People often boost from alts so its easier to control everything if everyone has one character.
Besides, Alt’ing is an archaic system that only adds to more negative emotions and grief down the line when people need to re-farm everything just simply someone wanted to try different class. A lot of people these days are angry over it and they prefer solutions like in FF14 where you just press one button and swap to a different class.
Boosting was never legitimated because paying with in-game currency doesn’t change the fact that you are pretty much exploiting the game to get where you don’t deserve to be.
Sure you can, and I just gave you those solutions. It’s all about putting effort into better game design, stricter penalties, and more oversight from GM’s. The reason why boosting is flourishing in WoW it’s because all those things pretty much don’t exist.
Boosting in FF is minimal and only because PvP is niche and no one puts any effort into dealing with it.
So you loud mouths here should stop strawmaning like ‘it always happened’ because it always happened BUT AT MUCH SMALLER SCALE.
You claim to be a new player yet you’re here making claims about which supposedly you have no idea about.
(because, why else would people need so much gold in game???).
people litereally spend multiple millions on BMAH on singular purchases. Or even regular limited time mounts like the long boi in BFA which was 5 million gold. I’m sure there are other vanity stuff you can spend money on like transmogs n stuff but I don’t much care for those so I can’t comment on that. There are many things one may wish to spend gold on in this game. Understandable you wouldn’t be aware of that as you’re a new player.
What are my choices if I’m new player and don’t have friends?
Like someone else already replied, find people to play with. There are guilds n stuff in this game you know? Also I took a look at your video, your UI is pretty terrible and much could be improved and it would also compensate for other areas that are not your strong suit. Also who the actual hell unironically plays necrolord DH and claims to be trying their best?
You’re like the typical League player who claim they’re stuck in elo-hell because of teammates when they’ve been in silver for all of their lives. They’re not stuck anywhere because of their teams, they’re stuck there because they’re bad at the game. So they blame something else other than themselves for their own lack of skill and mistakes. Sound familiar? To move the blame onto anything other but themselves. I’ve seen it plenty having been playing since season 2 (9 years now help me) and it doesn’t get any less funny.
1.4k CR can literally be achieved by waving your hands around and drooling on the keyboard. Some of my guildies literally made a group of alts, got some welfare gear from M+ and went to PvP. Managed to get 1.8k just fine in a couple days. Trust me, while the boosting certainly is somewhat rampant, it’s still plenty easy to climb if you’re good enough at the game. Clearly, you’re not, sorry to break it to you.
I actually thought you might have a case with the boosting stuff, especially when you made a video about it. However, seeing you go ham on a geared druid during Incarn when they have Thorns up is telling enough, you’re just awful at PvP.
The others aren’t even “overgeared” you just haven’t even gotten done with getting full honor gear yet.
I watched your videos, its hilarious that you report people with similar CR to you as cheats. What a salty and bad loser you are.
“Booster on monk and undergeared pala” the pala was ret and he smashed you. Somehow the “booster” MW was why you got obliterated in his opening wings?
I don’t even know what to say. This isn’t boosters, you’re playing at the level where you belong.
I have much to say here but my posts get wiped without explanations so I’ll leave it as it is until it’s somehow resolved, have a nice day.
Apparently freedom of speech is not something that exists on these forums.
Then tell me which rule my last post from here (https://web.archive.org/web/20210816113918/https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/boosting-destroyed-the-game-good-job-bliard/307107?page=3) broke. It got removed 3 times while I was reposting it, won’t risk it further until getting some information.
I feel my posts are removed just because some mod doesn’t like my opinion. Maybe he plays Night Fae DH and feels offended or whatever.
While gathering statistics I looked solely on gear because it was statistics about gear, and “booster” meant obviously overgeared character that carries undergeared one. It wasn’t stastistics about why we lost or who killed me, it was about gear.
And yes I think boosting is wrong and gives benefits similar to cheating so why not report it.
Blizzard is definitely proud of the boosting thing, it gets them more token sales, and they don’t have to design any gold making activities anymore.
What you end up with is a lot of time wasted. Want to pug something because nobody of your friends is online? Good luck with that after a patch has been out for a month or two, because all the clueless boosted people will be in the queue with their impressive achievements and bis gear.
Not a single game in your video where you played had one booster. Not one! You’re just really bad at the game. All the losses were on you and your teammate, not gear, not boosters, etc. Comp choice is also questionable but clearly not a problem to get to 1.6k.
Setup your UI correctly, play a better comp, get pvp addons, stop mouseclicking your abilities such as spectral, and stop crying about boogeyman booster on the forum it’s clearly not a thing at your MMR.
So gear that gives ~50k hp is normal in 1.4k rating, is that what you’re saying?
And how good one really needs to be to get 1.6k which is one of lowest ranks in rated PvP? Isn’t it supposed to be easier to get?
And I’d get 1.6k already (I got 1.58k) if not for groups with boosters that are absolutely unwinnable and there’s a lot of them.
But they aren’t even boosting. You’re just flinging poop at the wall and hoping something sticks.
The one I linked you reported for cheating. Gear isn’t the issue here. The guy you lost to had nothing to do with gear and everything to do with CR. Boosters have high CR, the “booster” wasn’t the reason you lost and he might have had full pve gear.
You are losing because you are playing badly. You had a hunter and don’t open with a stun/trap combo which is 11 or so seconds for 2v1, you just mongo in, let a paladins shield of vengeance / wings gank you and cry its boosting.
What are these obviously overgeared (and overskilled!) people doing in 1.4k cr then? Helping friends? Oh and all those commercials in LFG/trade chat are COMPLETELY UNRELATED to overgeared carries in arenas ‘helping friends’, its just pure coinscidences, ok, I got you.
Gear is one of issues. If at some particular time we lost due to some mistakes it doesn’t mean we would won vs 50k booster if we didn’t do these mistakes.
It’s possible but these 50k people are also very skilled in PvP, so they shouldn’t be in 1.4k in such quantities with those skills and gear. But clearly you are ignoring that fact.
Sometimes yes, but sometimes we would win but they had too much gear so we lost anyway. Boosting just adds extra difficulty to something already difficult for new players.
I’m sorry to put it bluntly, but if you practice you’ll climb. You seem to be completely delusional as to how skilled you are. Yes, there are a lot of overgeared players in low elo, and some of them are boosters, but most of them are just PvE players. For example at 15 minutes in your video you report a warrior for being a booster when he has 46% winrate in 1400 and his highest achievement being 1550. Maybe if you didn’t trinket a 2 sec ancient aftershock stun, or at least had used a defensive afterward you would have lived. Most of your losses are because of a lack of game knowledge and not because of gear.
Selling boosts never were, what wasent allowed was gold selling. Ppl sold boosts in low lvl dungeons back in vanilla… just like mages sold portals and water. over the years ppl accumelated wealth so prices for boosts have gotten higher.
Tokens have nothing to do with it as ppl buy gold in masses even in classic that dont have tokens and are even buying items in the boosted runs they get.
Buying gold from other sites with real money aint really allowed still but in the end, blizz cant really stop it more then ban those few that get cought buying. Think it was easier back then to stop ppl from buying gold but now its so much easier to transfer money so really hard and cost inneffective to stop it.
In the end its the playerbase itself that has caused this.