How to deal with Boost selling spam

You can start by getting your backside out of the city and into the world, so that you will get no trade chat

That is your opinion and you are entitled to it. Trade is for trading gold for services or goods. So they are in the right place using the right channel and I’m very happy for them to stick to one place for it so I can avoid it.

The reporting rule breakers in LFD feels very underwhelming. They need to make the punishment more impactful to deter these people.

This is how I see trade. It’s a huge shame boosting took control of the channel. Then again, I guess most of the people using it, are boost interested people, while the rest of us got pushed out. There is absolutely no point trying to use that channel for anything else anymore anyways.

I really don’t see why it would be a problem to have a boosting channel, solely intended for boosting. Just like trade channel is seperated from general chat.

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Except if they are spamming. There are multiple boosting communities who have several different lvl 1 characters spamming trade chat with the same message all day long.

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Do people complain about “spam” when people chat in Trade? I have been playing on a certain realm and it’s either boosting messages or normal chatting usually (sometimes your "WTB"s or "WTS"s).

I just wonder if there are people out there rallying for shutdown of normal chatter like the boost spam revolt.

PvE boosts will be decimated if blizz Ban rio addon

Ever wondered why there is so much boosing services, why they become a indursty? Answer is simple, rio become cancer in WoW, it littelary turned game into second job, people have hard time to get in groups if you dont have score, so for dozens of people easiest way is to buy the score. Rio is reason of boosting service flourish when we speaking about PvE

What to blame for PvP boosting service flourish?
-OP meta classes which can easy carry someone in 3s… People usualy buy a boost because they cant get in groups, Its hard to find PvP group because payerbase for PvP is low. Overal same as in PvE, when people have hard time to find group they will resort to buying a boost. This is our reality.

It would be better to have a advertise board that the boost community’s could write their offers and just have ONE post per community! Boosting is not that bad thu, they help players for pure gold so that is a trade just like buying gear/mounts in AH. Not all have the time to get to endgame!

Yes but some didnt realize this and defending then like they were always here since the beginnings of the game (which is not true at all, cos the 1st major boosters appeared in mop cos challange mode dungeon rewards, and rise up in WoD Hc Archimonde only boosts).

Only those defend it who see gold/irl from it.

Imagine if a new players arrive in a city and see these wall of text spammers. If i for example start the game right now, my first option would be to delete the game.

Blizz wont forbid this, he is the laughing 3rd behind the scenes.

Ok, let me help you OP:

You downloand and install the BADBOY addon;
Then you install the CC Cleaner for BADBOY;
You sort the words you want blacklisted;

drink a cold beer and enjoy life.

Happy days.

I started off on July 1st and I was not very disgusted, frankly. Only ignored it and went on about my day. As a new player I had no expectations for what a trade chat in a game I haven’t played before would be like.

So the solution to not be able to play X content is to buy a boost in which you won’t play X content anyways???

I’ve just resorted to dragging the trade chat to its own tab. There’s only two types of messages you see in there anyway: Boosts, or random offensive banter.

They wont.
All they care about is making millions of $$$ from them.

won’t the spam end when pre-patch launches anyways so fixes problem ?

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People should spend more of their game time actually playing the game, instead of sitting afk in cities and watching the trade spam

In my guess, they gonna change: “Book your spot advance in x content!”

Would still happen in any old discussion too. People would like to voice their own opinion in their words :slight_smile:

Ever asked yourself why people siting AFK?
-finding group for PvE = gruesome, time consuming process if no desired rio
-finding grp for PvP = low playerbase, people got mindset to leave after one lose, time consuming and gruesome, and even if you somehow manage to get grp, PvP is infested with meta setups.

So if you are average guy in WoW , what else u can do than AFK, unless you swipe your card and buy a boost? In past i disliked and disrespected people who buy boost alot, you know what? today no one can blame them, social situations in game is dramatic, and it littelary telling people “go buy boost”.

Try badboy with ccleaner.

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/badboy_ccleaner

/leave 2 when first visiting a city on a new char, report any messages like it in other channels for spamming and hope the reviewing blizzard employee is having a bad day so they ban for once. This game is wasted ‘sell’ wise, why BUY your way into progress? This whole game experience is about ACHIEVING something yourself.

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