Yeah good luck executing that. Will you prevent organized boosting like we currently have? Yes. Will you prevent boosting in general? Hahahahaha. No.
Alas we already have this policy at least for the LFG tool or rather the exact same policy Square has announced 4 days ago. And it was aimed at their party finder btw and mainly an intend to combat RMT. They havent outlawed boosting in its entirety because its impossible to do so effectively for a number of reasons.
Boosting in general is impossible to fully rule out. It will always happen to some degree. Itâs the organized boosting via huge communities that needs to be tackled for it to minimize disruption. And the wow token plays a big part in that too by incentivizing people to make use of this.
It needs execution of the rules that are put in place. In WoWs case throwing the bann hammer 24/7 on anyone that posts advertisement in the LFG tool. FF14 doesnt have any more rules than that either.
It plays a role yes, but people would boost anyway because gold being a thing and you can easily burn vast amounts of gold even without turning it into a wow token.
In FFXIVâs case, party finder was the main route for people to sell these carries. In WoW, thatâs the trade chat. Iâd say, both of them should be prohibited.
Which is good, instead of legalizing it as Blizzard did with the WoW token. Thatâs how you make a problem unable to be tackled by the roots. I agree with you the execution of rules that are already in place needs a lot more work, yeah.
Boosting is a trade. Ergo the channel intended for trade transactions is used. FFs party finder is the equivalent to our LFG tool and there it too is prohibited. However it wouldnt stop the market from flourishing given boosting is also a thing in pretty much any game including FF and Classic. The latter also having no tokens and still its boost infested.
More or less. Its not the classical RMT because the currency you gain from it is absolutely worthless outside of the House activision-blizzard. Yes people can buy gold for euro but even if nobody buys the tokens for euros/pounds/whatever you could still turn your gold into b-net currency with ease even if the price for a sole token would be subject of incredible price increases. And the people prospering from boosts wouldnt care one bit.
You cant tackle the roots anyway. No one is capable of determining what classifies as a boost and what doesnt. At best you would only make it harder for the communities but far from impossible from doing it.
Even still, you can very significantly reduce the impact it has on the game by just having a strict policy on it and not legalizing/idly sitting by. Instant perm ban for all the NOVA spammers in trade chat, thatâs already a big step forward. I see your points but Blizzard should think in terms of what they can do instead of the limitations. The reason FFXIVâs community is so positive about how SE tackles the issue is because the devs show they care about the issue and are actively taking a stance to combat it, whereas we barely hear from Blizzard (and then we see things like the co-lead selling boosts on his own social media).
Up for debate. As i said you wont be able to stop it. There are ways around it.
I agree that Blizzard should reach out to the communities and tell them turn the spam down or face consequences for anyone involved in boosting for a condemned community. But banning advertisement in trade in general is not the way given that never broke the rules in itself in the first place. Especially not if people just want their âpoop chatâ channel back (which in itself was a violation of the Rules) rather than getting a new one (like a general city chat across all cities like trade).
The stance isnt the issue. The actual enforcement of the rules is. Something FF has yet to prove to do so effectively and justly.
Blizzard has a stance regarding advertisement outside of trade. However the enforcement of said stance and its rules is absolute dogpoop.
Thats not really an argument. Boosting in itself is not prohibited and it also isnt the problem. Especially considering Ybarra being in a reasonably high raiding guild and a raiding guild boosting is really nothing new given the gold they potentially pour into a tier alone during progress. Because unlike Ion hes actually capable of playing the game.
But yes we barely hear from Blizzard on that i agree and its annoying. I also dont think that the requirement to have an authenticator to be able to post custom messages in the LFG tool is going to be very effective instead of having 3 people per language stalk the tool 24/7 and bann away on sight given the communities would burn their advertise accounts eventually.
Sure, remove the trade chat and bring a general global chat back. It seems to be the general concensus anyways here. Even if a chat could be toxic at times, anything that promotes social interaction within an MMO beats mindless robotic spam by level 10 alts. Starting with 9.1.5 they are going to be more transparent on player reports, so such a scenario would hopefully be less likely to exist as well. If any boosting communities still use it as their advertising go-to, just ban any offenders. Problem solved (as you also said yourself).
You could say these things, but I think itâs absolutely a conflict of interests which also blends in to their stance being part of the issue. The boosting/boost ad spam has been an ongoing hot topic and instead of acknowledging that (like Yoshi-P/SE have done), to sell boosts on your own social media which you also use for work/updates on the game has disappointed a lot of people who have understandably lost faith after Blizzard already fails to enforce their existing policies. Itâs unprofessional to say the least, considering the context. Him being in a raiding guild does not really matter, considering his position, that isnât the highest priority when it comes to this game (although it is obviously good that devs do play themselves).
But youâd still get mindless spam by level 10 bots if you removed the token and tried to ban trade from the trade channel. The reason I installed the badboy addon all those many years ago wasnât because of boost spam it was because of all the other tired spam in the teo main channels /1 or /2.
Remove the token and weâre back to the mindless gold selling spam that used to infest the game.
As for FF14 a quick google search shows that there are plenty of websites out there which will sell you FF14 currency for real money.
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