Nothing stops you from ordering from a guild or your guild.
Literally stop being a clown and get over it.
Who said hes talking about himself? He is still not wrong. Those groups will show up as no one can observe them and in case they manage to scam you âthe old fashionedâ way they are in the clear as Blizzard has proven times and times again that they wont help you in such a case.
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So now all that plays on low/mediums servers will move to high realms becouse they canât find any boosts, is this really the best solution?
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Oh so this random mythic DK suddenly became a mary sue when his way of making gold has been compromised? Cry me a river.
Iâm not one to buy boosts, if you want to risk it all the power to you, ask the top guilds on your realm for boosts if youâre that desperate or inept to clear content.
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This is a good step, however, they should go further and ban boosting altogether, even though I donât see how thatâs possible (what constitutes a boost ? What if you help a friend then they help you back with gold, etc).
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I⌠think I appreciate this, but fundamentally think that this is not the right approach, and I think this approach has been taken because Blizzard donât like the right approach due to their greed - and Iâm going to call it greed because I actually donât think their policy is improving their bottom line, though Iâm sure they think it does.
I donât think thereâs a problem with buying stuff for gold from another player, whatever it may be as long as it is wholly within World of Warcraft. I donât think thereâs a problem in advertising this just as thereâs nothing wrong with advertising items or crafting services, either, though I do think these corporatising and spam-advertising is definitely way over the line.
The fundamental problem weâve got here is the WoW token and real money trading. Thatâs what allows this to go around; most players who buy boosts do it because they donât want to do the progression themselves, and if you donât want to do that, thereâs a good chance you donât want to farm gold.
So what you do is you buy WoW tokens and then buy boosts for the gold.
Meanwhile, on the other side, the boosting communities are giving people gold obviously, but also subscription time, mounts, pets, and other goodies - all within the rules of course. Some even go further and pay you real money.
And then all that gold gets fed back into the people buying the boosts because theyâre buying the tokens that gives the Blizzard balance to the boosting communities that allow this, thus giving gold a real life exchange rate, inflating the prices because itâs easier to earn money than to earn gold for a good chunk of the worldâs population, making the game more expensive and therefore less accessible, spamming us, and causing various other problems.
So what Iâm saying to Blizzard is: All of this is a result of the WoW Token and I think youâre cutting too broadly in order to maintain that source of income, which by the way I expect to be heavily diminished by this move if you enforce it, in order to justify a business practice that is corrosive to your product.
Also, all you people saying âWell I can just sell a piece of Linen Cloth for 600,000g and then offer a boost as a free serviceâ are completely out of your mind. Everybody can see that thatâs a transaction with two legs (or steps, if you will). Itâs going to be matched and it will be considered one transaction. Theyâre not that stupid - nobody is.
Maybe next step of Blizzard will be to finally unlock back all fields in non-custom groups? So Iâll be able to make my own groups, and not only join othersâ ones, because I donât want to use authenticator.
But that means they should ban mike ybarra and his friends too 
and you know thatâs not gonna happen
Yes please tell me more about my guildy and how you know him so well. Please go on im highly curious. No really. Go on. Chop chop.
He is not a âmary sueâ but is pointing out what many have already pointed out is going to happen. As this is something we had happening before the rise of the boosting communities.
Come on if you want to insult at least do it properly.
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We already know they have double standards anyway. Just looking at a certain real money trader.
What are you saying is so sick and WRONG that itâs good if someone will scam them
because this game is meant to be played
not pay to obtain stuff
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Good change, my mum said this was bad
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He isnt saying âgief us back dem boosting ploxâ but pointing out that this bad thing also covered another bad thing. The point in the end is that this is something Blizzard should have adressed before or at least have to adress now as its inevitable to happen.
Stay mad.
Good thing they can always edit a few lines of text and have a solution for whatever comes next.
Then they should have banned boosting all together. This just keeps boosting in but makes it worse for everyone.
I donât think boosting itself is even what this change is aimed at. It just happened too much. Boosting was too accessible and that in turn invalidated in game achievements. Now boosting will happen less, which I believe is the only purpose of the policy change
Why is it worse for everyone?
Just boost with your guild/friends ON YOUR REALM instead of giving 10-40% cut to a random person that might be selling the gold on a website.
Not really this only will be Bad for people who were used to buying boost on weekly or daily basis
Does this mean Boost Buddies will no longer be helping thousands of people? 
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