Does it mean that boosting for gold is also over?

All you people cheering Blizzzard for this change or even writing complete crap like “Blizzard is pushing people to get better” are either hypocrites or plain stupid.

Besides nothing going to change the situation we are in is Blizzard’s fault and Blizzard’s fault alone. All they do is fighting the effects of what they caused by making their game, almost two decades after its release, as alt-unfriendly as they possibly can.

The currency spam, the rating slavery, basicly nothing being account-wide etc etc. The grind you have to do again and again which every character, even if you did it with no matte how many chars already. Why would I want to do the same crap over and over again for every character? And although they pretent to listed they tend to do the opposite. Remeber the KSM change? Yeah right…

But for new players it’s even worse. And if you don’t believe, which I know you won’t, just watch what Asmongold and Venruki had to say here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eWmr6w0JjM

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Assuming this change of policy is enforced this means there won’t be a structure in place to recruit boosters, no announcers spamming trade chats across multiple realms and overall less boosts offered altogether.

It won’t magically get rid of boosting, but it’ll make it harder to both boost and get boosted. Which is already a step in the right direction.

At least it should guarantee you that boosters can only boost on their realm, drastically reducing the number of boosters on the market.

Cuz people want the best things to be given for free with little to no efforts no matter how irrelevant the later tiers are in term of performances. Thus playing the game to get the gold needed over time is strictly out of question.

That kinda playerbase, I won’t miss them.

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I honestly think this will backfire in so many ways.

  • below average players on small realms will complain about how inaccessible content became in the blink of an eye
  • buyers of boost will be charged a much higher price on realms where its still viable to boost because guilds can now charge more for the same service. This will ironically make the illusion of the game being p2w more close to reality
  • inconveniencing a large amount of players (both buyers and boosters) because theres a very vocal minority against will cause more problems than it solves

This risks dumbing down the game because the people that would normally buy a very cheap boost will now cry their eyes out that they are locked out of doing stuff even sooner than before. All this and more, whilst at the same time not actually removing boosting from the game.

I will however concede that it’s good because this at least will silence all the tinfoil hats that honestly believed that Blizzard used boosting as a money-maker for tokens.

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this is true, but with server amalgamations will be negated.

you can only charge what your server players can cope with, so it wont make a jot of difference. I can charge you 1 million euro for a glass of water or you can go next door and get it for 2c, which are you going to buy.

inconvenienced booster, oh noes thats very bad … well, great for everyone but hey.
players who boost dont end up staying in games anyway, theyre just magpies flitting from one low hanging fruit tree to the next. noone will miss them

Hopefully big world first guilds will be prevented from boosting cross-realm. Since they´re basically de facto boosting communities at this point.

Apart from pleasing the community it is difficult to understand exactly what is now prohibited.

What is clear is that “excessive” advertising is forbidden. But first, define “excessive” second we have seen how effective Blizzard is in reducing advertising (aka not at all).

As for the prohibition of “cross realm” organization it is difficult to define precisely what this means. As long as you allow players from different realms to do a raid or a dungeon together and you allow boosting how can you actually stop people from “organising” such activity ? At best it means they can’t communicate together using in game chat and have to use third party messaging to organise it.

i think you can still boost, whats not allowed anymore are these big discord community boosters. small groups of people and guilds can still boost for gold. i wouldnt be surprised if the cost for these boosts will go up significantly now

Let’s entertain today’s Daestra’s personal attack to see if it holds merit. You effectively say that COVID is terrible and you got offended that I called trade chat spam that makes everything unreadable and annoying something similar to COVID so effectively you make no sense because if you find COVID so vile then why do you find vile someone that also calls vile something by using the characterization of COVID?

Don’t answer; it’s just a rhetorical question; it appears your true purpose isn’t to make sense but you saw someone’s nickname and got angry and you had to personally attack them even if it made no sense.

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Still offtopic and breaking CoC and personal harrasment please stop.

Good riddance

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It’s written that you can still offer your boosts but on a lower scale. Only guilds or your mates (4 team) without a community right?

if that were true, all 67mill of you should have it by now xd

This doesn’t stop boosting though, it’ll just be sold by individuals and guilds instead. I’m sure they’ll reclaim the space vacated by Nova - at least on the biggest servers.

UK Summary | Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK (data.gov.uk)

Before you try and belittle somebody and make fun over covid maybe read up some stats.

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nope just means the big sellers will create guilds on every server, this does nothing and blizzard knows that, its just a pr move

Sry to say it. People Will not get better. They Will leave wow and play other games.

I mean if you had read it you would know that guilds and teams and individuals can still sell those services for gold…

It’d take ~2 years for everyone to get infected at a 100k/day steady rate with a population of 67mill.

With the implication that 100k/day is a recent development, your math is a little bit off.

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