be a broadly popular move - still allowing people to offer boosts in-game while unclogging Trade. At least, that’s the theory. We’ll see how it works out in practice.
And yes, Blizzard has always supported boosting.
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Was never against the rules to begin with. Even the head of Blizzard streamed guild boosting runs a while back and people went crazy about it. RMT is, advertisement in trade and group finder is and now cross-server communities also are. But we all know how enforced all these rules are.
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Idd boosting was never against the rules but yes people dont read i geuss
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While not against the rules. I don’t think boosting is something to be this broad and massively encouraged.
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Boosting has existed in one form or another since the dawn of online multiplayer games. I remember we would run lower geared friends, guildies and those with enough plat through PoH in EQ back in the day.
Everytime you carry a low geared guild alt through M+ or a raid, that’s a boost.
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How to be disingenuous, the post.
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When it comes to boosting the only thing Blizzard are against is boosting for real money and advertising in LFG.
Allowing boosting for gold makes them so much money.
If we’re being extremely pedantic, a boost is not the same as a carry because a boost is always a service, i.e. you pay for it.
No, a boost isn’t always a paid service, a common example that doesn’t seem to happen in WoW anymore would be boosting a low level guildie though dungeons to help them power level.
Where as you can pay for a carry through mythic raids.
Boost = carry and carry = boost.
2 words, same meaning.
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That’s a carry, not a boost.
They’re not the same meaning. I can carry a team in a battleground, it doesn’t mean I boosted it. I can carry my teammates in an arena match, doesn’t mean I’m boosting them.
Even Blizzard recognise there’s a difference between the two:
https ://us.battle.net/support/en/article/187406
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Time for an English lesson…
In English is common for a wotd to have more that one meaning and/or to be used in multiple ways.
E,g I will park the car. / The children are playing in the park.
Did you notice how both of those sentences contained the word “park”?
So yes, you can carry your team to victory but at the same time I can pay for a guild to carry me through a mythic raid, just like I can pay for them to boost me through 3v3 arenas.
So once again…
Boost = carry and carry = boost.
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That’s a boost, not a carry. You don’t pay Blizzard for a level 60 carry, you pay them for a level 60 boost.
You don’t need to give an English person English lessons, but I appreciate the sentiment.
Nope. Blizzard ToS even shows that you are factually wrong and recognises that they’re two different things.
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“Selling in-game items and services such as carries or boosting for real money is not allowed.”
The use of the word “and” in this sentence does not indicate a differential, rather it’s used to cover all bases.
If they had just used the word boost then people would absolutely use that to fall into the intellectual dishonesty of claiming “Oh, we weren’t selling boosts, we were selling carries and the rules don’t say anything about that”
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Giving a separate channel to those kind of thing its not encouraging it tbh
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If they were the same thing then ‘and’ wouldn’t be necessary. Boosting and carrying are two different things. As I said, you don’t pay Blizzard for a level 60 carry, you pay for a level 60 boost.
Then surely your ‘but they’re the same thing!!!’ applies here? It’s almost like they’re prohibiting the advertisement of two different things.
Make your mind up.
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It does, but apparently not everybody understands that 2 words can have the same meaning…
I’m going to explain this in the absolute simplest way I can then we can both get back to enduring this stupidly hot weather and not being able to sleep…
By your definition a boost is a paid service and a carry is not.
So, if say a friend asks you to run him through deadmines 30 times to help him power level then that’s a carry.
But what if you ask for say 50gold for your time?Does it then cease to be a carry and become a boost? If boosts and carries are not the same thing than just by exchanging gold has the activity suddenly morphed into something different? Or could it just be that boost and carry are synonymous with one another?
I forgot to respond to this earlier so I’ll quickly squeeze one out for you.
The use of the word boost here is the literal definition, eg to lift something to a higher position. Like a rocket uses boosters to reach a higher altitude. Like I said… More than one meaning…
This is how the word was originally used in gaming too, you would help boost friends character levels by running them through content.
Now its used to mean any activity in the game where you are…well…carried…usually at a cost, but not always, that’s the important bit.
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Words CAN have the same meaning, in this case though, a boost and a carry are not always the same thing.
Yep. Same way if some dweeb in a Mythic guild is the partner of the leader, then they run them through a full mythic clear, they’ve been carried through. If they paid for it, then they’ve been boosted through it.
Yup. WoW example: my friend comes back to the game, I run him through some arenas to get him honor/conquest and gear, I am carrying him. My friend then pays me 2 million gold to take him to 1800, I am now boosting him. He would be boosted because there’s a target goal and an amount of gold exchanged for doing so. If I just play with him til 1800 for fun, I’m carrying him to it.
Therefore…it is not ALWAYS the same as carrying because ‘boosting’ has different ways of being done. I won the argument on the level 60 boost point alone. It’s not a carry, therefore it’s not the same thing. You literally just conceded the entire argument there and then.
People who are boosted have paid for something. People who are carried have not always paid for something.
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Do you want to just call it a night? We’re going 'round in circles here and I don’t think we’re ever going to agree or change the other person’s mind on this one.
It’s pretty clear we use the terms differently, maybe my definitions are outdated, I don’t know but I promise you, way back when, whether currency had changed hands or not, boost and carry were used interchangeably.
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Yes, carry and boost = Same thing.
Stay hydrated 
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If there is boosting - there will be RMT. Deal with it.
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