New policies on boosting

Hey!

While I appreciate any efforts towards stopping exploits or things that are disruptive to gameplay, your latest policy on banning organised boosting is completely misguided and affects nobody actually harming the game. I currently have casual guild members new to classic banned from trying to earn a few gold from boosting people in Stockades. I have personally never participated in GDKP runs or organised boosting, but Blizzard’s approach for 15+ years has always been that this has been well inside what’s considered acceptable. GDKP has been a staple of WoW on Korean servers for ages and it’s literally impossible to argue that paying 5000 gold for a DST is disruptive to gameplay if everybody agreed to the rules beforehand.

The policy has always been that anything that arises from ingame issues should be resolved by ingame measures if possible. You don’t get to have a GM fix things for you if your alt gets ganked and camped in STV. It’s on you to try to kill that player. The GM comes into play if things get abusive or escalates to anything outside the game.

What truly is disruptive to gameplay is having thousands of accounts indexing the AH, buying out every single stack of silk cloth, copper ore, mithril bar or whatever to then relist it at x1.20 the price one piece at the time using addons. The APIs that allowed this have repeatedly been attempted broken in retail and we even got a patch to resolve people essentially taking down servers by playing the game as an economy sim.

Please put your efforts into getting rid of the myriad of bots cleaning out every single useful herb within an hour of the latest ban wave or try to do something about the AH goblins quite literally breaking the game like you did in retail. Boosting people in stockades, getting someone to 1500 rating for gold or GDKP runs just isn’t remotely a threat to the game or disruptive in the same way.

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Level boosting competes with Blizzard service Character level boost.

Probably the reason why boosters were banned.

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No.
This is not what the rules ban.
Like, not even remotely.
Try reading what they actually say.

Sadly they do not bann ppl boosting others in Strat/SP/SL etc. However they shoudl get banned for spaming and they should get like a 1month first time, 3 months second time 6 months 3d time and then permanent if they keep spaming their garbage in trade and general chat. But that is just my opinion.

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